Hello Grovians (sry if I got that wrong), I am the Dwarven Keystone of the Hammer, and I wanted to clear up something that happened earlier today, (or atleast clear up our side of the story that I pieced together)

First, what happened, then a explanation: So a lot of people were at grove today, minding their own business, hanging out, and working on their ships, when all of a sudden somebody started bringing up why we (the DH) shouldn't be there, or involved in the RP, since its supposed to be [R] vs the Grove. Obviously, we disagreed, and gave our RP reason why we should, (Willy owns the Grove, were Willys army, we came to help defend) then somebody else from the Grove started to back this person, saying the Grove's a quite place, and that were causing problems (i'm paraphrasing btw). From what I could tell, things didn't turn into a argument, but there was a bit of disagreeing, either way, the second Grovian started telling everyone to calm down, they then started insisting we "back off" and leave them alone. After a few moments of awkward silence, we went back to our ships ( a couple plots away), and started talking in region, trying to figure out what just went wrong, we decided to try and avoid the first Grovian, as we feel they don't outsiders.

So now a explanation: So apparently, one of the Dwarven people there, mentioned (in character mind you) that we should use fire against the enemy fleet, since they have no stone in their ships, some Grovians took offence to this, claiming were taking RP to seriously. They mentioned how they intend to fight [R] by shooting flowers at them, and we've come in, and intend to use actual means of fighting (in RP). While I can understand their frustrations a bit, its a little unfair to anybody that wants to have fun in this massive RP event and doesn't follow the Grove's RP of fighting with love.

Why we seem more serious: So the Dwarven District is a District filled with warriors and miners, our RP is just normally a bit more serious for war RP and such, and we keep a lot of things in-character, but ooc, we want everyone to have fun, take elf shire for example, we fight them in character, but help them however we can ooc. So now look at the current RP event from our perspective, we have a good RP reason to be involved, since Willy owns the Grove, and were his army, and we also want to be there for ooc reasons, to have fun. Now if we stop our RP to be less serious, we won't be Dwarfs, we'll be confused, and we won't have fun, so we can't do that.

Final Thoughts: So this RP event, was posted in the PODD sub-reddit, which is for organizing joint RP events, for the major factions on the server. The DH is one of these major factions, and has a good in character reason to be involved, not to mention the fact that almost everyone was invited to take part in this event (despite in character reasons). So this seems like a cross District event, that everyone should be allowed to take part in, and not just the Grove vs [R].

So on behalf of the DH, I apologise if our presence annoys any of you, but we have every right to be involved in this and haven't caused any issues, or started any ooc fights with anyone. Today we felt very unwelcomed, but were not about to pack up and leave because a few people don't like outsiders.

I'm not trying to cause a fight with this post, but myself and others in the Dwarven District felt this needed to be addressed so we can avoid further issues.