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=Book 1: The Battle for Gobwin Knob=
==Intro==
[[Ruler|Overlord]] [[Stanley the Plaid]] is conducting a military campaign to quest for the [[Arkentool]]s – [[artifact]]s of ancient power left behind by the [[Titans]] who created the [[Erfworld]].

Stanley controls one of these tools, the [[Arkenhammer]], but his quest for the others seems to have been costly and unsuccessful.

==Day 1==
The story opens{{erf|1|001}} with [[the Battle of Warchalking]] fought by the forces of Stanley the Plaid and [[Marbits]]. The battle ends in defeat for Stanley, when Stanley's last living warlord – [[Manpower the Temporary]] – is killed in battle.

Stanley's chief adviser [[Wanda Firebaugh]] convinces him to purchase an expensive [[Summon Perfect Warlord Spell]] as a last-ditch hope to prevent defeat.

Stanley insists that Wanda cast the [[Spell]] herself (ignoring her attempts to explain that she specializes in [[Croakamancy]] and the spell requires a [[Findamancer]]).

==Day 2+3==
After getting the spell from the magic kingdom,
Wanda summons [[Parson Gotti]] from a gaming session in his apartment on Earth into the Erfworld{{erf|1|016}}, where he is to serve as [[Chief Warlord]] to Stanley.

Meanwhile{{erf|1|021}}, [[Prince Ansom]] of [[Jetstone]] is leading a massive [[Royal Crown Coalition|coalition]] toward Stanley's capital, [[Gobwin Knob]], hoping to destroy Stanley's [[side]] forever.

One of Ansom's [[warlord]]s, a female [[barbarian]] [[Jillian Zamussels]] (who is Ansom’s love interest) flies on a scouting mission.
As soon as she leaves, Ansom sends a squad of heavy ground units led by warlords [[Sir Webinar]] and [[Dora]] to follow her as emergency backup.

Jillian is captured by Stanley's forces and taken to Gobwin Knob, where Wanda interrogates her. Their interactions suggest that they are romantically or otherwise intimate.

==Day 4==
After concluding the interrogation, Wanda, confident of her emotional domination of the prisoner, plans to deliberately release her to be found by [[Webinar]]'s squad and become a bait for [[Ansom]].

Expecting [[Ansom]] to personally lead a rescue expedition, [[Wanda]], [[Stanley]], and [[Parson]] plot an ambush. The trap fails when [[Vinny Doombats]] of [[Transylvito]], one of Ansom's warlords, persuades him to remain behind although Ansom moves with the flying units to the head of the column.
In addition, he contacts [[Charlie]], a powerful [[Ruler]] and a [[mercenary]], and hires three of Charlie's [[Archon]]s from him to reinforce [[Webinar]]'s group.

During this time, [[Parson]] has been learning the battle [[Erfworld Mechanics|mechanics]] of Erfworld and has planned an attack on the coalition.

==Day 5==
Taking advantage of the enemy column's lack of air cover, Parson sends a force of [[dwagon]]s to make hit-and-run raids. They surgically target heavy [[Siege engine|siege]] units, which are critical to Ansom's attack plans, and then retreat.

After the raids, Vinny's scout [[doombat]]s discover a ring of dwagons in the forest near the column. Inferring that this formation has been deployed to protect the attacking dwagons until they heal the next turn, Ansom assembles a force to punch through the far side of the ring (its weakest point) and finish them off while they are still wounded and vulnerable.

Ansom's force fights its way into the circle, and finds nothing inside. The ring formation is a trick (in fact, the wounded dwagons are hovering over a nearby lake, out of reach of enemy ground units). Ansom considers his options for salvaging the situation. In the hope of saving the remaining siege units, he orders Jillian to lead the air units in a hunt for the wounded dwagons.

Jillian begins to carry out the search as ordered. However, she deliberately sends Webinar, Dora, and most of the slower flying units on wild-goose chases and leaves them behind. Then, she declares that she is abandoning the mission in favor of heading directly back to Ansom's position to help him escape from the dwagon ring. One of the Archons confronts her with the question of whether her actions are the result of being under a spell just as they find the group of wounded dwagons.

Meanwhile, Stanley and his advisers monitor the situation from the situation room at Gobwin Knob, using a battlefield command-and-control display generated by three mentally linked spellcasters: a [[Lookamancer]], a [[Thinkamancer]], and a [[Foolamancer]]. Parson worries that Jillian's group is getting too close to the wounded dwagons; however, Wanda insists that Jillian will not attack. [[Sizemore Rockwell]], another of Stanley's [[caster]]s, warns that the [[Suggestion Spell]] on Jillian might break if it requires actions (such as ignoring enemy units) that are too difficult to rationalize away. Wanda angrily dismisses his concern.

Face to face with the wounded dwagons, Jillian is unwilling to attack, and flounders for a reason to avoid doing so. [[Jaclyn]], one of the Archons, presses her for a decision to either attack, switch sides, or quit. Under this pressure, Jillian overcomes Wanda's [[Spell]] and sends a message to Ansom declaring her hatred for Stanley and love for Ansom. She then leads her force in an attack.

Parson directs a focused counterattack, ordering his forces to "croak, not capture" the enemy warlord. Wanda objects, but Parson and Stanley are unswayed.
However, Ansom comes to Jillian's rescue just in time, with Vinny in tow.
With these reinforcements, the dwagons are routed and destroyed.

Stanley is enraged over the loss of the dwagons and will not listen to Parson's attempt to suggest a new plan of attack. He decides to take his last stand back into his own hands and orders Parson, Wanda, and Sizemore out of his sight.
As they leave (with Parson carrying Wanda, who is in a state of shock), he sends a command to recall all of his surviving forces to Gobwin Knob, and orders the three casters to break their link.

==Day 6==
Parson decides that he has to risk Stanley's wrath and convince him to attack the enemy leaders. Before he can do so, he finds that the surviving dwagons (from the decoy ring) have returned to Gobwin Knob. Stanley takes them, along with the Foolamancer and the top three units of the [[Knights in Stanley's Service]], and departs the city.

Parson is left as sole commander of the limited forces remaining at Gobwin Knob, which he must rally in a final stand against Ansom's vast coalition.
Parson goes to the situation room and finds that [[Misty]], the Lookamancer, was killed by the severing of the link.

While examining the tunnels under Gobwin Knob, Parson learns from Sizemore, Stanley's [[Dirtamancer]], that they were designed for mining rather than defense, and can only be collapsed to a limited extent before bringing down the entire city.

During this conversation, Sizemore describes Stanley's rise to power. Originally a common piker, Stanley was promoted to warlord. He then found and was attuned to the Arkenhammer, enabling him to tame dwagons.
The battles he won as a result impressed then-ruler [[King Saline IV]], who made Stanley his Chief Warlord and [[Heir Designate]].
After a [[gobwin]] rebellion resulted in Saline’s death, Stanley, who was away on a mission at that time, returned and succeeded Saline as the [[Ruler]], but in his case he is an Overlord because he is not [[Royal]].

As Ansom's forces approach Gobwin Knob, Jillian surmises that Stanley has fled and requests permission to pursue, but refuses to explain where he went or how she knows. After her request is denied, she tells her story to Ansom in person.
Jillian had been the [[heir]] to the small, hidden [[Kingdom of Faq]].
Unhappy with life at home, she led mercenary expeditions to supplement Faq's treasury.
While on a mission, she got a message describing a massive dwagon flight over Faq, and then found her status changed to barbarian. Continuing to take mercenary jobs to support herself, she learned that Stanley was a likely suspect in the attack.
This was confirmed the first time she was captured by Stanley's forces, and encountered a [[caster]] from Faq, who turns out to be Wanda Firebaugh, working for Stanley.
After this explanation, Ansom agrees with Jillian's conclusion that Stanley is headed to the ruins of Faq with the intent of making a new start there.

==Day 7==
Parson then begins putting his new plan into motion. He directs Sizemore to lead his [[golem]]s in an overwhelmingly strong attack against the furthest-advanced [[Marbit]] scouts in the tunnels, ignoring all other forces. This ploy should lead Ansom to believe that the tunnels under the city are mostly unguarded. Parson consults [[Maggie]], the Thinkamancer, who tells him that Wanda will probably recover eventually, but not yet.
Parson then has Maggie put him in direct contact with Charlie, and offers him a deal. Charlie takes a friendly tone, but declines to damage his reputation by changing sides in mid-conflict. After Maggie tells him that she has the stamina to send only one more [[Thinkagram]] this turn, Parson contacts Ansom and deliberately goads him, scoffing at royalty and declaring that Stanley's attunement to the Arkenhammer and Ansom’s failure to attune to his [[Arkenpliers]] shows Stanley to be Ansom's "superior".

However, this goading is unknowingly interrupted by Stanley. The Foolamancer was mentally damaged by the severing of the link, and has been unable to cast a proper [[Veil]]ing [[Spell]] to help Stanley evade pursuit. Stanley contacted Maggie to see if she can help with the problem. She suggests addressing the Foolamancer by his proper name to restore his sense of self. Unfortunately, neither she nor Stanley knows what his name is.

Ansom dispatches a force of air units, led by Jillian and Vinny, to hunt down Stanley. Jullian is instructed to break [[alliance]] with Jetstone at the end of the day and re-ally with the Translyvito and Charlie. This will give them a late-afternoon [[turn]] that day and an early-morning turn the next day, thus giving them a double move before Stanley can get any further. They plan to catch on Stanley and intercept him in a narrow mountain pass leading to Faq.

