Looking back - we're almost five years old!

[Danny 2232]

Hi, long time no talk. Well, LotC is 5 years old in only a month or so and I thought it would be nice if we were to have a thread for looking back on those five years and for you to talk about what LotC has done and has been for you, plus, smash in some videos and screenshots!

 

I don't know about you, but LotC was a massive part of my life and it was amazing. I joined in 2011 and it was like.. heaven. I was a thirteen year old little kid, I had no sense of maturity, I was a complete idiot. You meet so many people, you have a great laugh and you have fun. I'd never roleplayed in my life but something drew me in and I'm glad it did. LotC is a brilliant community, and it's one that's gone through a hell of a lot of crap. Realistically if you've been on LotC for more than a week, you'll have seen an absolute ton of drama in your time. I can still remember 3/4am nights (damn time differences) sitting up facing the burning flames of something that went down, people going crazy, the server actually becoming a battlefield.. 

 

But at the same time, there's a lot of points where the community doesn't tear itself apart, because no matter how crap some days are, it is a damn good community. We've lost some amazing people over the five years the servers been around - a lot of people have made huge impacts and almost everyone will know their names - @Availer, @shiftnative , @Vaquxine and so many more who are no longer on the server like they once were. And there's those players who didn't have a massive impact on the server as a whole, but on the way we played ourselves, they did. Everyone has those players they roleplay'd with when they first joined who completely shaped the rest of the game for them - in my case it was @Pepernootand Coppercab, turned me from an illiterate, metagaming newb into a semi-decent roleplayer.. And hey, there was some amazing roleplay there - stuff I still remember like it was yesterday, and it was 4 years ago...

 

 

I'm not around any more. I stick my head in from time to time, and I'll be honest, I recognize very few people. But even though, it's still LotC - yeah, maybe a different LotC than what I knew and was used to, but you know that if you want to wind down, screw it, log-on and go mug some wimp on the road, or scroll through the show yourself thread or go have fun reading the angry feedback threads and ban reports. 

 

And I'm sorry, but I will never accept anybody saying Aegis was not amazing. Aegis was the height of LotC for me. And that ain't nostalgia talking, that's just what LotC was for me. I don't know if it's becuase I was staff from there onwards that I missed out on the experience of other maps but it was when LotC was Minecraft with RP, it was relaxed and chill, it was nooby and I loved nooby! Nothing was too serious, if you couldn't roleplay it didn't matter, nobody bloody could! The Bandits on the Kings Road were hilarious. Stepping off the road and just being able to build was amazing. The threat of the undead was terrifying. The bloodied eyes of @Gwonam_Blaze in Alk'hazar was somewhat welcoming... It was terrifying to go North of the city! That was my LotC height. 

 

 

Asulon was pretty damn good too I'll admit. Queue Roseus Aquila (#represent). @Lirinya, @Ascendant, @Tigergamer, @Roze and the rest. Aeri was my favourite character I've ever played (tied with Huurk and Servius Magdu) and it was you that made it that way. And the creepy figure of @Uraseptyou could sometimes see.. Guh. 

 

 

So, yeah. Thank you to everybody who ever rolplayed with me, who ever spoke to me, who ever sent me a modreq! It was my life for three years and it was brilliant. Let's make LotC's fifth anniversary something to remember - admin team go and organise a party, get the old players back, sent an email to every member on the forums getting them back! The server is five bloody years old, let's go and make it something special - the old admins, the old Gms, the old players, the old everything - let's make something amazing for that five year anniversary.

 

And I'd like to make a final little note her about how strong and powerful the community of LotC is. We've lost a number of players over the five years, who have passed in real life. And what do we do? We don't forget them. We stand by them, we've sent their families messages - and even if that is from an online community that they don't know, it's the people who really were their friends, and we've made tributes towards them. This is all shown, clearer than I could ever type, in the beautiful video created by @Song Druid and Seth in dedication to Maeghan. Now I never knew Maeghan, and I'm sure many of you didn't either, but this is what LotC is all about, it's a community, and yes we're only in communication through a little game, but that doesn't change anything.

 

 

Now, what's your experience with LotC? That's the whole point of this thread, show it.

