The idea is to post one's first ever post as a player, which might amuse, intrigue or otherwise divert the KH community.

The process for finding one's first ever post is:

1. At the end of a thread (any thread) there is a button labelled "Favorite", press it.

2. This does some stuff ("Your favorite is being processed or somesuch), but eventually one is presented with an interface containing (amongst other settings) a section labelled "Forum Settings" and in that a link labelled "My Posts". Click that link.

3. This gives a list of links to your posts; if you have more than a few then only the latest few will be displayed. Change to viewing the earliest posts by pressing the "End >>" button.

4. Now you are looking a list of links to your earliest posts. Click on the last of these links.

5. This takes you to the thread containing your earliest post. Scroll down from the top and the first of your posts you find, is it.

6. Get the quoted text of that post, by pressing the "Quote" button. This put you in editing mode, but instead of editing and posting, just select all the text and copy it (i.e. copy and paste).

7. In this thread ("First Post Club", post a reply message: a) push the reply button, b) paste in the text copied at 6.

My first post is:

Smelgar wrote:

QUOTE:
Given that long coastlines have proven difficult to defend, perhaps we should be looking to enhance our position in Asia Minor away from the coast? Both Bolu and Gerede are landlocked and abut Sinop, which has proven eminently defensible. In addition, Sinop has now started to grow in population, so its reinforcement with an adjacent shire may be wise. Gerede does have a border with the Akritian castle in Yenice, but they do not seem a current threat; it has the further advantage of bordering with the outpost of our brother-in-arms in Ulus, strengthening opportunities for mutual support.

Within Europe there are opportunities too: land-locked Baranya flows with honey (if not milk and honey). Bulgaria have ten knights crammed into one shire: perhaps they be encouraged to expand west, which would provide a buffer between Rome and Hungary?

We should be cautious about too rapidly reclaiming our Adriatic coastline. It may well lead to involvement in Italian politics, which has many perils that may not be matched by rewards.

We should encourage our Macedonian allies to adopt a similar focus on land-locked shires, whilst not undermining Rome's vital interests. Assuming they take Kosovo, their next move would ideally be Sterea and not Montenegro, and then a coastal province (perhaps Thessaly). This will leave us free to pursue our eventual interest in re-incorporating Montenegro followed (more importantly) by Serbia within the Empire.

NB: At that time there was no Serbia, and a large number of Roman knights were Serbian, so the goal of conquering Montenegro and Serbia was to give those Knights a place to build their shires.