Ansom then sends a force of Jetstone units led by Webinar and Dora into the tunnels, believing (thanks to Parson's earlier ruse) that he has found an undefended path to the main city garrison.

Jillian leads her forces directly over Gobwin Knob, buzzing the Tower of Efdup. She confronts Wanda, who has partially recovered from her collapse. After Jillian declares her intention of hunting down Stanley and freeing Wanda from his service, Wanda activates the tower's anti-air defenses. This strikes down several [[Unipegataur]]s and Jaclyn the Archon, but spares Jillian herself. The intruders retreat, and Wanda heads down to the courtyard to [[uncroak]] the fallen enemy units, providing Gobwin Knob with a small air force.

That night, Parson discusses plans with Sizemore and Wanda. Sizemore is very unhappy about fighting, not because he fears death, but because he does not wish to kill. However, he accepts that he has no real choice. Wanda intends to go after Stanley and rescue him, but is dissuaded when Parson explains that he has made a deal with Charlie. Freed of his Jetstone alliance by Ansom's turn order exploit, Charlie is bowing out, avoiding a new alliance with Transylvito by making them an unacceptably expensive offer. Without the Archons reinforcing the enemy, Stanley will be able to survive on his own.
The next day, Parson's turn does not begin at dawn as usual. Instead, a large number of Archons arrive in Gobwin Knob airspace, and Charlie offers to hire Parson and extricate him from the siege. Parson declines, and convinces Charlie to stand by and await the outcome of the battle with Ansom's forces.

==Day 8==
When Parson's turn does begin, a box of [[Luckamancy]] Charms appears, along with the final piece of a [[Parson's Sword|sword]]. The back of the box indicates that the items that have been appearing in his [[Stupid Meal|meals]] to date (a pair of [[3D Glasses|glasses]] that let him see unit stats, a [[Mathamancy Bracer|bracer]] that interfaces with his calculator watch to compute battle odds, and the previous pieces of the sword) are there to correct flaws in the [[Summon Perfect Warlord Spell|summoning spell]] and make Parson the "Perfect Warlord" he was originally supposed to be.

Parson learns from Wanda that the Foolamancer's name is [[Jack]], and has Maggie contact him in an attempt to get him to convince Stanley to return to Gobwin Knob with the dwagons. However, Jack does not seem to understand. Stanley, Jack, and the rest of the group continue on until they reach a choke point, where Jillian, Vinny, and a force of Transylvito warlords and bats wait in ambush. Transylvito warlord [[Caesar Borgata]] leads the assault, planning to make up for the departure of the Archons with a large quantity of bats reinforced by warlord bonuses.

Stanley fights his way through, and closes with Jillian, who stayed in the rear as a backup. Jillian and Jack recognize each other, and after Jillian addresses him by the name Jack snaps out of his derangement. He uses his illusions to help Stanley escape.

Finding himself with only a half dozen of his original 30 dwagons and still on the wrong side of the choke point, Stanley is convinced to abandon his plan and head back toward Gobwin Knob.

Back at the city, Parson sends a large force led by Sizemore into the mining tunnels under Gobwin Knob to repel Ansom's underground attack. Hidden traps are activated and badly damage the Jetstone units. Sizemore himself is confronted by Webinar and Dora. He re-animates one of his defeated golems, who then squashes the two Jetstone warlords. With the loss of their leaders, the invaders are routed. Sizemore then seals the tunnels against further incursion, and Wanda reanimates the fallen enemies from this underground conflict to make an army of [[uncroaked]] soldiers, which Parson will use to protect the outer walls of Gobwin Knob.

The sight of uncroaked former Jetstones defending the walls of Gobwin Knob increases tensions within Ansom's coalition and outrages Ansom himself to the point of launching a one-man assault on the walls. He cuts a swath through the uncroaked horde with the Arkenpliers, until Wanda leads her flying uncroaked units against him. Ansom loses the Arkenpliers and is knocked from his flying carpet, falling to the city walls. He desperately offers Charlie a new alliance, and one of the Archons presents him with a set of "amended" terms, which he grudgingly accepts.

The Archons then disintegrate Wanda's flying uncroaked forces, including the unipegataur she was riding, and she falls down. Ansom recovers the Arkenpliers and confronts Wanda, but she is rescued by Sizemore and his golems.

As the attackers breach the outer walls of Gobwin Knob, Parson has his units stage a fighting retreat into the garrison, and moves his headquarters from the tower to the dungeon beneath the city.

Wanda leads uncroaked infantry in a dance fight and at first gains upper hand against coalition troops pouring into the courtyard as they lack units capable of dance-fight.

Ansom counters that with a Dance Dance Revolution-style dance relayed to his troops by Charlie's Archons, which gives his forces a massive bonus and leads them to victory.

Ansom seizes the courtyard and Parson relays through Charlie a desire to personally surrender to victorious Ansom atop the tower parapet. Parson gets his [[twoll]] lackey, [[Bogroll]], magically disguised as himself and sends the twoll to surrender in his place. Ansom realizes the trick too late and the twoll tackles the prince off his flying carpet. Ansom and the twoll fall from the height of the parapet in front of the entire coalition army, and both get croaked - Ansom by the fall and Bogroll by the enraged coalition forces immediately after.

Parson follows his assassination of Ansom by ordering Sizemore to collapse all the mining tunnels beneath the city, completely destroying Gobwin Knob and many coalition units within its walls.

This rack and ruin is insufficient for victory though as too many coalition forces remain alive. Parson retreats with the casters into the portal room in the dungeon to discuss the desperate final plan. Gobwin Knob is built atop an extinct volcano, and Parson orders Maggie, Wanda and Sizemore to make it erupt. The casters use magic to link the minds of Wanda the Croakmancer and Sizemore the Dirtmancer, and with their combined skill they uncroak the volcano.

The plan succeeds and the eruption devastates the coalition, annihilating all besiegers who entered the city and those in the surrounding hexes. Charlie attempts to treat with Parson, but he refuses and escapes with the casters through the portal to the [[Magic Kingdom]].

Elsewhere, surviving Transylvito warlords and Jillian discuss the news communicated to them by the Transylvito Thinkamancer.
The coalition is dissolved, and Jillian and Vinny are devastated by the news of Ansom’s death. Caesar Borgata wants to claim Faq for his side.

Parson and the casters return to Gobwin Knob early next day to find a scene of utter ruin. The coalition is erased and the terrain itself changed.
Sizemore shows Parson that he has discovered a fortune in gems exposed by the volcano, while Wanda finds the Arkenpliers in the ruins and attunes to them.

Parson muses on the death and destruction that he caused and wonders if that is what he dreamed about. Wanda tells him that it is the world that wanted him, not the other way around, as she digs up Ansom’s corpse.

Meanwhile, Stanley receives a call from Maggie and gets updated with the situation in Gobwin Knob. He decides to get back home immediately.

==Day 9==
Gobwin Knob's turn starts at dawn, and Parson concludes that there are no enemy troops in vicinity. Wanda reanimates Ansom with the Arkenpliers, and the result is different from the usual uncroaked: Ansom appears lifelike and has his memories and intellect basically intact. However, he now sees things from a new viewpoint and wishes to help Parson conquer Erfworld.

Wanda uses the Arkenpliers to reanimate the whole army of croaked units as lifelike "decrypted" units. Describing how she knew that she would one day wield an Arkentool, she reveals that she had led Stanley to Faq. She had underestimated him, believing that he would be defeated and thereby deliver the Arkenhammer to her. Instead, he sacked Faq, and Wanda turned to his side and maneuvered him into questing for the other Arkentools.

=Summer Updates=

See also: [[Descriptive Table of Contents/First Intermission]]

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_1 Day 1]==
* Gobwin Knob is rebuilt, [[Stanley]] returns, talking and [http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_7 fireworks].
* Stanley [http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_9 decides] to conquer back his lost cities, [[Ansom]] gets promoted to chief warlord, [[Parson]] gets to 'manage' GK.
* [[Jillian]] [http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_10 moves] with the Transylvitan warlords towards their capital, [http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_13 visiting] [[Aqua Velva]] on the way.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_22 Day 2]==
* Parson chats with Charlie. Charlie guesses about the volcano-spell.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_18 Day 3]==
* Jillian meets [[Don King]], talk about Royalty and [http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_21 rebuilding Faq].
* Parson, Maggie and Sizemore have a [http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_23 picknick], with lots of talk and discussions.
* Parson [http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_27 tries to leave the city], and to [http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_32 ride a dwagon], both unsuccessfully.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_33 Day 4]==
* Led by Ansom and Wanda, GK's army reaches the first city to conquer, [[Warchalking]].

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_35 Day 8]==
* Parson finds something useful to do for Stanley: collect [[dwagons]] in the minty mountains, using [[Archons]] as scouts.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_36 Day 11]==
* Parson talks with [[Jack]] on his daily tour of the city, wondering about some useless buildings in the city.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_37 Day 18]==
* [[Vinny]] visits Queen Jillian in the newly rebuilt [[city of Faq]].
* (Charlie takes a picture of GK's army conquering [[Orgchart]].)