[DISCOLIQUID 2701]

The height of Aegisian role-play for me was that damned toilet on King's Road. That, and when the Druidic Grove was nothing more than sixteen thousand mushrooms and a few books. 

[Danny 2232]

1 minute ago, Sythan said:

Waking up at 3am (Cos Australia) for my first warclaim when I was a new player in Anthos.

Going to meet up point to find out nobody was there

Get PM'd the coordinates of warclaim and run over on foot. It is now 4am. 

Had no idea if we were attacking or defending. End up walking up to enemy fort asking to be let in.

They tell me to **** off.

I head back over to my guys and fall in a spider web trap along the way.

I die.
 

 

I'm not being sarcastic in saying this but, it is the moment I remember the most, and one of the most enjoyable somehow. And even though for someone else that would've been horrible, it was fun. I miss the good ol days of being new and having no damn clue what I was doing.

 

 

 

I don't think I ever had a clue what I was doing.. Hahaha! 

[ski_king3 0]

Danny why you gotta drop that nostalgia bomb on me. I may be an Asulon baby, but still just ahhhhh!

 

I will probably talk good memories after my final today.

[mmat 7460]

Asulon Orc and Anthosian Sariant days were the best.

[Danny 2232]

11 minutes ago, trap_queen3 said:

Danny why you gotta drop that nostalgia bomb on me. I may be an Asulon baby, but still just ahhhhh!

 

I will probably talk good memories after my final today.

 

Whoops! 

 

9 minutes ago, iMattyz said:

Asulon Orc and Anthosian Sariant days were the best.

 

Damn, I forgot to mention the brilliant staff team that I worked with over the time. Matt, @Geo, @Freya , @Ever and @Gemmylou to mention a few. Even bloody staff meetings and the constant buzzing of the GM Skype chat sticks out as a memory... 

[Silent™ 552]

I'd have to say I most fondly remember living in my quaint little house at Winterfell in Aegis, and going over to Snowy fields to fight the Undead whenever I had the time.

 

Ah yes, the overwhelming power that the Undead had and the sheer exhilaration fighting against an enemy that you could never truly defeat. Good times.

[mmat 7460]

Just now, Danny said:

 

Whoops! 

 

 

Damn, I forgot to mention the brilliant staff team that I worked with over the time. Matt, @Géo, @Freya , @Ever and @Gemmylou to mention a few. Even bloody staff meetings and the constant buzzing of the GM Skype chat sticks out as a memory... 

 

:J The teamspeak banter will never be forgotten.

[Danny 2232]

1 minute ago, Silent™ said:

I'd have to say I most fondly remember living in my quaint little house at Winterfell in Aegis, and going over to Snowy fields to fight the Undead whenever I had the time.

 

Ah yes, the overwhelming power that the Undead had and the sheer exhilaration fighting against an enemy that you could never truly defeat. Good times.

 

I remember actually being psychically terrified of them.. That's not right for a bloody Minecraft server! The Undead really were a brilliant feature, and you're right, knowing you could never even win was so strangely entertaining.

 

Just now, iMattyz said:

 

:J The teamspeak banter will never be forgotten.

 

I miss you man.

[The Great Mongol Khan 1110]

Danny, you're a good person

[Danny 2232]

4 minutes ago, K said:

Danny, you're a good person

 

#Represent.

 

That ain't a memory of your time here though! No getting out of replying!

[The Great Mongol Khan 1110]

6 minutes ago, Danny said:

 

#Represent.

 

That ain't a memory of your time here though! No getting out of replying!

You're right, I'm an Asulon baby

[Danny 2232]

2 minutes ago, K said:

You're right, I'm an Asulon baby

 

Best memory of Asulon? Shoot.

[Onslaughted 920]

I'm getting to old for this

[xDK 1205]

(B)roseus Aquila... Vaquxine, Availer... Cloud Temple...

 

 

 

I still remember the Shuuhei company and the Aldealson family.. But I must say that the absolute favorite experience for me on LotC, was the Aegis raid on one of the Theives Guilds hideouts, it might be small, but it it was my first real experience on the server. Personally I to thank; WaZeBoomBox, Jens6851, Huwbert98, Grayslayer, Aviala & Rattalyn, with many more included. They were what made Aegis the best experience on the server, I have ever had.

 

 

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Gotta drop this, like I usually do every year.