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Welcome to The Continental, located in an undisclosed location within Torn.

Around here, reputation is currency.

The Torn Credit Bureau is the records office of The Continental. Every grievance, verified transaction, and reputation signal eventually finds its way across The Common’s desk.

What follows is a tour of the system currently in development...

Scene 1 — The Commons

Welcome to the Continental.

Reputation is currency. What are we handling today?

Status: LIVE

Scene 2 — Credit Bureau Records Room

"Give me a name or a number. If they have a record, we'll find it."

Search players by name or ID.

View credit history, grievances, transaction confirmations, and public reputation records.

Status: LIVE

Scene 3 — Report Intake Desk

"Bring evidence. Around here, accusations without proof are just noise."

Reports are reviewed before affecting scores.

Pending reports remain visible but do not affect reputation until verified.

Status: LIVE

Scene 4 — Transaction Verification Office

"Good deals deserve a paper trail."

• Verified transactions
• Trade confirmations
• Loan history
• Reputation building

Status: LIVE

Scene 5 — Watchlist Operations

"Some names are worth watching. Some because they're valuable. Some because they're dangerous."

• Personal watchlists
• Merchant monitoring
• Reputation tracking

Status: LIVE

Scene 6 — Banner's Bazaar

"The Bazaar runs on trust. Bad sellers don't last long under this roof."

• Trusted merchant identity
• Seller reputation
• Future storefront system

Scene 7 — Contract House

"Every seller has a past. We make sure it's a clean one."

• Revive contracts
• Mercenary work
• Escrow
• Operator reputation

Scene 8 — Trusted Vendor Hall

"The best reputation brings the best customers. That's commerce, the Continental way."

• Top merchants
• Verified vendors
• Reputation badges
• Rankings

Status: IN DEVELOPMENT

Scene 9 — Contract House Lobby

"Contracts are coming. Everything will be reputation-backed."

• Contract wing
• Future operator network
• Reputation-backed services

Status: PLANNED

Scene 10 — Escrow Office

"Escrow protects both sides. Money in. Terms met. Money out."

• Secure escrow services
• Third-party trust layer
• High-value transactions

Status: PLANNED

Scene 11 — Operator Registry

"Operators are only as good as their reputation."

• Revivers
• Mercenaries
• Contractors
• Trusted operators

Status: PLANNED

Scene 12 — War Room

"The board is set. Opportunities don't wait."

• Credit scores
• Consumer reports
• Financial intelligence
• Market analytics
• Merchant networks
• Strategic operations

Status: FUTURE ROADMAP

The Commission

Every institution eventually reaches a point where one person can no longer carry the burden alone.

The Continental is approaching that point.

The records are growing. The marketplace is growing. The number of disputes, transactions, and decisions will continue to grow.

Soon, The Commission must be formed.

The Commission will not be elected.

The Commission will not be purchased.

The Commission will not be assigned based on wealth, faction size, or popularity.

The first seats will be offered by invitation only.

Those invited will be players whose reputations have been built over years, not weeks. Players known for judgment, consistency, discretion, and service to the community.

Their first responsibility will be simple:

Choose who receives the first Marker.

A Marker is not a reward.

It is a responsibility.

The holder of the first Marker will help establish the standards, traditions, and expectations that shape The Continental from its earliest days.

No applications are being accepted.

No promises are being made.

For now, we're watching.

The names worthy of consideration already know who they are.

And if they don't, they probably aren't ready for the seat.

The door remains closed.

For now.

Translation: 

I benefit from this behavior or don’t want it challenged, so I’m going to downplay it, shift responsibility onto you, and frame your criticism as toxic so the conversation stops.

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It makes them untrustworthy is what it makes them, and this is for the players who grind hard for their networth and don’t wish to give ANYONE, “good” or “bad”, an opportunity to steal from them.

If that’s something you’re against, I don’t know what to tell you.

Anyways, Need 5-15 trusted players for beta testing. 

Impressive advert. I’m going to use it as inspiration.

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Just be active.

bogie you are a fucking pig.

They removed the warning as well as the post.

Further proof they’re abusing their position of authority.

Soooo… How about that accountability?

Defamation of character.

Next.

staff edit discrimination 

I have prayed. And meditated on holy things in a room for years.

And if Torn is my Nineveh, then so be it.

Jonah wanted to flee. God sent him anyway.

You are free to block or ignore me, as Arafyre suggested, but I cannot pretend I was not sent with a message.

“We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” — Acts 4:20

“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” — Matthew 11:15

Whether they listen or refuse to listen, “they will know that a prophet has been among them.” — Ezekiel 2:5

For I did not come seeking the approval of men.

“If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.” — Galatians 1:10

Staff edit, misogyny 

Staff edit - misogyny 

Funny.

If players deserve a Fedded Archives, perhaps staff decisions deserve archives too.

Accountability shouldn’t only flow one way.