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_38 Day 19]==
* Parson starts to study strategy, using Jack as a battle simulator.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_39 Day 20]==
* (In the morning, some units of Charlie were defeated by GK)
* Charlie contacts Parson, Charlie spends another battle-calculation.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_40 Day 23]==
* Jetstone troops led by Prince [[Ossomer]] arrive at [[Dhrystone]], Prince [[Tramennis]] meets him there and tells that [[Ansom]] has changed sides.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_41 Day 24]==
* [[Charlie]] contacts [[Jillian]], proposes to become her secret ally against [[Stanley]].
* [[Parson]] sets up a [[dwagon]]-express. (Exact date not known)

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_42 Day 29]==
* Ansom has a meeting with Stanley in GK, talk about conquering Unaroyal and Jetstone.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_43 Day 31]==
* After a parley with GK, Queen Bea of [[Unaroyal]] decides to destroy her side and write [[Don King]] a letter, giving information about the decrypted army.
* (Empty capital of Unaroyal gets captured by GK)

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_44 Day 38]==
* Parson talks with [[Maggie]] on his daily tour, discussing routine work, Wanda, and sex.
* Parson has a conference with some of the [[Archons]], learns details about them and [[Charlie]].

==Day 40==
* ([[Carpool]] captures the city of [[Carport]], croaks 2 of Transyvito's warlords during the battle)

==Day 42==
* ([[Jillian]] 'visits' the neighbor kingdom [[Jitterati]], attacks the cities [[Kona]] and [[Valdez]], and captures the warlord [[Duncan Scone]].)

==Day 45==
* ([[Jillian]] starts to produce a royal heir. Accelerated by her [[turnamancer]] [[Vanna]], this will only need 40 turns instead of 60.)

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_47 Day 52]==
* [[Caesar Borgata]] has barely won a battle against [[Carpool]] over the small town [[Chocula]].
* The town most likely was set up as a trap for [[Transylvito]]'s [[warlord]]s.
* [[Caesar Borgata|He]] reports via [[thinkagram]] to [[Bunny]], who turns out to be his [[:Category:Relationships|love-interest]].
* [[Transylvito]] is now producing a heir.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_48 Day 54]==
* [[Parson]] chats with [[Charlie]] again. [[Ansom]] has tried diplomatic contacts.

==[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/First_Intermission_49 Day 55] (64 [[AW]])==
* [[Jillian]] goes on a mission.

=Book 2: Love Is a Battlefield=

==Issue 1: Meet the Jetstones==

===Day 1 (75 AW)===
* [[Gobwin Knob]]'s turn
** [[Ansom]] meets with [[Ossomer]] and [[Tramennis]]

* [[Royal Crown Coalition]]'s turn
** ...

==Issue 2: It's Raining Men==

===Day 1 (75 AW) continued===
* [[Royal Crown Coalition]]'s turn continued
** ...

=See Also=
*[[Descriptive Table of Contents]]

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|class= [[Knight]]
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|special= [[Flying unit|Flying]], random: [[Dance-fighting]], [[Leadership]], [[Shockmancy]], [[Thinkamancy]], [[Dollamancy]], or [[Foolamancy]]
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=Proposed Canon=
'''First Appearance:''' [[TBFGK 42]]

A [[humanoid]], [[knight|knight-class]], [[flying unit]] first seen in the service of [[Charlescomm]]. They all appear female, and their standard [[raiment]] is much like that of an airline stewardess from the 1960s. They have random special [[Unit#Natural_Abilities|natural abilities]] from a set comprised of [[dance fighting]], [[leadership]], and spells from the schools of [[Shockmancy]], [[Thinkamancy]], [[Dollamancy]] and [[Foolamancy]]. They gain additional abilities from that set as they gain levels. When preparing for [[dance fighting]], they have dressed in a 1950s dance style. When off duty, they have been known to wear very little.

Archons are intelligent and have names (such as [[Jaclyn]], [[Ginger]], [[MaryAnn]], [[Patty]], [[Maxene]], and [[LaVerne]]). Archons with spellcasting capacities are not true [[Caster]]s: their abilities are referred to as natural magic, for example natural foolamancy.{{blog|2009|07|summer-updates-007}} However, they use [[Juice]] just like normal casters. They are also possessed of significant tactical and administrative skills. Archons bring powerful combat and support spells to their employers. Some Archons are able to detect the presence of spells that influence [[Unit]]s, including but not limited to [[Suggestion Spell]]s and [[Veil]]s; they can also identify what's being Veiled.

[[Decrypted]] Archons retain their ability to cast, unlike [[uncroaked]] Archons.

Non-Decrypted Archons have a minimum [[Upkeep]] of 200 [[Shmucker]]s and high-Level ones close to 500 Smcks per Turn.

==Known Abilities==

Archons each have one special from the following list, and gain more as they level. Spells that Archons are known to have cast are in parenthesis:
*[[Dance-Fighting]]
*[[Dollamancy]] (Limited)
*[[Foolamancy]] (Limited, have used DDR tricks and "Fireworks display" {{blog|2009|07|summer-updates-007}})
*[[Leadership]] (associated with DDR spell)
*[[Shockmancy]] (Limited. Displayed Blast/energy spells, flash mob)
*[[Thinkamancy]] (Limited, have displayed ability to use [[Thinkagram]]s)

==Known Users==

[[Charlescomm]] - They're Charlie's main unit and carry out nearly all of his contracts to other sides, as well as serving as his personal intelligence network. There are roughly 600 of them working for Charlescomm, 20% of them are in the capital and the rest abroad. Charlescomm can pop archons quickly, at 1 per turn or 3/2 turns with a turnamancer, maybe due to the Arkendish.

[[Gobwin Knob]] - after undergoing [[decrypted|decryption]]. Following the [[Battle for Gobwin Knob]], Gobwin Knob has 28 decrypted Archons in its ranks. At day, they scout nearby hexes for newly popped wild dwagons that Stanley can tame; at night they return to their sorority-like quarters at the top of the [[Tower of Efdup]].

It is known that other sides can produce archons, but they have not been specified.

==Known Archons==
*[[Jaclyn]] - Destroyed
*[[Patty]], [[Maxene]], and [[LaVerne]] - Fate unknown
*[[Ginger]] and [[MaryAnn]] - [[Decrypted]]
*[[Hilary]] - [[prisoner]] of [[Haggar]]
*Avril, Brittany, Lindsay, Paris, and Miley - 3 of the 5 [[croaked]], remaining 2 likely escaped.

=Speculation=

As non-[[Caster]]s, Archons would likely not benefit from [[Link]]ing and are likely not permitted in the [[Magic Kingdom]], so they do not belong to the [[Thinkamancy|Thinkamancer]] conspiracy. However, Archons capable of [[Thinkamancy]] probably do have at least a limited, perhaps unconscious, ability to perceive and manipulate [[G Strings]], since the manipulation of said strings is the basis of all Thinkamancy abilities. It may be that the Thinkamancers hostility towards [[Charlie]] is based on a fear that the growing numbers of Archons which Charlie is working to create will eventually damage the [[G Strings]].

Under [[Charlie]], Archons are [[mercenary|mercenaries]]. Given that both the [[Arkenhammer]] and [[Arkenpliers]] have special [[Unit]]s associated with them ([[dwagon]]s and [[decrypted]] respectively), it is likely that Archons have some special relationship to the [[Arkendish]]. As such, they may be overpowered (ie. unbalanced) relative to normal units of their type, or perhaps the power of the Arkendish enables Charlie to transmit his leadership bonuses to them.

They know more about Charlie's secrets than most, but do not know all, most having never met him; the decrypted archons answered some of Parson's questions about him.{{blog|2009|10|summer-updates-046}}

Their changing "outfits" when preparing to dance-fight is likely an effect of their natural [[Foolamancy]], though the change of [[raiment]] suggests their natural [[Dollamancy]]. {{blog|2009|10|summer-updates-046}} Foolamancy could also explain the 3 archons' blasts as being the same Shockmancy spell despite their different appearances. An alternate explanation would be that they randomly had access to different combat spells.

The [[decrypted]] Archons put on a giant fireworks display. This could have been [[Shockmancy]] (a damage [[spell]]) or [[Foolamancy]] (a spell that looked like it could damage, but couldn't), or even a combination of both. Assuming it was both, a majority of the 28 Archons had at least one of the two; since there are four other possible specials and they are earned randomly, the average level of these archons would be 2 or 3. Unless they were hand picked for Shockmancy to be the best possible combat troops, which is unlikely given that Erfworld's system is based on multipliers, and the other abilities improve allies' performance.

It may be that Archons are able to lead stacks. Their Leadership ability suggests the ability to command, and Charlie's free-ranging assignments require a good deal of initiative, unless Charlie uses his 'unmatched' command of Thinkamancy to give them orders.

==Speculative Abilities==
[[Dollamancy]]: Creating cloth [[golem]]s.

=Real World References=

[[Charlie]]'s Archons are a reference to a television series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels Charlie's Angels] featuring 3 young women working as private investigators for their boss, Charlie, whose face is never seen on screen. The first appearance of a trio of archons{{erf|1|042|The Battle For Gobwin Knob}} shows them in the iconic silhouette pose from that show's title card ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charliesangels.jpg see Wikipedia]).

Archons are a race of heavenly outsiders analogous to angels seen in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) Dungeons & Dragons] roleplaying game. The term "Archon" replaced the term "Angel" used in the earliest versions of D&D: this choice was made in response to complaints that the game's depiction of angels was disrespectful toward religious belief. ("Demon" and "Devil" were also renamed to purely invented terms in response to complaints that the depiction of demons and devils encouraged occultism.) Recent versions of D&D have quietly restored the original terms as these issues became less heated.

