Cantrian name for Cantr

Sho · Postby **Sho** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 3:17 am

Do characters call their world Cantr? This sort of came up when one person called himself "Postmaster of Cantr," which my character was puzzled by as he had never heard that word used before. (He's never been to Cantr City, either.) I think that people in different parts of the world would have different names for it, and none of those names would be the name that us participant-observers call it.

This leads me to another question: To what extent can OOC words, names and languages be used in Cantr? There was a religion based around Jos a while back, wasn't there? There are also quite a few people (myself included) who use names and/or languages taken from J. R. R. Tolkien's books. The word "Cantr" is also, in a way, an OOC word. Are these considered minor CR breaches, "bad manners" or acceptable?

grayjaket · Postby **grayjaket** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 3:43 am

That's a very good question. The church of Jos was condoned by Jos am I right? Cuz of the bad rp...using the world cantr...hmm I dunno. I guess if it refers to the world, then it's ok, because it's just like us calling our planet earth, and since somehow everyone in cantr speaks the same language than it would make sense no? <<< did that make sense?

nitefyre · Postby **nitefyre** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:33 am

I think we overthink all this stuff with the CR. Just call it the Land of Cantr because well, concievably it is the Cantr World we are afflicted by. Its just a label; much like we label time, etc.

rklenseth · Postby **rklenseth** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:31 am

No one ever labeled the world that our character live in. The game is called Cantr (and a few locations on one island), not the world. :wink:

I know of some places that have different names for the world.

I would like to say again that the world isn't called anything and sooner or later the naming of locations will be up to our characters so soon enough the world will become even more dynamic.

thingnumber2 · Postby **thingnumber2** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:15 pm

I'm gonna name the world Fred Flinstone!

Bran-Muffin · Postby **Bran-Muffin** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:02 pm

'I would like to say again that the world isn't called anything and sooner or later the naming of locations will be up to our characters so soon enough the world will become even more dynamic.'

Are you serious? they are making it where you can name locations? >.< like my other post in this part of the forum, i think that would be bad. >.<

InsaneIrony · Postby **InsaneIrony** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 3:16 pm

Aww man. That would mess up all the maps!

Meh · Postby **Meh** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:24 pm

A tranistional step would be to update the maps with which direction the paths go in so there would be a reference for later.

That is a character mapper issue.

boomhaeur · Postby **boomhaeur** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:13 pm

[sarcasm]great - I look forward to the day of roaming the "I M L337 HAX0R - PWN37" region[/sarcasm]

Bran-Muffin · Postby **Bran-Muffin** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:40 pm

this change happens my characters wont leave where they are at, they will just sit and grow fat in place or just sit and die in one place. A change like that seriously brings to mind a quit from cantr.

kroner · Postby **kroner** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:46 pm

Yeah, but listen, the names will probably remain the same for the most part anyway. Let's say Seatown Forest decides to change it's name to Yummtown. When your character is in Krif and says, "I just came from Yummtown" everyone is going to go "huh? what's that? Oh you mean Seatown Forest, right?"

Báng · Postby **Báng** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:47 pm

We managed the change from knowing people names to not knowing peoples names alright, we would manage the change from being able to change place names alright too. Everything in the already established world would remain the same anyway, as everyone knows where they live at the minute. Making a mountain out of a mole-hill.

Bran-Muffin · Postby **Bran-Muffin** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:21 pm

My question is will the town names remain the same even though you can change it? or will they suddenly go blank like the names of the people did way back then? if it goes blank then it will ruin the game for me i wouldnt be able to play it anymore i think. Either i wont play anymore or my characters wont move from the towns they live. I just think its to much of a change, i like it how the town names are right now...

Camino · Postby **Camino** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:33 pm

Yay for more dynamics! I wonder if the time thing will be done like Nick said about ages ago in a topic of his, its one of those things forced on us as players.

Bran-Muffin · Postby **Bran-Muffin** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:51 pm

Bah you people and your name changes >.<

Cantrian name for Cantr

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