Welcome to the city of Edmond, where military role play is at its best thanks to the presence and dedication of the Merczateers group. This group is headed by brothers Anthony Lehane and Lurdan Huszar, and is one of Second Life’s oldest role playing groups with a focus on military combat and tactics. Military role play has a long and colorful history in Second Life, and you can encounter almost every kind of military role play when you fire up the search engine and look under groups. There are those that don’t take the role play seriously and those that do, with their settings varying from the Middle Ages to the Second World War to postmodern warfare. The Merczateers are serious about gaming and role playing in a post-modern, paramilitary style. They are very organized, they have an established recruitment process, and they train assiduously. Their history and back story is detailed, but concise enough to allow players to easily get into their characters. They are well equipped with uniforms, weapons, vehicles, and the city of Edmond as their base. Edmond was created entirely in mesh in the Central Plexus sim, standing resolutely proud even in the midst of battle. Despite some sections being charred and bombed-out ruins, the city’s past glory is evident in the rich detail that of the textures, and the play of light and shadow illuminating the character to the build. The city,
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