Connecting the two Real World References leads to the following progression: "Charlie's Angels" becomes "Charlie's Archons" under the marketing decision of TSR.

The Archon Jaclyn is likely named after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaclyn_Smith Jaclyn Smith], the actress who played the role of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Garrett Kelly Garrett]. [[Ginger]] and [[MaryAnn]] are the names of characters from the television show Gilligan's Island. [[Patty]], [[Maxene]], and [[LaVerne]]'s names are those of the Andrews Sisters, a famous American singing trio. The most recent batch of Archons are all American teen stars - mostly pop singers and one heiress, Miley (Cyrus), Paris (Hilton), Avril (Lavigne), Brittany (Britney Spears), Hilary (Duff), and Lindsay (Lohan).

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|name= Leather Valese
|race= [[Transylvito Vampire]]
|faction= [[Transylvito]]
|class= [[Warlord]]
|special= [[Leadership]], [[Unit#Natural_Abilities|Flight]]
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=Proposed Canon=
''"That is a turf fight we are never gonna settle."''

'''First Appearance:''' [[TBFGK 104]]

Valese is a Male [[Transylvito Vampire|Vampire]] [[Warlord]]. He has black hair and wears a white shirt and black slacks.

He was one of the Warlords sent by [[Don King]] to help [[Jillian Zamussels]] and [[Vinny Doombats]] in their attempt to stop [[Stanley the Tool]] from reaching the [[Kingdom of Faq]]. He was also part of [[Jillian Zamussels|Jillian's]] 'Royal Escort' back to [[Transylvito]], along with [[Caesar Borgata]], Vinny, and [[Dewy Tulips]].

==Real World References==
"Leather" is an unusual first name, making it likely that this is a reference to the character of "Leather Tuscadero" in the series "Happy Days," particularly since Tuscadero is an Italian-sounding surname which would fit the Italian-American theme of Transylvito. Other Transylvito characters have made references to "Happy Days."
The name is a pun for a leather bag (valise), such as one might keep a large amount of money in.

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=Erk's [[Eyebook]] Page=

==Page Annotation==
Do you think you could integrate your project into the [[Page Annotation]] project? -- [[User:Muzzafar|Muzzafar]] 20:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
:Ok. Have a nice day! -- [[User:Muzzafar|Muzzafar]] 20:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
: I [[Category_talk:Page_Annotation#Annotation_Integration|created a section]] for discussing how to integrate the annotation projects, can you please have a look when you have time. --[[User:Doran|Doran]] 21:32, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

==Manpower==
I guess you could ask first and move the page after. It is a collaboration project after all. -- [[User:Muzzafar|Muzzafar]] 20:31, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
:It is ok. Yes, this wiki is quite active. There was a period of rapid growth in number of articles when users tried to add as much information as possible. I suppose now is a good time to start improving quality of what is already here. [[Style Guidelines]] are under discussion and you are most welcome to add "Naming convention" section there and come up with your suggestions on the talk page. We are all reasonable people and readily accept good ideas. -- [[User:Muzzafar|Muzzafar]] 20:47, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

==Crop==
Not sure if it is much use for your project, but I created a [[Template:Crop|crop]] template. I guess it depends on which takes longer uploading all the files or working out the x/y coords to do a crop. Also, not sure how reliable it would be over multiple browsers. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 20:36, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
: (Reply to message on my Talk page) Thanks, the main issue is how well it is supported by multiple browsers. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 14:29, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
:: (Reply to message on my Talk page) True, it might improve load time for multiple pages. Btw, is there any easy way to debug templates? It seems you can't use the preview option as it isn't updated at that point. I save the update and then try it out on a random page, but that creates alot of clutter. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 15:07, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
::: Unless you have objections, I am going to replace the first 20 panel by panel pages with the crop method, so that they are the same. I am thinking of creating a page by page version of the panel by panel pages, and that will need an image for each page anyway. (Also, it helps with load times) --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 12:28, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

==Links abounding==
Erk, can you cut down on the number of links you're adding? Pigeon? Walnut? If someone doesn't know what a pigeon is, we're not responsible on this site for telling them. You're creating a boatload of dead links. They're hiding all of the real work that needs to be done. --[[User:Kreistor|Kreistor]] 03:39, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Draconian? Only in that I'm removing any links that don't go to pages you haven't created. In short: don't create links to pages you are not intending to create in the next couple days because it hides honest bugs in other people's work. If you want a Snake page, then take the 3 minutes to create it as you need it, or reasonably soon after: right now, it looks to me like you don't intend to create any of the links to the literally dozens of pages you're dead linking to, since you haven't created a single one so far. Don't create a plethora of links and hope that someone else agrees with your opinion that it deserves to exist. If you want it to exist, then create it. Slow down, create the pages that you're linking to, and be a completionist. Creating 9 dozen links to pages that no one intends to create is definitely making work for everyone else, because sooner or later, someone will have to do what I have.

Look, I understand you want to take on this massive panelization project, but don't use it to make us do things you want us to do. Just slow down on the main project, complete the pages, and then no one will have problems.

Before I got interrupted on Sunday, I created dozens of pages to take the Needed page from 90 to under 50, and 45 of those were Annotation Pages, leaving 5 pages left, all having to do with one person's pet project, so I was done. Quite literally, I've been creating all of the pages that people have been dead linking to. Your project, if you stay on the panelization part solely, will take you a couple months. In the first few days, you created 90 new links. That's an absurd amount of work to pass on to anyone else. If you intend to create those pages, the months delay from the completion of this probject to beginning to create all those pages is jsut too long to wait as we work on making this Wiki look, feel, and appear professional. How many thousands of links are you going to have at the end of this? That's too long to leave these links hanging for. Since you're not creating them, and I'm not creating them... there's not many left that are willing to: everyone else has their little projects going on, and they aren't providing that service. So, you do it, or I do it, or you stop complaining about me killing what neither of us are going to do.

Oh, and "Summon Perfect Warlord" is under "Summon Perfect Warlord Spell", BTW.
--[[User:Kreistor|Kreistor]] 19:28, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Erk, right now is the time when most people need the most help in figuring out how to do this. By flooding the "Needed" page, not only are you making it hard for other people to debug their projects, but you're making it overly daunting for anyone wanting to get in and help to determine what really needs the help.

And I will point out that it is YOU that is deciding whether something should or should not exist. By putting all of those links in, you're saying that those pages Need to be done, because they appear on the Needed page, and everyone that comes to help will be pointed at that page. If they see a list of 382 items (like there are right at this moment), they're going to throw their hands in the air and not even try, because it is simply too daunting a task.

I'm not going to take any accusations from you as to how I'm playing this, Erk. You're stomping in here like an elephant, just as I finished making the Wiki look usable. You're undoing massive amounts of my work, and creating me huge problems in trying to keep this place organized. You're taking no criticism to heart, and continuing to act like a bulldozer, ignoring all feedback. I have played nice. I 'have' created some of those pages you wanted, just as I've destroyed links to others that no one ever will. That's a compromise position: I am trying to work with you by giving you the amount that can be done for you. Your turn to compromise. Get with the program and be a team player, and stop planting a ton of work on my lap. Learn where I've linked your old work to, so that I don't have to go in and repeat myself another 160 times, because we already have pages for 95% of the links your dead linking, just not under the naem or place you might think obvious to you. Figure out what really needs doing. 'Create your Categories.' Finish ''all'' the work you decided to take on, not just the one part that you find fun. We all have to work together here, and you're being ignorant (by not learning where we're linking you to) and pigheaded (by not compromising in any way). In short, if you don't want me stomping all over your pages, then take the time to figure out how to do it right the first time. Then I won't have to, will I?
--[[User:Kreistor|Kreistor]] 20:05, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Congrats on figuring out this isn't your old Wiki. We've already done several weeks work here. You're trying to bring something over that needs to integrate into what we've already done, not decide that what we have is wrong and needs to changebecause you're too lazy to fit it in yourself. No, you don't get a blank slate to work with anymore: if you wanted that, you needed to start a couple weeks ago before we'd gotten in gear. We have a framework we need to operate inside at the request of Rob (Canon, Proposed Canon, Speculation). We've completed 95% of all that needs to be done, and we're ready to go with his escalation of great quantities of rules to Canon. It's ready to go live, complete enough to answer the vast majority of questions. So, no, your assumption that you can walk in and expect everything to conform to your old way is just not correct. You're going to have to work with us, and use what we've already got. That this was elsewhere before is not important to ''me''. That it works ''here'' is important to me. So, help make it work here, with what we have, not with what your old Wiki had. Now, I don't know why you did this project, or why anyone thinks its necessary, but I'm not going to get in your way of you putting it on. All I need is it integrated into our work. So show me a sign that you're working with us, here. Toss me some kind of bone that shows me you're going to clean up the mess you've created. Otherwise, my unkind hands are going to rip into it in the same way they already have, because it needs integration.
--[[User:Kreistor|Kreistor]] 20:33, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

