Introductions in order

[Medvekoma 2073]

Alright, found it was about time I did some proper introductions here on LOTC.

 

Some of you may have met me already in-character, some of you may only see this and cringe at the faint arrogance radiating from my words. Either way, if you opened this thread and read so far, I could at least make a pun or two or provide some decent entertainment. Or not.

 

 

 

Oh yes, this is bloody long, so feel free to just smile and wave while shifting away.

 

 

 

Who am I, you'd ask? A student, male, twenty-one, born in the walled-up country of Hungary and the beautiful and cheap party capital of Budapest. Yet I've spent most of my life recently in Durham, an equally beautiful (but rather lame when it comes to party) town in the far Northeast of the United Kingdom. It's a British town with an oversized cathedral, a fine viaduct, the officially worst night-club in Europe and a bunch of awesome old English people speaking that one funny accent from the first Fable game.

 

I study economics, but to be frank, I'm rather knowledgeable about anything that doesn't directly contribute to humanity. So unless you inquire about biology or chemistry, I can stretch our talk to the point we'll end up discussing alternate versions of World War two anyways (a complaint I often receive, albeit I hold myself to the fact that it goes WW1 at least 20% the times). History? I'm a europhile, but love it. Mathematics? First in class for thirteen years and competed each year. Languages? I'm fluent in three while learning the fourth (and have the most useless as my native). Politics? Unless you have something against Margaret Thatcher or Milton Friedman, we can talk. Geography? Competed, even won a lovely book, sad thing it was German and thus twice the pages it should have been. Philosophy? Fourteenth in country, a friend and long-time discussion partner right behind me on fifteenth. Physics? Took advanced physics for the fun of it, I'll probably never use it. And yes, I've visited two nuclear reactors for the sake of it and took part in a conference on the matter in Berlin, because I just like the idea of nuclear power. Writing? We can trade short stories, although I'm working on a novel right now. Economics? I'd ask to skip that. I often venture off to discuss finances and economics despite the fact that 99% my studies revolve around it and when not attending a lecture or specifically studying I usually prefer to skip the topic.

 

And yes, there was a hint for my hobby. I enjoy the grimdark and the less happy themes that leave you thinking more than celebrating. As such, I often watch movies, read stories, roleplay on the internet and write my own tales. When it comes to the latter one, I'm fully obsessed with the 18th century, in terms of culture, warfare, architecture ... anything except for wigs. I hate those bloody white wigs. My all-time favourite movie is either ******, Shawshank Redemption or the newest rendition of Les Misérables, depends on the mood in which I am when you ask me. For books, I admit I read far less than I supposed to and indulge myself more in reviews and summaries because I fail to dedicate the time to one book, and when I do I read them in one sitting. Yes, the last book I read I picked up on the train starting off home and put down on the airplane before it landed 9 hours later. But I do adore Malevil and Brave New World. My favourite philosopher is Nietzsche, favourite continent is Europe and my favourite phenomenon in physics is the reaction of non newtonian fluids to sound waves. Oh yes, I also sketch stuff, most of the time landscape / architecture sketches for my novel.

 

Here's some, all drawn with a pair of Parker Urban and Sonnet fountain pens, and I use no ink remover or whatsoever (if I draw a line, it stays there and I work with it): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (pictures in greyscale, originally with black ink that had the weird issue of turning brown after exposure to sunlight).

 

Oh yes, and I'm a Game of Thrones fan as well, although pretty-much newborn. I didn't follow each episode, merely summaries up until season six, but for that I finally ended up with friends sharing the obsession with whom I could sit down and swallow every episode in the early mornings of British Mondays. I'm an all-time Lannister fan, with a special place for Cersei in my heart, with Tyrion and Littlefinger just below. I don't really know what binds me to love Cersei as a character, it surely isn't her wit, tact, probably her compelling character and the way Lena Headey keeps up that smug smile and fake badass attitude whatever happens.

