Story Team Resources

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Story Team Resources

 

The Story Team Discord

The Story Team Discord is a discord which serve as a open communication between Story Team and players in everyday interactions. These can be simple lore questions, thoughts, debate, and talking to other players about server lore, or even your own submissions. This as well includes the announcements the ST makes, the Story Team Audit Log which covers our changes and hotfixes to lore, and the Loremag Results which publishes which pieces were accepted, denied, or put to pending. It’s a fantastic resource, and if you’re only interested in those few channels, they are announcement channels you can save to your own discord. 

 

 

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Lore Additions/Amendments

Addition - A new thing added to a lorepiece, be it a spell, ability, redline, and so on.

Amendment - A fix or change to a current lorepiece, either removing something or changing how a part of that lore functions or works.

 

When writing or reading lore, you’ll always notice flaws or inconsistencies. It’s our nature as people that we aren’t perfect, and that certainly reflects in our writing. If it’s something small or critical to understanding, like a spelling mistake, missing redlines between guide and lore, or even missing mechanics, contact the Story Team immediately. You do not need to make a submission for this and it will be applied immediately. 

 

When wanting to make a creative change or addition to your lore, you should write a submission. This should follow the format of highlighting or showing what has exactly been changed, added, or removed to your lore so that the Story Team can see the differences and make sure things are clearly put. Try and match the formatting of the original lore, so we (or yourself) can insert it into the lore cleanly and effortlessly. Once your lore has been accepted and implemented, it will be marked as “Implemented” on the lorepiece then put into the shelved section to mark it has been applied and to prevent redundancy. 

 

Small additions and amendments are reviewed by Story Management, while larger pieces are reviewed by the Lore Sect of Story Team as usual.

 

 

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Rewrite Wipes & Grandfathering

When writing a lore, or new lore to the server, people are grandfathered in at maximum tier and with a TA to be able to spread the magic, CA, or feat, to give it the best starting chance. In specific circumstances, this can be any time (Check General Information: Story Team Oversight). This will most often be 2-3 people, with five slots for taking on students.

 

When rewriting a lore, you may want to submit to Story Management a request to wipe the lore. Wiping the lore means effectively denying and removing all former applications revolving around the lore. This is not always accepted. The Story Team only truly considers wiping when absolutely necessary to a piece. Such as a bad prior community, lack of presence or spreading, large-scale change in the lore which warrants new or removed applications, and so on. For any reason, can Story Management veto a request to wipe a lorepiece. 

 

 

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Loremag Process & Admin Approval

The Loremag Process is one somewhat plain and simple. To make it short, a loremag is 4-6 lorepieces submitted to ST to review over a 9 day period typically. This includes 7 days of review where ST can leave their feedback on the piece. On the 8th day, a Lore Manager looks over the feedback and cross-references it with the lore to make sure everything checks out and adds up, and removes redundant feedback that multiple ST may have caught up on and summarizes what they had said. The lore is compiled and sent back to ST so they can see in totality what their feedback was, and make any final comments if they would like. On the 9th day, the lore is sent back to the write and posted in the loremag-results in the Story Discord. 

 

Before this process, the piece will sit in Lore Criteria & Submissions, waiting semi-chronologically until it is picked to go into mag. Always check the “Accepted-Stuff” google-sheet to see which pieces are in review, in compiling, on hold or even in queue. Queue is semi-chronological in the sense that we do not review things always in order of submission date. Given that this can lead to people submitting clusters of long or short lore submissions, we generally want to make sure voting isn’t a drag for the ST and to keep variety so that people can focus on voting on things which they are familiar with, and letting others make up for their less familiar areas. When writing or submitting lore, please do not contact ST for feedback or to read their lore. Providing feedback, working on, or reviewing lore before loremag review disallows an ST from voting on that piece.

 

Admin Approval is a policy implemented in early 2020 which acts as a check-and-balance to the Story Team and player submissions. Admin Approval is reserved for things new to the server like new magics and creatures alongside shelving processes (See General Information: Story Team Oversight), while ignoring things like event creatures, potions, herbs, and rewrites. This assures that not only Story Team and The Story Team Admin are held accountable, but Administration as a whole.