Ha ha ha! I was there for that negotiation. I do also recall that we had to exchange two Alliance prisoners and then the Alliance turn up with the Horde guy and we were like “Just take back these two prisoners, we do not want anything else.”
You have my upvote because you posted the Nijmegen Bridge.
Nijmegen is a small city, it’s a fun city, it’s a rave city.
Unlike those horrible swines that live (if you can call it that) in Arnhem.
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yeah as a Vulpera main i do love the concept of a pirate based roleplay where all races are welcomed to join.
though not many are going the pirate road, so i stuck to the horde for now. especially since its easier to visit the crossroads as a horde member rather than a travelling pirate.
hope this makes sense.
I’ve been there a few times as I live in the Netherlands, and some friends of mine ended up living there. I like it cause, while it’s a city, it’s not “BIG” city, which I think is nice. You also Dutch then, my friend? 
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Dutch, but moved to Antwerp, Belgium, and probably still be moving further south as I go along. Still miss the more open-minded, pragmatic, rebellious, and go-get attitude of my hometown though. Still Antwerp has pool tables, cigarettes and Belgium beer, strong principles and disciplines, and together with the still kicking Jazz scenes and beatnik artists it kinda feels like a film noir set at times.
Basically I switched a small agrarian town for an far larger industrial city.
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Dear lord, you ended up living pretty close to me then. I live in that part of Zeeland that borders to Belgium. As for Antwerp, I sometimes go there to go to the movies, but, honest to god ( sorry my Belgian bros and sisters), they can’t drive for real. The last three times I went there, I nearly got into a car-accident. Their road-marks suck, and their traffic-lights are bloody dangerous as they let both the on-going trafficlanes, aswell as the ones that have to turn go at the same time ( thats how i nearly got into the last accident there).
Belgian infrastructure is just hilariously bad in general, given the amount of potholes you may encounter in the road aswell.
Edit: And with the current works going on to improve the Ring of Antwerp, things have become even more of a mess, and I am glad I do not have to be there too often.
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Yeah man, I’ve had multiple near-death experiences because of the Belgian tradition of just messing around and making little to no clear rules about bicycle lanes.
I don’t think they’ll ever be able to fix the problem unless they make a large sum of the inner city car free. The city itself is quite well preserved and a lot of the houses are from the 19th century and older. However the houses are also build with the distance needed for wagon carts and horses in mind, back in the time the citizen could just walk in the middle of the road. However, eventually the car has taken a big impact in the global culture, and cities like this aren’t build for it. It’s mind boggeling how much trucks I see driving within the city, and it’s even crazier that deadly accidents with them aren’t anything crazy and barely anything will be done about it.
As a lot of things with Belgium, it’s a another complex problem that can’t be easily fixed within a short period. It’s just another stack of different parties wanting different things, stacking different solution which don’t go nowhere and eventually it’s just more problematic to change it into something which actually functions without the unions striking or the companies leaving.
I often joke with my friends that Belgium is actually an anarcho-bureaucratic state. Because there are too many rules here, so the people just do a lot things in the dark so they can keep their freedom, as long they fill in their papers correctly, right?
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I reckon the language barrier and all three having their own parliaments don’t help either.
We should probably just re-integrate them back into the Netherlands! 
( I joke ofcourse.)
Funny, my old history-teacher from Belgium called them the most anarchist-state ever aswell. ( Which might be true considering they beat the world-record holder of longest time to form a new government, Iraq.) But, in all seriousness. I often joke about the Belgians, but I am glad that they are here. My part of the Netherlands would be alot less livable without them, seeing as many doctors in the hospital there are Belgian, my dentist is Belgian, etc. So I’m glad they’re willing to work there, cause sure ain’t going to be extra Dutchies coming over to do so 
Or when they stop handing out drivers licenses with every pack of butter.
No offense all of belgium but those people can’t drive 
It is probably the worst part of living near the border.
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They say that the further south you go, the worse it gets. It’s said about Frenchmen that they don’t drive their cars, they aim them.
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Considering the traffic-apocalypse known as the arc de triomphe i fully believe this.
It looks like a free for all demolition-derby brawl more than it does a road.
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Yeah. Most people here actually don’t live with the rules, they live next to them.
It’s what I actually find the most fun of living in Belgium actually, because there are so many rules which are at times contradicting each other, a lot of people just simple out deal things more face-to-face rather than doing anything the legal way because if you want anything done by tomorrow you can’t wait for penlicking Emiel to read your request for admission beneath some meters of paperwork.
A city like Antwerp is kinda two-faced in that regard. For one there is the tourist-friendly come shopping at the Meir in the weekend face, at the other there is the underground scene, the drugs, drunk people fighting on the streets in front of the nightshop, people gambling poker at the back of some shady bar, illegal psychedelic parties, the nightlife face (something the mayor, Bart de Wever, desperately tries to fight in favour of the more lucrative former).
Even though I had plenty of misadventures with my stay here, I probably eventually leave for a more agrarian place.
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Peers in.
Random topic.
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Yeah sorry. That Nijmegen Bridge though…
But better return to the original topic.
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I feel like I missed out on lot of prisoner RP drama but I know enough to accept why people don’t want to bother anymore.
It’s kind of like RPing a healer and having that one particular kind of guy drag it all out and on and on because it’s less about being hurt and more about the attention.
My priest is not your mommy, thanks.
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“I will knit you back together with Light and Shadow magic. Grit those teeth, because this is combat healing, not Nurse RP, and I have no frags left to give.”
-Levi, paraphrased from her actual IC combat mannerisms
Dispassionate professionalism all the way. A grumpily abusive healer who is out of patience with your mewling is just a harsh mommy to these people.
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A bit of a tangent from this, but I hate people that know IRL medical stuff and expect in-game doctors and medics to have that same knowledge.
Look I know that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and that -emia means presence in/of blood but I’m trying to give your injured character a magical potion made of herbs that don’t exist in the real world and might not even have comparable counterparts, I’m not an actual MD.
O.A is a thirty one year old lycanthropic male presenting to the emergency room, unconscious. A blood test reveals he has hypernatremia. Hyper, meaning high. Na referring to natrium, or sodium, and emia meaning presence in blood. A high sodium presence in blood.
Doctors quickly identify the source of the salt as pedantic roleplayers on the Argent Dawn server and infuse a saline solution into him, removing the excess salt from his blood. After a few days in the hospital, he was able to sustain a recovery.
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Blessed emu.
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Or the even more absurd tale, once again courtesy of Blood Elf RPers.
A bunch of Blood Elves are brought back from the battlefield all wounded and dying and my character, being the trained healer and mender offers to patch them back up.
“BEGONE FILTHY UNDEAD DO NOT TOUCH THEM. WHERE IS THE HEALER.”
standing right beside you bruv.
Insert fifteen minutes of melodramatic slow dying because “THERE ARE NO HEALERS WHICH CAN MEND MY SOUL MATES WOUNDS”.
i am literally standing here while the Blood Elf RPers chew the scenery and refuse to have their character healed.
Blood Elf dramatically ‘dies’ from blood loss.
my character then turns to others and goes ‘so when can we expect a val’kyr to come raise them?’
About two days later they’re running around healthily on the battlefield again???
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