==Paneller==
Made a mod to your template. This allows each piece of text and description to be made into their own page. This will allow full strip annotations to be created from your snippets. Thus the guys doing the annotation section won't have to redo all your work. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 18:13, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
: Ok, I have created a Lister template for the page annotation pages. ((Lister|page number}} will format the text for inclusion in the page annotation pages. See [[Erf0001]] (the only 1 updated)
: I am thinking of modifying the paneller template so that it can accept either of the 2 types of images.
: For example ((paneller|18|14)) will use File:TBFGK 18-14.jpg and ((paneller|18|14|tx|ty|bx|by)) would use File:TBFGK 18.jpg and the crop option using the coords given
: Sound reasonable? (I don't want to be hacking your template :) ) --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 19:21, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
: Oh and also, do you think it is worth updating the set so that they can take "TBFGK" as an input so that book 2 can be supported by using a different piece of text? --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 19:24, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
:: Ok, I have got crop and paneler to work together, centering the image took ages as the clip function has to use absolute coords. I cropped [[TBFGK_7:1]],by trial and error. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 21:32, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
::: I viewed page 20 from work (slower connection than at home) and it looks like you were right. The image in 20:1 takes longer to load, but then 20:2 to 20:16 all load instantly, as the image is already cached. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 10:18, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
:::: I have uploaded page 21-29 and setup the cropping. 28 doesn't split very well for the first 3 panels, due to it being clip art. Btw, any plans on how to handle pages like 37a. I assume we will be sticking with the archive numbers anyway? If so, the paneler script will need to be modified to handle strings as the page name, which may cause issues with the arithmetic. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 02:19, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
::::: I updated the paneler template so that it accepts a number of panels input. Also, it now use ifexists to determine the number of panels in the previous page. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 12:23, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::: Thanks :p. I think the lister template is usable now for the page by page stuff, though might leave it until there is agreement with the guys who created the erf00x pages. Doran's suggestion on making editing easier have improved it I think. --[[User:Raphfrk|Raphfrk]] 17:31, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
:::::: The fight scene look pretty good. Look at [[TBFGK_69:1]]

==Earth vs. Real World==
I changed your references to "Earth" to "Real World". We've stuck to that term on other pages. There's a fairly good reason: Earth, in fantasy, is often an element like Water, Fire, and Air, and at the least is synonymous with dirt. It may be that Rob will stick to Dirt and Erf, but we should leave the option open so that we don't have confusion in case he does choose to use it. Further, Real World distinguishes our world from Parson's version of the world. He'd call the fictional world he lived on Earth, just as we would. This allows us to distinguish our Earth from his.
--[[User:Kreistor|Kreistor]] 03:57, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

==The Stat block==
How'd you get that? I will help you start this trend! [[User:Xewleer|Xewleer]] 4:06 May 9, 09
-Thank you!

== Fortune Cookie ==

Being as you were handing out some fortune cookies, I've made you a template for them [[Template:FortuneCookie/doc]]. Enjoy! --[[User:Ichthus|Ichthus]] 08:00, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

ErfWiki talk:SpamWars

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==So You're Not An Ad-Men and You Want To Fight Spam==
Just a few things for all the new spam-fighters: first, we already have a tag to slap on the spam-bots and their pages. Just hit 'em with '''[ [ category:spammer ] ]''', and they'll show up on a page we've already made for it.

Second, we've been having a few waves of what I've been calling "Cheerleaders". They'll hit random pages, and either insert or replace content with meaningless fluff like "OMG ur so smatr" Rather than mark the page for deletion, if you could just tag the spammer in their user:talk page and undo the edits, that'd be great.

Third... thank you so much. The more people who help, the easier this becomes. --[[User:No one in particular|No one in particular]] 15:53, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

==Captchas & Filters==
* STrRedWolf here from Stalag '99. You should add the ReCaptcha plugin to MediaWiki, which cuts down on 99% of the spam. I'm using it on my Canmephian Library Wiki.

* Archaic here, webmaster of Bulbagarden / Bulbapedia, founder of the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, and a big fan of the comic. Heard you're having some spam issues, so I checked what some of our network partners are doing in dealing with similar issues. I see you've already got ConfirmEdit and SpamBlacklist, but you might want to consider using QuestyCaptcha for your ConfirmEdit, it makes it a lot stronger than the math questions. Just base the questions off the comic and you should be good to go - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha
Also consider getting the following extensions
Abuse Filter: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
AntiSpoof: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof
Title Blacklist: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist
TorBlock: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock
::The AbuseFilter extension seems most useful for the spam you guys are getting. You could prevent non-autoconfirmed accounts from creating pages that consist of a title followed by an external link, which seems to be the form of all the recent spam (spotchecked in recent changes). Someone'd hafta' brush up on their regex, though. Pages that contain the regex <code><nowiki>==<center>\[[A-Za-z0-9/_:\.\?+] <big>'''[A-Za-z][A-Za-z\s]*'''</big></center>==</nowiki></code> ''might'' work, you'd need to double-check; it's a first shot.
::Other items that seem like they'd help are building some tags users can use to notify admins when things need to be deleted. Something simple like {{[[Template:Delete|delete]]}} would work best, which categorizes pages into, say, [[:Category:Pages to be deleted]]. Anything besides the category is somewhat optional, but a box at the top where they can put in a reason for deletion would also help. I'd suggest ripping code out of similar Wikipedia templates for the boxes. Cheers, everyone. [[Special:Contributions/184.36.87.8|184.36.87.8]] 14:38, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
:::Me and Rpeh both wrote up the template at the same time. I saved mine over his, even though it's much uglier and crappier, 'cuz it seemed like he just stole the code from Wikipedia's <nowiki>{{db-meta</nowiki>}}, which wouldn't work all that well without the other templates it builds off of. So, template and category are working, use them as you all like. Cheers. [[User:Lifebaka|Lifebaka]] 15:21, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
::::I went back to the previous version. I took the code from [http://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/index.php?title=Template:Delete here], not directly from Wikipedia. The version I copied doesn't use anything from WP so there's no problem with it. [[User:Rpeh|rpeh]] •[[User_Talk:Rpeh|T]]•[[Special:Contributions/Rpeh|C]]•[[Special:Emailuser/Rpeh|E]]• [[Category:Signature templates|rpeh]] 15:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

* I don't have the webmastery credentials that these other guys do, but I just wanted to point you [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features here] for info direct from MediaWiki on fighting spam, in case you haven't seen it yet. Also, I strongly suggest not permitting anonymous editing (such as I'm doing here). --Dachannien

* Solutions we use over at wiki.pcgen.org - We locked down Editing to Logged in users only - that was the first step; second step was to make it so you had to request a user account from an admin. Spammers were getting to be too annoying to allow open editing or even open registration. We got tired of killing new accounts.

This is for media wiki 1.6

# Prevent new user registrations by anyone

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

#Restrict anonymous editing / tools showing

$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

# Stop anonymous editing

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

# Anonymous users can't create talk pages
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createtalk'] = false;

# Anonymous users can't create pages

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

: That would appear to be a huge overreaction. If people can't even create accounts you're going to lose 99% of your potential editors. [[User:Rpeh|Rpeh]] 14:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

== Spam Solution ==

We had exactly the same spam problem on the [http://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/ Oblivion Mod Wiki] and the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#FancyCaptcha FancyCaptcha] module for ConfirmEdit stopped it dead. Try that one. [[User:Rpeh|Rpeh]] 14:35, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

*Ever though of making registration mandatory (with some captcha/others) for edition? --An unregistered user

== Suggestions from MediaWiki's page on combating spam ==

MediaWiki has a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam page on combating spam]. Some of the good suggestions from that page:

* Add a spam regex using wgSpamRegex, including any content that should not appear in a valid page; this includes markup used only by spammers (such as any attempt to hide links, or many types of HTML formatting), and keywords and phrases used only by spammers.

* Use the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ConfirmEdit] extension, to force a CAPTCHA on any users attempting to add a new external link, as well as users attempting to register a new account. It looks like this wiki may already do that, using SimpleCaptcha, but you might want to use one of the stronger CAPTCHA modules, as I strongly suspect spammers have automated ways to solve SimpleCaptcha. Try MathCaptcha to make it use images, or ReCaptcha to use that external service. I'd recommend against using QuestyCaptcha, as it only seems to support a fixed list of questions, which won't stop spammers for long.

* Use an IP address blacklist of known spam IPs, which tracks spammers from other wikis and forums.

--[[User:JoshTriplett|JoshTriplett]] 02:33, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ can give an indication of whether an IP address has a track record of such behaviour as comment spamming. It is dynamic, not a static blacklist, which is better practice. Feeding data back to such projects can also be a deterrent to spammers.

== A couple of other ideas ==

Consider whether your page content actually needs to contain URLs at all. Intra-wiki links can be done with wiki tags, so if external URLs are rare in your content then blocking page edits which create pages containing them may be more useful than annoying. Humans are good at reading a partial URL and putting it back together, but it defeats any benefit for a link-farmer if their bots can't create URLs that are accessible to a search-engine spider.

Use your robots.txt file to make it harder for link-farmers to benefit. Putting the NOFOLLOW meta tag on your wiki pages will also keep Google from giving link credit for them. Most of the spam is badly behaved robots trying to impress Google's well-behaved one - you can't control the badly behaved bots directly, but by keeping better control of the well-behaved ones you can remove their prize.

N.B. The current robots.txt set-up means the spammer still wins even when you "delete" a spam page. You're allowing search engines to index your page history pages, including the old revision with the spammer's full text. Similar issue for page excerpts on "recent changes" page.