PastorJohn isn’t the standard. The Rules are.

And don’t tell me to “shut the fuck up” while simultaneously telling me to report it. I did.

I reported it. I sought mediation. I repeatedly asked for help. My reaction was punished immediately. Those pleas were not acted upon.

And how dare you tell me where I may and may not speak of Christ on a game that literally has a Church.

The audacity.

Christ is not confined to buildings.

“We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” — Acts 4:20

And who are you to tell another man’s servant where he may stand or fall? “It is before his own master that he stands or falls.” — Romans 14:4

Unless you can make me shut the fuck up, I will remain faithful.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.” — Romans 1:16

“If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.” — Galatians 1:10

So spare me the dick swinging contest and address the issue.

Read the logs.

Either repeated insults directed at my mother, sexual accusations, death jokes, and hostility while I was preaching the Gospel violate the Rules, or they don’t.

Which is it?

And if this is all just me having a victim complex, then explain why the punishment for my reaction was immediate, but the repeated pleas for help that preceded it were met with silence.

“If this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing. But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it. You might even be found fighting against God.” — Acts 5:38-39

Fair enough, I’ll be a twat waffle. 😂

Call me a twat, an idiot, or whatever else. I can take it, you window licker.

What I take seriously is my mother being repeatedly called a whore, subjected to sexual insults, and used as the punchline for death jokes.

Apparently, neither is taken seriously by staff.

That’s the problem.

I appreciate that you’re willing to look into the nuances for yourself.

What I struggle to understand is why she wasn’t simply asked to stop.

My mother doesn’t play Torn. She isn’t involved in the game. Rule 9 says not to cause distress. Have I not calmly and repeatedly expressed distress here? Have I not repeatedly asked for help?

This isn’t even primarily about what she said anymore. Nor is it merely about whether the “Report a Staff Violation” feature is a joke without substance.

It’s about the fact that the Community Manager, when approached for mediation, couldn’t simply act like an adult and say, “Leave his mother out of it.”

What does my mother have to do with Torn?

Who raised you?

Yes, I reacted harshly. I accept responsibility for that. But the solution was always available. All that was required was for someone entrusted with authority to do the job they were entrusted to do.

That’s the part I cannot understand.

So I’m just supposed to accept unprovoked cyberbullying that isn’t even game related?

I’m just supposed to accept repeated insults directed at my mother, sexual accusations, and death jokes while calmly preaching the Gospel?

Is that what you’re telling me?

That the appropriate response was not for staff to ask her to stop, but for me to quietly endure it until I reacted, at which point punishment became immediate?

Is that really the standard?

Because if so, then just say it.

Say that players are expected to tolerate harassment so long as staff don’t personally deem it serious enough.

Say that mediation isn’t part of the Community Manager’s job.

Say that a player’s family is fair game.

Say that the Rules mean whatever staff decide they mean.

But don’t tell me the Rules matter while simultaneously refusing to enforce them.

Interesting.

So instead of addressing whether repeated insults directed at my mother violate Rule 10, you read my profile, speculate about my mental state, and tell me I need help.

That’s an ad hominem, not an argument.

And no, my allegation isn’t that staff attacked my faith because I “didn’t get my way.”

It’s that the hostility consistently appeared when I was openly preaching the Gospel, my repeated pleas for help were ignored, and the punishment for my reaction was immediate.

Those are facts.

Address them.

Did she, or did she not, make those remarks only when I was openly preaching the Word of God?

Did I not repeatedly ask for help?

Was the punishment for my reaction immediate, while those repeated pleas went unanswered?

Those are questions of fact.

If the answer to those questions is yes, then I believe there are serious questions to be asked about whether my religious expression was treated equally and whether the Rules were enforced consistently.

That is my allegation.

🎶Broken Things — Matthew West🎶

🎶Hate On Me — Anthony Q🎶

You can mock me, but you will not shame me into being silent about Christ.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel.” — Romans 1:16

🎶 Walk That Walk — Anthony Q 🎶

Christ had a 0% approval rating in some crowds too.

“Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you.” — Luke 6:26

🎶Only Jesus — Casting Crowns🎶

I already have. His name is Jesus Christ. (Psalm 121:1-2)

Christ said, “Whoever acknowledges Me before men, I will also acknowledge before My Father.” (Matthew 10:32) I’m not ashamed of my faith.

Tell me the faith that gets me through ever day since losing my daughter to an abortion I never consented to with a person that consented to lay with me means nothing, bogie.

Tell me the faith that my grandmother held beyond her death bed that I picked the vessel she served as a living sacrifice in up from and didn’t allow the hearse driver to close the bag over her face while they were on the property, despite it being “against the law” to do so, means nothing, bogie.

Tell me the faith that led to my gift being given to me through prophecy when my grandmother laid hands on me means nothing, bogie.

Say me and my faith mean nothing and I will go, bogie.