Maiden

[Aaron Goulet]

An "approved nouns list" makes me cringe whenever I see it. FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

If everyone had complete creative freedom, we would have no consistency, and without consistency, we would have CHAOS.

Okay, so I'm exaggerating, but I think some people take short descriptions a little too far already.  Simple is good.

[Aaron Goulet]

Seriously though, would you want the green eyed, pixie-haired dudette walking around?

Is she hot?

[Northlander]

How about an approved adjective list? I know several that make me think of entirely un-Zalanthan things and this time I'm not even talking about sex.

[RogueGunslinger]

What about adjectives and nouns that describe traits, not physical features. The hip, chill frood.

[Cutthroat]

I don't care one way or the other about "maiden". It's been used before several times, I've seen it, and my PCs just treated the maidens the same as everyone else.

There are some adjectives that describe traits and physical features. Graceful (describing grace, as well as physical features that tend to lend someone grace) and stout (describing boldness and bravery, as well as strength or bulkiness) are examples of this. Some are more objective than others - I imagine that there are so many that it would be hard to make a list of which are okay and which aren't.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

No. But maiden doesn't bother me at all.

[LauraMars]

I want to be a harridan.  And a dame.  And a witch.  And a shrew.  And a temptress.

And why can't we have boy and girl back?  =/

[Krath]

........Get rid of it........

[Adieren]

How about "the old, busty madame"?

[MarshallDFX]

The salty old silt sea-dog.

[musashi]

The salty old silt sea-dog.

The lusty old wench.

[Kankfly]

I voted no. Just because.

A stinky, ancient maiden is here, skulking around.

Granted, you probably won't use it. But how about if you ass -v maiden?

A young, olive-skinned man ass -vs a young, maiden.

She is alot older than you.

[Thunkkin]

Old maid?

I want to play a dowager.

[jhunter]

the recently-penetrated, ex-maiden

[jstorrie]

the man with the huge dong is here, pantsless

[Ghost]

the recently-penetrated, ex-maiden

nice one

[FantasyWriter]

50 for (78.1%)
15 against

gotta love those numbers

[Gagula]

Actually it gives a character a color of someone a little more fresh-crotched, not fresh-faced. And - remember kids, there are no tampons or disposable sanitary napkins in Zalanthas. Or toilet paper. Or laundry detergent, or fabric softener. You're using raw bolts of woven cloth to wipe your ass, IF you can afford it. If you can't, you're lucky if you wipe your ass at all and don't just scrape sand on your butt to get rid of the soiling. If you're female and menstruating, you're -probably- either wadded up with cloth or leaves, OR bleeding down your pretty white new silk leggings.

Maiden is a word that just plain doesn't belong in Zalanthas, unless it's applying to a chaste, unwed, virginal noble female.

Bleeding is a lot of water lost. I wonder if  female zalanthans have adapted out of this.

Eww- I just thought of Dune, and their water recycling stillsuits.. They never mentioned that part..

Heh, Never did go into how Chani got over those problems, did it....or Alia for that matter.........

[Xeran Van Houten]

That would have been handled by the waste handlers that is specifically mentioned collected in thigh-pouches, I believe.

[5 day lifespan]

People who are indifferent just shouldn't vote.


As a side not, that would be an awesome option on a presidential ballot.

[ ] Obama
[ ] McCain
[ ] They are both undeserving pricks.

As a quick derail, I would have been very happy if the ballot had been:

[] Obama/Biden
[] McCain/Palin
[] Obama
[] McCain

Returning to topic: Maiden is alright, I suppose, but I often use it to refer to virginity, which is a hard thing to note from a casual glance, and certainly wouldn't last long on Zalanthas.  Played a boy maiden once, but that didn't last long because his tribe mate was a whore. 

[Pantoufle]

I don't like maiden personally because there's very little which can be said, linguistically, to defend its use as part of an sdesc. But it's been around so long and exists both among PCs and NPCs (past and present) that we might as well assume in ArmageddonMUD it has its own definition: a girl, a young woman, etc.

At this point, just keep it, I say.

...but I still think boy and girl should be allowed back on the accepted list.

[spawnloser]

From what I understand, 'mutant' is no longer okay to use.  Additionally, why isn't 'human' on that list?

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

The 'approved nouns' list always seemed pretty arbitrary to me.

[musashi]

The 'approved nouns' list always seemed pretty arbitrary to me.

[nihilist]

Brute? Crone??? HAG???????