: Note, however, that spammers will continue spamming regardless of whether their spam has any benefit. --[[User:JoshTriplett|JoshTriplett]] 06:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Unlikely to persist forever. In my experience there are two rewards - search engine rank and feeling superior to the site owner. When both dry up, there are plenty of other targets out there. Resources are not infinite for the spammers any more than they are for the defenders. They can certainly afford to waste some and to use some on spite, but they're not really any less concerned with utility vs futility of their actions than the defenders are.

All your current spam contains this string: MjE3fHwxMzA0MTQ1NDIzfHwxOTUyfHwoRU5HSU5FKSBNZWRpYVdpa2k

This may be the tag that (when a spider reaches the site that is the object of the spam) confirms the origin of the successful link-spam. Such mechanisms are used to help automate the process - sites that allow spam to generate hits can be automatically re-used for the next spamming cycle and sites that generate no hits drop from the list.

After a few hours of rapid reversal of these spams, the link farming has been replaced with a human vandal. This is not uncommon as while the spammer is investigating the reasons behind a fall in productivity they often meddle to test the environment, for amusement or spite and to muddy the waters and confuse the defenders. This phase does not generally last very long before some automated actions resume, or the spammer decides not to bother with this target further.

Signs of automation of vandalism: change descriptions set to a random alphabetic sequence involving capital letters. Clearly distinguishable from patterns formed by keyboard-bashing, which tend to cluster around the home keys and have a high incidence of repetition. This is often the final phase of the encounter, but without technical or policy changes the site will eventually be found again.

Some of the latest addresses are interesting: 91.143.58.1 (AS41822) seems to belong to honest-to-badness criminals. It's running an open proxy on port 80, also.

The phrases used in the vandalism are now beginning to repeat. Blocking those distinctive phrases would reduce the success rate during the vandalism phase drastically.

First change of signature string for the money-maker spams, now: OTN8fDEzMDQxMzc0NDJ8fDE5MDZ8fChFTkdJTkUpIE1lZGlhV2lraQ

And then straight back to the earlier signature again. The named spamming accounts each post at least one spam and there seems to be a backlog of quite a number of such accounts which haven't yet posted. It would be wise to keep them muzzled - you're unlikely to see the end of this if the link-farming machinery keeps scoring hits.

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==So You're Not An Ad-Men and You Want To Fight Spam==
Just a few things for all the new spam-fighters: first, we already have a tag to slap on the spam-bots and their pages. Just hit 'em with '''[ [ category:spammer ] ]''', and they'll show up on a page we've already made for it.

Second, we've been having a few waves of what I've been calling "Cheerleaders". They'll hit random pages, and either insert or replace content with meaningless fluff like "OMG ur so smatr" Rather than mark the page for deletion, if you could just tag the spammer in their user:talk page and undo the edits, that'd be great.

Third... thank you so much. The more people who help, the easier this becomes. --[[User:No one in particular|No one in particular]] 15:53, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

==Captchas & Filters==
* STrRedWolf here from Stalag '99. You should add the ReCaptcha plugin to MediaWiki, which cuts down on 99% of the spam. I'm using it on my Canmephian Library Wiki.

* Archaic here, webmaster of Bulbagarden / Bulbapedia, founder of the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, and a big fan of the comic. Heard you're having some spam issues, so I checked what some of our network partners are doing in dealing with similar issues. I see you've already got ConfirmEdit and SpamBlacklist, but you might want to consider using QuestyCaptcha for your ConfirmEdit, it makes it a lot stronger than the math questions. Just base the questions off the comic and you should be good to go - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha
Also consider getting the following extensions
Abuse Filter: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
AntiSpoof: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof
Title Blacklist: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist
TorBlock: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock
::The AbuseFilter extension seems most useful for the spam you guys are getting. You could prevent non-autoconfirmed accounts from creating pages that consist of a title followed by an external link, which seems to be the form of all the recent spam (spotchecked in recent changes). Someone'd hafta' brush up on their regex, though. Pages that contain the regex <code><nowiki>==<center>\[[A-Za-z0-9/_:\.\?+] <big>'''[A-Za-z][A-Za-z\s]*'''</big></center>==</nowiki></code> ''might'' work, you'd need to double-check; it's a first shot.
::Other items that seem like they'd help are building some tags users can use to notify admins when things need to be deleted. Something simple like {{[[Template:Delete|delete]]}} would work best, which categorizes pages into, say, [[:Category:Pages to be deleted]]. Anything besides the category is somewhat optional, but a box at the top where they can put in a reason for deletion would also help. I'd suggest ripping code out of similar Wikipedia templates for the boxes. Cheers, everyone. [[Special:Contributions/184.36.87.8|184.36.87.8]] 14:38, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
:::Me and Rpeh both wrote up the template at the same time. I saved mine over his, even though it's much uglier and crappier, 'cuz it seemed like he just stole the code from Wikipedia's <nowiki>{{db-meta</nowiki>}}, which wouldn't work all that well without the other templates it builds off of. So, template and category are working, use them as you all like. Cheers. [[User:Lifebaka|Lifebaka]] 15:21, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
::::I went back to the previous version. I took the code from [http://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/index.php?title=Template:Delete here], not directly from Wikipedia. The version I copied doesn't use anything from WP so there's no problem with it. [[User:Rpeh|rpeh]] •[[User_Talk:Rpeh|T]]•[[Special:Contributions/Rpeh|C]]•[[Special:Emailuser/Rpeh|E]]• [[Category:Signature templates|rpeh]] 15:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

* I don't have the webmastery credentials that these other guys do, but I just wanted to point you [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features here] for info direct from MediaWiki on fighting spam, in case you haven't seen it yet. Also, I strongly suggest not permitting anonymous editing (such as I'm doing here). --Dachannien

* Solutions we use over at wiki.pcgen.org - We locked down Editing to Logged in users only - that was the first step; second step was to make it so you had to request a user account from an admin. Spammers were getting to be too annoying to allow open editing or even open registration. We got tired of killing new accounts.

This is for media wiki 1.6

# Prevent new user registrations by anyone

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

#Restrict anonymous editing / tools showing

$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

# Stop anonymous editing

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

# Anonymous users can't create talk pages
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createtalk'] = false;

# Anonymous users can't create pages

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

: That would appear to be a huge overreaction. If people can't even create accounts you're going to lose 99% of your potential editors. [[User:Rpeh|Rpeh]] 14:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

== Spam Solution ==

We had exactly the same spam problem on the [http://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/ Oblivion Mod Wiki] and the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#FancyCaptcha FancyCaptcha] module for ConfirmEdit stopped it dead. Try that one. [[User:Rpeh|Rpeh]] 14:35, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

*Ever though of making registration mandatory (with some captcha/others) for edition? --An unregistered user

== Suggestions from MediaWiki's page on combating spam ==

MediaWiki has a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam page on combating spam]. Some of the good suggestions from that page:

* Add a spam regex using wgSpamRegex, including any content that should not appear in a valid page; this includes markup used only by spammers (such as any attempt to hide links, or many types of HTML formatting), and keywords and phrases used only by spammers.

* Use the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ConfirmEdit] extension, to force a CAPTCHA on any users attempting to add a new external link, as well as users attempting to register a new account. It looks like this wiki may already do that, using SimpleCaptcha, but you might want to use one of the stronger CAPTCHA modules, as I strongly suspect spammers have automated ways to solve SimpleCaptcha. Try MathCaptcha to make it use images, or ReCaptcha to use that external service. I'd recommend against using QuestyCaptcha, as it only seems to support a fixed list of questions, which won't stop spammers for long.

* Use an IP address blacklist of known spam IPs, which tracks spammers from other wikis and forums.

--[[User:JoshTriplett|JoshTriplett]] 02:33, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ can give an indication of whether an IP address has a track record of such behaviour as comment spamming. It is dynamic, not a static blacklist, which is better practice. Feeding data back to such projects can also be a deterrent to spammers.

== A couple of other ideas ==

Consider whether your page content actually needs to contain URLs at all. Intra-wiki links can be done with wiki tags, so if external URLs are rare in your content then blocking page edits which create pages containing them may be more useful than annoying. Humans are good at reading a partial URL and putting it back together, but it defeats any benefit for a link-farmer if their bots can't create URLs that are accessible to a search-engine spider.

Use your robots.txt file to make it harder for link-farmers to benefit. Putting the NOFOLLOW meta tag on your wiki pages will also keep Google from giving link credit for them. Most of the spam is badly behaved robots trying to impress Google's well-behaved one - you can't control the badly behaved bots directly, but by keeping better control of the well-behaved ones you can remove their prize.

N.B. The current robots.txt set-up means the spammer still wins even when you "delete" a spam page. You're allowing search engines to index your page history pages, including the old revision with the spammer's full text. Similar issue for page excerpts on "recent changes" page.

: Note, however, that spammers will continue spamming regardless of whether their spam has any benefit. --[[User:JoshTriplett|JoshTriplett]] 06:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Unlikely to persist forever. In my experience there are two rewards - search engine rank and feeling superior to the site owner. When both dry up, there are plenty of other targets out there. Resources are not infinite for the spammers any more than they are for the defenders. They can certainly afford to waste some and to use some on spite, but they're not really any less concerned with utility vs futility of their actions than the defenders are.

All your current spam contains this string: MjE3fHwxMzA0MTQ1NDIzfHwxOTUyfHwoRU5HSU5FKSBNZWRpYVdpa2k

This may be the tag that (when a spider reaches the site that is the object of the spam) confirms the origin of the successful link-spam. Such mechanisms are used to help automate the process - sites that allow spam to generate hits can be automatically re-used for the next spamming cycle and sites that generate no hits drop from the list.