 

Apart from that, I did Judo for 13 years but stopped because I realised it was rather boring, only doing the Seiryoku Zen'yo Kokumin Taiiku no Kata sometimes. Instead, I took the now-obsession of walking everywhere that's within the radius of 15 kilometres (about three hours of forced march). Today specifically I had 7 kilometres, which is a bit more than four miles for the Imperialistic fellows here. I'm an avid meat eater devouring anything from the smallest fish to ribs, but I fancy birds the most doused with BBQ sauce. And I'm infamous for my ability to down cider, my favoured drink. I listen to a lot of music genres that range from classical to black metal, although I can't take rap, hip-hop or techno/dubstep. My definite favourite band is Iron Maiden. And yes, you are right to presume that I'm a metalhead. While I'd prefer you imagine me as a polar bear (since Medve-koma means bear-buddy), if you desperately need to imagine my looks then think about a tall guy with long and wavy chocolate locks and a magical amount of facial hair that allows neither a clean shave nor a decently dense beard that doesn't look like a desperate attempt to mimic Dmitri from Grand Budapest Hotel.

 

When it comes to minecraft, I started off in Beta, back in glorious '11. I kept seeing all the build screenshots on 9gag and approached my friendo in school who's usually familiar with the subnerd-culture. Asked what it was, said it was a game of picking and placing blocks, lofted a pair of brows and squinted at him, he told me to bloody try it before the weird stare. Sat down, opened up the lovely cracked version (from back in the days where you could just download the .exe from minecraft.net and play single without an account or whatsoever) and created a single-player world.

 

It was fabulous, that I must say. I had no idea what the hell I was doing, didn't even know smoothstone could be mined or tools could be crafted, I just built random formations from dirt and explored the world. That was back in April, May saw me actually learning the game and building my first castle which looked like a Vogon spaceship. In June, I started venturing to different multiplayer servers with my brother who soon grew tired of griefing and gave up playing minecraft. Found a lovely server with a community, joined, gained some little fame, but like most cracked servers back in the days it shut down.

 

Community moved over to the other server, I became fairly well-known there by the autumn of 2011, became co-leader of a faction, we conquered all others on the server (we were PvP twats) and I became staff there. Lovely story, but after more than half a year the server shut down in July 2012. Late 2014 my minecraft journey was literally going from shard to shard that remained after that one original community I first joined. I was offered staff most of the time, help managed servers until owners left then went to the next and so on.

 

Some buildings of mine. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

They aren't messy medieval, but welp. I still love them.

 

In 2014 I gave up and joined a larger server, became server architect there, built some stuff and infrastructure then resigned in March to prepare for my end of high-school exams. Yet after my exams I felt empty without minecraft and the usually geeking in the evenings. That was the time I begun missing the DnD sessions I used to have and decided ... why not try minecraft roleplay? Whatever, I looked around servers, laid my eyes on Lord of the Craft and ...

 

... saw the whitelist, backed away and chose to start off on another server. Honest, I know, but I'm one of the players who was scared away by the whitelist procedure. But more on that later. I joined another server and made my first original character in a good while.

 

Aye, only thing I remembered was that evil characters bring just that more instigation, action and fun compared to white knights. So my first character ended up being a psycho who attained a fair share of power in a faction (notice the ombre hooded girl skin from skindex ... trust me, at least a good share of those using those skins simply don't care enough or haven't gotten into RP yet, they aren't all noobs. I tend to pretend I wasn't), and had lots of good storylines that bound me to Minecraft roleplay forever. We decided to pack up the good RPers from the faction and move on to the "central" hub of roleplay on the mentioned server, where I had my second main character* (June, first character with custom skin made by yours truly), an alcoholic schemer with little regards to morals and more attention for self-preservation and excessive promiscuous behaviour. Now that was loads of fun, but I switched to a more serious character*, my third one, in August. I became staff on the server during the Autumn and remained such until my resignation and departure earlier in June.

 

This character lasted for ... a really, really long while. She became both famous and infamous, achieved great things in RP but most of all had lots of funny and enjoyable drama. I really loved the character, and I kept her for a whole of half a year until March where I shelved her due a plethora of reasons (detailed later). I designed a character that was in most ways her complete opposite for the sake of fun, my fourth child*, whom I played up until my switch to LOTC in early June. Here I have my sweet Karina* (skin currently on my MC account) so far, and nothing more right now. Next to these four noble ladies, I played an ... extensive cast of other characters, mostly for fun or side entertainment. A serial killer, a pirate*, a mercenary*, a goon*, a hyper-aggressive hobo, a crazy old guy prophetising things that already happened, an orc warrior*, a crazy plant-woman-journalist*, an opium-addicted noble daughter who kept spiking drinks*, a slithering, mathematics obsessed head of a cannibalistic and creepy family*,  and all the others I've all forgotten about and didn't play for more than 24 hours. All *s are skins made by yours truly, rest are heavily-altered skins from planet MC or skindex. I know my skins are usually out of place because of the sheer vibrance I put on them, although that's with a different point. I'm an expressionist when it comes to skins and care more about inducing a general sense, feeling or aura with a skin than to make them "realistic" or "artistic".

