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Back then I actually had gotten a fair bit of work done, and I intend to finish it, but before I left the Spork-Pudding Wars had just been suspended because of the excessive trolling, and now I'm just quite lost in this whole 'evil overlord' business that's been going on. Anyone mind filling me in on what I've missed?

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There isn't a evil overlord thing going on. I think you are referring to the forum game Commander. Everyone who didn't qualify were put on teams under the people that did qualify, we would then cheer our 'commanders' on, trash talk other teams and have fun. Other forums members were invited to bolster a teams numbers. That's all done now though.

"cheer our 'commanders' on" ~=translation=~ "many people cleverly spammed as much propaganda as they could, with no intellectual debates on the facts of the battles - the most interesting thing was the art Morgan and Quiller did; the rest was absolute trash talk without any premise or boundaries" - "but that's all done now"

Spam? Where?!

Any thread that included "white sail" got an immediate flood of posts repeating the phrase. Which, in my opinion, was not very fun to see all day every day for a few consecutive days.

Most of it was in the forum game related threads though right?

Yes, but the location of the threads were in the lounge. Although some of the artwork threads were acceptable for the lounge, the rest of the spam propaganda and bandwagon creations belong in the forum games - since they are relevant to the forum games, not just any old topic for the lounge to discuss.

Either way, it's mostly died down now so my opinions are no longer very relevant :P

I think Drakilian would qualify as the antagonist simply because of how he is portrayed. His image just demands that you kneel before him or he will annihilate you. The fact that he has no eyes makes him that much more intimidating. You never know where he is looking, or what he is thinking. However, it's almost as if he gazes into your soul...

There is no one single protagonist or antagonist. Every single faction are available to be played as, but regardless of your choices there is only one plot/ending - the one that have been carefully recorded in the true history of the great Faction Wars. The entire thing is less of a storygame and more of a, as Berka said in the original thread, satirical documentary.