After a few hours of rapid reversal of these spams, the link farming has been replaced with a human vandal. This is not uncommon as while the spammer is investigating the reasons behind a fall in productivity they often meddle to test the environment, for amusement or spite and to muddy the waters and confuse the defenders. This phase does not generally last very long before some automated actions resume, or the spammer decides not to bother with this target further.

Signs of automation of vandalism: change descriptions set to a random alphabetic sequence involving capital letters. Clearly distinguishable from patterns formed by keyboard-bashing, which tend to cluster around the home keys and have a high incidence of repetition. This is often the final phase of the encounter, but without technical or policy changes the site will eventually be found again.

Some of the latest addresses are interesting: 91.143.58.1 (AS41822) seems to belong to honest-to-badness criminals. It's running an open proxy on port 80, also.

The phrases used in the vandalism are now beginning to repeat. Blocking those distinctive phrases would reduce the success rate during the vandalism phase drastically.

First change of signature string for the money-maker spams, now: OTN8fDEzMDQxMzc0NDJ8fDE5MDZ8fChFTkdJTkUpIE1lZGlhV2lraQ

And then back to the earlier signature again. The named spamming accounts each post at least one spam and there seems to be a backlog of quite a number of such accounts which haven't yet posted. It would be wise to keep them muzzled - you're unlikely to see the end of this if the link-farming machinery keeps scoring hits.

User talk:89.28.178.40

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[[category:spammer]]

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Carpudlian

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=Proposed Canon=
The Carpudlians are a [[capital side]] who are in an ongoing conflict with [[Transylvito]]. Like [[Jitterati]], they have so far chosen to disregard the growing threat posed by [[Gobwin Knob]] in order to attack their traditional enemies in [[Transylvito]]. This may prove to be a fatal strategic blunder.

They are one of two known sides (the other being Transylvito) to use water based assaults. They used this tactic to re-take [[Carport]]. They also have significant investments in air forces, archers, and spell defenses.

==Carpudlian Cities==
*[[Carpool]] ([[Capital]])
*[[Carport]]

==Units==
An unnamed [[Shockmancer]].

=Speculation=
[[King Slately]] of [[Jetstone]] and/or [[Don King]] of [[Transylvito]] may have warned them of [[Stanley]] and tried to persuade them to join the [[Royal Crown Coalition]]. But they evidently do not see [[Gobwin Knob]] as a really serious threat, and so have chosen to attack their traditional enemies in [[Transylvito]]. They may have a [[Foolamancer]].

==Real World References==
Carpudlian is a reference to Liverpudlian, the term for denizens of Liverpool, England.

It is also likely a reference to the Carpathian mountains, a range which forms the boundary of Transylvania within Romania, and historically a notoriously troublesome region.

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[[Category:Speculation]]
[[Category:Side]]
[[Category:Capital Side]]

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King Banhammer

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{{ImageStackRight|240|
{{crop|12|273|115|375|TBFGK_82.jpg}}{{Stats
|name= King Banhammer
|race= [[Men]]
|tribe=
|faction= [[Faq]]
|class= [[Ruler]] (King)
|move=
|hits=
|combat=
|defense=
|special= [[Royal]]
|eyebook=
}}
}}
==Proposed Canon==
'''Strengths:''' Philosophy, Peace

'''Weaknesses:''' War, Dealing With His Daughter

'''First Appearance:''' [[TBFGK 82]]

King Banhammer was the [[Royal]], [[men|human]] and final [[Ruler]] of [[Faq]] before he was [[croaking|croaked]].{{erf|1|082}} [[Jillian Zamussels]] is his [[Lineage|daughter]] and an [[heir]] to his throne. His rule was, until the end, peaceful and avoided conflict.

He had multiple [[Caster|Casters]]. In order to remain out of the conflict that rages across Erfworld, he relied on his [[Foolamancer]] ([[Jack Snipe]]) and [[Predictamancer]] ([[Marie Lavraie]]) to conceal his [[city|cities]]. He had few [[Warlord]]s and did not think much of them, lacking any use for them.{{erf|1|082}}

After his Predictamancer foretold the eventual fall of the kingdom, King Banhammer ordered an [[heir]] popped. The heir, Jillian, did not have the philosophical temperament Banhammer had hoped for, leading to problems in their relationship. According to Jillian, Banhammer was very rule-bound, obsessed with philosophy, and uninterested in military matters.{{erf|1|082}}.

King Banhammer was croaked during the assault on [[Faq]] by [[Stanley the Plaid]]. This attack was orchestrated by [[Wanda Firebaugh]] in an attempt to pry the Arkenhammer from Stanley, but the plan failed when Stanley proved too powerful.

==Speculation==
*It is possible that his croaking is shown on page 147{{erf|1|147}}. The body size seems to match with King Banhammer. {{erf|1|082}}
**Defeated as Stanley relates in text update 27 {{erf|2|T27}} that Wanda immediately croaked and uncroaked the King when his dwagons stormed Faq.

Banhammer may have intentionally caused the strife between himself and his daughter. Popping an heir would not have changed the Prediction concerning his Kingdom: With or without an heir, it would still have been destroyed. From Jillian's temperament, he would know that she would have died in glorious battle defending her kingdom futilely making her popping a waste of effort; however, by being away from Faq at the time of its fall, she would become a Barbarian Warlord at his croaking, then could return to Faq and reclaim it, resurrecting and rebuilding the dead [[Side]].

==Real World References==
His name is a reference to the power wielded by an administrator to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banhammer ban or block users of internet media].

His name might also be a reference to the proverb "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword", since he and his city were defeated by the power of the [[Arkenhammer]].

{{Office Holder
| Office=[[Ruler]] of [[Faq]]
| Previous=''Unknown''
| Next=[[Jillian Zamussels]]
}}

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[[Category:Speculation]]
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User talk:Satgard

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User talk:50.17.222.82

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Useful Information

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== "Add useful information" ==

This should be the mantra of all writers and editors here. It is your main purpose and guideline for what kinds of articles and information belong in this wiki. Add useful information. Err on the side of too much. If you want to add it, it's probably useful. Seriously, go to town.

== Useful to '''whom'''? Users of this Wiki!==

That's intentionally broad. In general, the more users who would benefit from the information you're adding, the better. But that is only one guideline!

An article about one obscure aspect of [[Erfworld]] that only a few people would care about is also useful! Even a deep and lengthy article on a topic that only half a dozen fans would ever care about makes the wiki better and more useful by existing than if it were not there to read.

And even an article which only the person who added it would find value in could STILL be useful, if it's something like personal reference page that you use to store information and references for future articles. But if you ''are'' the only person you could imagine getting value out of it, then consider whether it would be better if you kept it as notes on your own hard drive.

== Useful '''how'''? Understanding and enjoying Erfworld! ==

Articles that establish and explore facts about the [[story]], the [[characters]] and the [[Erfworld|world]] are the most obvious and important subjects for articles.

Articles that help establish a frame of reference for the story can also be useful.

Articles about meta-facts, such as the creators, the fans, events related to Erfworld, the history of the project, press that the project has received, etc. are also useful and should be added.

== What information '''isn't''' useful? ==

Misleading information isn't useful. Speculation that looks like fact needs to be clarified. Facts should be sourced when possible, but do not fall into the trap of classifying whole sources as off limits. Use common sense and reason. Challenge and research anything stated as fact which causes you to doubt it.

Completely irrelevant information isn't useful. But there will be a lot less of this than you think! If it has even a tangential use to fans of Erfworld, leave it in! [[Retconjuration]] is [[Naughtymancy]].

Spam isn't useful. Kill it with fire.

== What about style? ==

A consistent style is useful. But enforcing a consistent style to the detriment of the usefulness of the tool is what has killed most of [[Wikipedia|Wikipedia's]] awesome potential. So if you want to contribute your time cleaning up articles and making them clearer and more consistent, that is great! Please, please do, we need that! Just remember always that style is trumped by substance, and never hurt an article's utility in the name of improving its look and feel.

Some things you can do to improve an article:

Make it clearer to understand, because that's useful.

Improve its organization, because that's useful.

Clean out redundant information, because that's useful.

Correct the grammar, spelling and punctuation, because that's useful.

Track down sources of facts, especially facts you question. That's useful not for its own sake, but for the sake of having an article with true information in it! If the information you're looking at is unsourced, but you have no reason to doubt it, then don't worry about it. We do ''not'' need to see "'''There are five fingers on the human hand.[''citation needed'']'''" That's not helping.

In short, editors here should not get hung up on points of style. Don't give the slightest consideration to the word "encyclopedic" or anything similar. This wiki is not meant to be pretty, academic, or encyclopedic. It's meant to be comprehensive, dynamic, constructive, and helpful. If we eventually do get bogged down by trivia, then organize the trivia. Do not delete it!
[[Category:Wiki]]

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Talk:Magic

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In regard to eyebooks, is it worth adding that the instant message sounds are references to the signature sounds from classic Mac OS? I'm sure that the "EEP!" sound is the notorious "wild eep". [http://mac.wikia.com/wiki/Wild_Eep]

=Spell=
Hey guys, let's give "spell" its own article. That's going to be a complicated one. [[User:Balder|Balder]] 17:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
*Okay, that'll be my next project. --[[User:Kreistor|Kreistor]] 01:54, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

==Classes==
Ok, couldn't we assume that magic classes have natural enemies? Maybe enemies is too strong of a word, but you know.