 

For the whitelist procedure, I ... don't know why. I wasn't the de-facto noob roleplayer, I wasn't afraid of applying. It simply "was" preventing me from choosing LOTC first-hand, for one reason or the other. And looking back at the serious issues that faced my whitelist application (wrote it in half an hour, posted it, review post on it half an hour later, approved after ten minutes, implemented in half an hour, whole ordeal didn't take an evening), I have no idea what kept me from doing it in the first place.

 

Those paying attention may have noticed that out of the 15 characters mentioned, there's only two males despite myself being a male OOC. The reason for that is specifically the first male character I roleplayed, the pirate one. I hold myself to it that I don't roleplay for escapism but for story-driving and drama. And with that, I make conscious effort to avoid self-insertion, which proved to be really hard playing a male character. Even in his looks, as the character molded it started resembling me so I scrapped the pirate soon enough.

 

Why I fear self-insertion that much? One of the many reasons why I scrapped my long-term character I played for half a year. I felt threatened myself whenever the character was threatened, I assumed for the connection that ... developed? That could be the word, developed over six months of playing her. I felt anxiety whenever she had to overcome an obstacle in character, and I kept plotting schemes for her while sitting in lectures. In a desperate attempt of re-design I stripped her of the only two things we had in common, a hobby of hers and views on religion, but it didn't help much. She mostly developed naturally, although I'm pretty sure my personality steered her a bit. And in the end it felt more of a chore to play her, to "preserve her" at any cost.

 

Which leads to my main point about roleplay. I don't roleplay to "develop my character", I want to believe I roleplay to "develop a story" which I enjoy taking part in, much like a book or a movie. And (you may notice I often roleplay traitors, schemers, backstabbers or people who play the risk) as soon as there's the "character preservation" attitude, my enjoyment of roleplay ceases. Going to stop here because this kind-of turned into a rant anyways and I ran out of puns and funny things to say anyways. And if you've read it this far, I'm pretty sure you'd prefer I stopped so that you can finally make that one comment about "holy **** I've read all of it" or whatever you fancy. Cheers.

 

I'll just ... add anything that comes to my mind here at the very end. That.

 

Any questions? Feel free to ask and I'll try to answer them.

[Equinox 245]

I-I'm just ... okay... Welcome? I-I don't even know..

 

//Walks away, shivering uncontrollably.\\

[Guest]

How cool is Budapest? 

[Kim 1328]

tldr ??! :'(

[Angmarzku 1251]

Hi, Med. Did not know we might've been neighbours.

[AntonVoron 39]

*Ctrl F's for signs of Massivecraft*

[Wulfric 472]

greeterlings to you

[Medvekoma 2073]

12 minutes ago, aerialkebab said:

How cool is Budapest? 

 

It's not as cool as London or Berlin, but cheaper which makes it more suitable for parties. I only ever had two mugs of beer in London but paid my pants for it. Same quids can buy you five in Berlin or fifteen in Budapest.

 

12 minutes ago, Tahmas said:

Hi.

 

Hi. Nice to ... uhm, meet you. That.

 

11 minutes ago, Angmarzku said:

Hi, Med. Did not know we might've been neighbours.

 

Now we know, at least. Anyhow, I've yet to cross the mountains to the other half of your country. First thing I'll do is visit Peles castle if I ever get back there.

 

11 minutes ago, AntonVoron said:

*Ctrl F's for signs of Massivecraft*

 

Shoosh. I triple-checked.

 

Also, have you heard what they said on the news today?

 

 

Done getting a vote of no confidence in no time.

[Ducklingator 795]

I can't read this whole thing,

but I saw the number 21 so I'm good to go.

[idiot 502]

49 minutes ago, Equinox said:

I-I'm just ... okay... Welcome? I-I don't even know..

 

//Walks away, shivering uncontrollably.\\

Explains what I was going to say.

This is true dedication on this introduction post.

 

Welcome!

[Jonificus 2741]

hey-ho welcome to the rodeo

[herculean_wud 3662]

hi

[Grumpy 10]

yes.

[Queen 140]

 

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