Greetings lord of the craft

[Liqquidity 109]

 

hello nice to meet you. I just joined and you can call me John of nau valdev (he is a guard in haense trying to become the worlds greatest detective) 
 

Anyways maybe you guys/gals could share some favorite lord of the craft stories to help expand my sense of the world? Is there a actual lord of the craft? Whats oren?

Edited July 12, 2024 by Liqquidity

[Unwillingly 18096]

hello, I saw you in Haense a couple of times doing guard work

 

21 minutes ago, Liqquidity said:

Anyways maybe you guys/gals could share some favorite lord of the craft stories to help expand my sense of the world?

I recently did some RP with my friend Kaiser where our elves were having a discussion on their royal upbringing and what they believe in. but because they were from basically two different generations of elves, one was older and the other was quite young still, they had a hard time getting along despite having similar ideas with one another and it made for a pretty cool dynamic

 

there's another one from my warlock character. some time at the end of last year I was in charge of one of the covens, but went on a couple month hiatus. when I came back, it was pretty much entirely changed, had new leadership and a bunch of colorful new people who subscribed to ways of thinking and ideologies my character did not, so he and his daughter (who shared his sentiment) declared war on this new coven, albeit partially out of spite that he no longer had a claim over it. it lead to some pretty cool RP, especially considering the leaders of this coven were once his closest friends and family

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1 hour ago, Liqquidity said:

(Idk what this server uses).

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@Greehn

[Liqquidity 109]

3 hours ago, Unwillingly said:

hello, I saw you in Haense a couple of times doing guard work

 

I recently did some RP with my friend Kaiser where our elves were having a discussion on their royal upbringing and what they believe in. but because they were from basically two different generations of elves, one was older and the other was quite young still, they had a hard time getting along despite having similar ideas with one another and it made for a pretty cool dynamic

 

there's another one from my warlock character. some time at the end of last year I was in charge of one of the covens, but went on a couple month hiatus. when I came back, it was pretty much entirely changed, had new leadership and a bunch of colorful new people who subscribed to ways of thinking and ideologies my character did not, so he and his daughter (who shared his sentiment) declared war on this new coven, albeit partially out of spite that he no longer had a claim over it. it lead to some pretty cool RP, especially considering the leaders of this coven were once his closest friends and family

wow maybe I need to make a elf guard . tjhanks for sharing

 

2 hours ago, creamynoteblock said:

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@Greehn

hmm looking quickly maybe something with the PDC . not worked on paper api before

[Gridlock 1033]

My favorite lotc moment of 2024 has to be accompanying you while you do prime whiterun guard rp.

[Aquachan1 4]

I live laugh love John. John is so amazing PLEASE KEEP SLAYING!!!!

[SethWolf 2340]

First off, welcome to LotC!

 

3 hours ago, Liqquidity said:

wow maybe I need to make a elf guard . thanks for sharing

 

Whilst I am a brainrot Haenser (terminal), I would highly recommend you making an elf as a sort of long-play challenge. They can live to be 1000 years (irl weeks) old so you'll have the character for atleast 19 real life years if you don't pk them. Creating an elf and going out of my way to exit my highlander-centric rp bubble has already taken me into some very fun places that I just wouldnt have gotten into otherwise.

 

 

 

As for my favorite story, it was back when I first started playing in Haense as the venerable Felix Weiss. One of the servants in the royal palace used voidal magic on someone - which was against the law. They were arrested and thrown into a cell, awaiting the arrival of a Jovennar, which is like the Haense version of like a high-judge at the time.

 

Well, the Jovennar arrives, and wishes to see the 'suspect', as it were. I, and a Crow Knight named Giovanna decide to enter the cell and escort the Jovennar inside the cell just incase they try to pull anything.

 

So the Jovennar takes their side of the story, and decided to perform a standard darkspawn test on them. At the time this sort of test was only administered for crimes like the ones she had committed - ie, the use of magic against someone else. They use a gold dagger on them to cut their hand - nothing. However, she holds her breath, for she knows what comes next.

 

The Jovennar took out a pinch of salt, and reached for her hand.

 

Boom, her face contorts to be almost cat-like with large fangs coming out of her mouth. She was a vampire! Shocked the hell out of us, but not before she lunged at the Jovennar and tried to rip her throat out. What ensued was Felix and Giovanna frantically wrestling in a death struggle in this tiny ass prison cell with a tied up feral vampire. Was great fun, and was also my first interaction with an actual vampire.

 

What followed was basically a military inquisition where we'd do no-knock raids on people's houses to test them, and then add their names to a registrar. Led to loads of conflict and irp consequences. The whole ordeal was great, and I don't think there was ever an instance of bad faith in the whole thing.

 

 

[Mio 3938]

8 hours ago, Liqquidity said:

hello nice to meet you.

hello! glad and moreover honored to see you've picked haense as your first home on LOTC. I joined haense back in 2020 at the start of covid and through lockdown I feel in a sense the diverse community and the (several) encouraging leaderships who swapped the mantle over time had in a way raised me through my younger years.