Hocus Pocus - Naughtymancy
Spookism - Hippiemancy
Stuffamancy - Eyemancy
Stagemancy - Clevermancy

==New Table==
I've condensed the old magic tables. I kept the old code below. [[User:Miment|Miment]] 04:22, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
===Old Code===

{| style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center"
| style="background:gray; width:60px" | [[Life]] || style="background:gray; width:60px" | [[Motion]] || style="background:gray; width:60px" | [[Matter]] || style="background:white; color:black; text-align:left" | Element/Class
|- style="background:white; color:black"
| x || || || style="background:darkgray; text-align:left" | [[Hocus Pocus]]
|- style="background:white; color:black"
| || x || || style="background:darkgray; text-align:left" | [[Spookism]]
|- style="background:white; color:black"
| || || x || style="background:darkgray; text-align:left" | [[Stuffamancy]]
|- style="background:white; color:black"
| x || x || || style="background:darkgray; text-align:left" | [[Eyemancy]]
|- style="background:white; color:black"
| x || || x || style="background:darkgray; text-align:left" | [[Hippiemancy]]
|- style="background:white; color:black"
| || x || x || style="background:darkgray; text-align:left" | [[Naughtymancy]]
|- style="background:white; color:black"
| x || x || x || style="background:darkgray; text-align:left" | [[Stagemancy]]
|- style="background:white; color:black"
| || || || style="background:darkgray; text-align:left" | [[Clevermancy]]
|}
 
{| style="text-align:center; background:black"
| rowspan="2" style="background:white; width:120px" | '''Class\Axis'''|| colspan="3" style="border:1px solid darkgray; background:darkgray; color:white" | '''Magical Axis'''
|- style="background:gray; color:white"
| style="width:120px" | '''[[Erf]]'''
| style="width:120px" | '''[[Fate]]'''
| style="width:120px" | '''[[Numbers]]'''
|- style="background:white"
| style="background:darkgray; text-align:right" | '''[[Hocus Pocus]]'''
| {{MagicInfo|Erf|Hocus Pocus}}
| {{MagicInfo|Fate|Hocus Pocus}}
| {{MagicInfo|Numbers|Hocus Pocus}}
|- style="background:white"
| style="background:darkgray; text-align:right" | '''[[Spookism]]'''
| {{MagicInfo|Erf|Spookism}}
| {{MagicInfo|Fate|Spookism}}
| {{MagicInfo|Numbers|Spookism}}
|- style="background:white"
| style="background:darkgray; text-align:right" | '''[[Stuffamancy]]'''
| {{MagicInfo|Erf|Stuffamancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Fate|Stuffamancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Numbers|Stuffamancy}}
|- style="background:white"
| style="background:darkgray; text-align:right" | '''[[Eyemancy]]'''
| {{MagicInfo|Erf|Eyemancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Fate|Eyemancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Numbers|Eyemancy}}
|- style="background:white"
| style="background:darkgray; text-align:right" | '''[[Hippiemancy]]'''
| {{MagicInfo|Erf|Hippiemancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Fate|Hippiemancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Numbers|Hippiemancy}}
|- style="background:white"
| style="background:darkgray; text-align:right" | '''[[Naughtymancy]]'''
| {{MagicInfo|Erf|Naughtymancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Fate|Naughtymancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Numbers|Naughtymancy}}
|- style="background:white"
| style="background:darkgray; text-align:right" | '''[[Stagemancy]]'''
| {{MagicInfo|Erf|Stagemancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Fate|Stagemancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Numbers|Stagemancy}}
|- style="background:white"
| style="background:darkgray; text-align:right" | '''[[Clevermancy]]'''
| {{MagicInfo|Erf|Clevermancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Fate|Clevermancy}}
| {{MagicInfo|Numbers|Clevermancy}}
|}

==Real World References==
Words that include: -mancy, -mancer, -mantic, -mantical (Greek: used as a suffix; divination, prophecy; to interpret signs so “practical” decisions can be made [related to -mania])

== Clevermancy should have no X's ==

The comic shows it as having the same axis as Eyemancy, which is wrong. Check the [[Word_of_the_Titans#2315787|Word of the Titans]] or the original post. [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2315787#post2315787 1]] [[User:Miment|Miment]] 00:54, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

User talk:91.143.58.1

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Dirtamancy

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=Canon=

{{MagicSchool
|Stuffamancy
}}

=Proposed Canon=

==Information==

Dirtamancy is one of the three disciplines of the [[magic]] class [[Stuffamancy]], which is aligned to the [[magic|element]] of [[Matter]]. Dirtamancy is aligned with the axis of Erf.{{erf|1|038a|Parson's Klog #2}}

It is apparently a rare discipline and highly valued around the [[Magic Kingdom]]. Conversely it seems to be under-appreciated outside of the Magic Kingdom.

==Abilities==

*Moving and digging through solid stone. 
*Creating and healing Dirtamancy [[golems]] such as 
:[[Crap Golems]] 
:[[Acid Rock Golems]] 
:[[Soft Rock Golems]] 
:[[Hard Rock Golems]] 
:[[Metal Golems]] 
*Creation of booby traps. (Could be solely the application of enhanced digging or tunneling abilities.) 
*Construction and demolition of buildings and similar battlefield and civil engineering tasks.
**Building walls, tilling gardens, digging foundations, making stone paths, etc.
*Alteration of terrain type. (Accomplished by a Dirtamancer [[Caster Link|linked]] by a [[Thinkamancer]] to a [[Croakamancer]].)

==Known Dirtamancers==

[[Sizemore Rockwell]] in the service of the [[Plaid Tribe]].

==Dirtamancer Bonuses==

A Dirtamancer is also known to give a substantial combat bonus to Dirtamancy [[golems]] under his or her command.

A Dirtamancer present in the city at the time of an upgrade also substantially reduces the cost.
[[Category:Magic]][[Category:Proposed Canon]]

A Dirtamancer that is present when a city upgrades dictates the look of the city and the livery (if any) present within.

=Speculation=

As a form of [[Stuffamancy]], Dirtamancy is aligned with [[Matter]], but not with [[Life]] or [[Motion]]. However, most of the abilities which a Dirtamancer commands seem to allow him to either grant matter a magical substitute for [[Life]] (as in the creation of [[golems]]), or to involve the movement of matter, (such as in the construction of [[tunnel]]s.)

==Natural Dirtamancy==

The building and upgrading of a [[city]] is a form of natural dirtamancy, as is [[sack]]ing a city by an enemy.

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[[Category:Proposed Canon]]
[[Category:Speculation]]

Carpudlian

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==Cookie==
{{Cookie
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|signature=[[User:Miment|Miment]] 06:29, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hopefully your browser doesn't block them :P The Wiki needs more users like you. [[User:Miment|Miment]] 06:29, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

== Spam ==

Just an update, I talked with Rob about it a bit on IRC. He knows, and he's telling Harknell.
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[15:02] <RobTitan> Primary problem is with new pages being created, then?
[15:03] <Miment> Yes
[15:04] <Miment> Disabling new pages would be an OK temp fix, but requiring a proper captcha on edits with new external links should stop basically any type of spam.
[15:07] <RobTitan> I will quote you on that directly to Harknell in this email I am composing.
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[[User:Miment|Miment]] 23:17, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Also, if you could put the Category:Spammer in the user talk page, that'd be great. We stared that convention because anonymous users don't have user pages (they only have talk pages). Just saves an edit when they get moved from spammer to banned. Great work with keeping everything policed by the way! [[User:Miment|Miment]] 18:42, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

I'd love to promote you to admin (Permanently!) but I don't have the authority to do it. I can't even give you temp banhammer only privileges :( You'd need to get in touch with Harknell about that. If you can, feel free to tell him I think it's a good idea :3 [[User:Miment|Miment]] 04:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
::Still no word on the captchas D: [[User:Miment|Miment]] 14:17, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Hyatt

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=Proposed Canon=

Hyatt is a member of the recently re-established [[Royal Crown Coalition]].

=Speculation=

It is implied{{blog|2009|09|summer-updates-040}} that Hyatt is not in fact a Royal side. Hyatt is a [[Regency]], but the meaning of this is unclear. In the Real World's history, a regent is established when a new King or Queen is too young to assume the duties of the throne. The regent rules in the monarch's stead until the monarch comes of age. It is not clear how this would function in a world with no children.

It may indicate a once-[[Royal]] side whose monarch named a non-Royal [[Heir Designate]] before being [[croaked]]. This could possibly happen even with one or more Royal [[Heir]]s in the side. It is also possible that the side thus run by a non-royal [[Overlord]], or [[Regent]] could still [[pop]] a Royal [[Heir]], perhaps within a limited number of [[turn]]s, or a royal heir was already being produced when the Ruler was croaked with a non-royal unit holding the position of Heir Designate at the time. Or possibly, the ([[Royal]]) [[Ruler]] is under some long-term effect (possibly a spell) which left the [[Ruler]] unable or unfit for ruling so the (non-royal) [[Chief Warlord]] had to become Regent and assume control.

As the Hyatt Regency has existed for some time, it may be that there is a royal being popped who/whose capital was effected by a offensive use of turnamancy to delay the heir's arrival.

=Real World References=

The regency of Hyatt is a reference to the [[wikipedia:Hyatt_Regency|Hyatt Regency]] hotel.

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