I'm sure with time you will begin to realize more and more, if you do hopefully stick around, that haense is far more than just a minecraft nation but really a community in full that extends beyond LOTC with numerous people who will be there for you should you need it.

 

8 hours ago, Liqquidity said:

(he is a guard in haense trying to become the worlds greatest detective)

Ironically enough, one of my lord of the craft stories begins in relatively the same path as you.

I had just joined Haense as suggested by a player named Miniguy through discord - who I had never spoken to before, but he was ever helpful and committed to bringing me into the community as he was the Lord Marshal of Haense. He sent out a soldier in the BSK by the name of Bjornolf (rep2k) who introduced me to the city, showed me around, recommended a few places of work, and suggested I join the BSK which I put off to, "maybe another day".

I initially pursued a position in the hospital, hoping to do alchemy and medicine and I very quickly found out within a week that doing medic RP would lead me to working alongside the BSK anyway! So while I declined at first, I witnessed enough PVP trainings, arrests (leading to executions), and really overall the brotherhood the BSK displayed and said **** medic RP and enlisted.

With time, I grinded up to a Lieutenant and soon enough, with a group of three other players, within the BSK we formed a sub-group dubbed the RHMP (Royal Haeseni Military Police). We focused on detective work, interrogations, and the King, Sigismund II (seannie) - had granted us a small Blacksite area for our questionable (YET EFFECTIVE) work. I had once chased one of our perps all the way from Haense to Oren on Arcas (two maps ago, ended in 2020) by foot, with both of us running out of food half way, me and one of the guys were in VC the whole time and instead of chasing he had turned the other way to grab a horse first (clutch). I just remember fondly it feeling like torture walk-chasing after someone for what felt like twenty minutes. Soon enough my horse guy caught up and unfortunately the perp ended up turning the situation super weird and I called a mod and they got banned instead of arrested. These things happen, don't get discouraged by it if it happens to you, one bad apple don't ruin the batch.

I pursued another one really big case IRP (big to us, at least) but one thing you will find with kind of detective RP is that evidence on minecraft and really in any kind of medieval period is difficult to impossible - but with letters being a newer modern addition it could be easier, I wouldn't know! I do remember though that we got two or three BSK soldiers to false-testify once (probably more), rehearsing the finest details of the story and that was fun.

That's one of the "tamer" memories I have, a lot of my core ones are from raiding / battles / wars, but there's a lot of roleplay moments that stick with me and I sometimes wonder if in a decade out I will still remember them. Hopefully now you know what you can expect, what can be accomplished, and really the bounds of what's possible (which is a lot). The more work you put in and the more people can trust in your competence the more likely it will be that they will go out of the typical boundaries to grant you room for ******* around and having fun. A lot of it realistically and especially in nation RP, is about proving yourself if you wish to achieve whatever you desire.

Before you know it you'll be the one pulling the lever on the gallows to execute a criminal or even the BSK officer bossing others around - or getting them to false testify. Or maybe your AI will be doing it and we won't even know.
 

1 hour ago, SethWolf said:

Whilst I am a brainrot Haenser (terminal), I would highly recommend you making an elf as a sort of long-play challenge. They can live to be 1000 years (irl weeks) old so you'll have the character for atleast 19 real life years if you don't pk them. Creating an elf and going out of my way to exit my highlander-centric rp bubble has already taken me into some very fun places that I just wouldnt have gotten into otherwise.

Obligatory reply to this because humanity is simply superior to any kind of race and I disagree with Seth's philosophy but seth I love you regardless.

I wouldn't say it's so much about how much time you have with a character to do something but how much you can make of the time you have. I've played about six humans in four years, and with this you give yourself the opportunity to give characters different gists, personalities, allegiances, roles - without having to force all those personalities into one character for a long haul. If you're to play an elf I would recommend it be simply because you want to play an elf and not because you want to play the same character for a decade straight. Ending off a character and writing that last chapter in their story good or bad will make you look back on the entire character in a different light.

One trap I think a lot of newer players fall into is starting a second character really early and trying to "split their time" between the two. Some people may disagree I'm not sure the consensus on this but as your first character do EVERYTHING you wish and play your first one out until you feel their story is complete, however brief or long that may be. Don't save something you want to pursue for your "next character", the best part about roleplay and storytelling is how fluid it is to your desires, so fulfill them.
 

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if only i had the foresight to invest in nvidia back then instead of screenshots for nostalgia. 

 

[Samson Option 9652]

8 hours ago, Liqquidity said:

 

hello nice to meet you. I just joined and you can call me John of nau valdev (he is a guard in haense trying to become the worlds greatest detective) . I work as a software engineer in AI/ML and funny story I got into it by building Minecraft mods back in the day. Lately im putting together a way to feed Minecraft chat logs into chatgpt API to be processed by custom gpt's or a self-hosted storyteller LLM . I think this could make for some funny NPC-type characters or be used in narrative crafting or maybe be a framework to create dynamic NPC's through something like the spigot API (Idk what this server uses).
 

Anyways maybe you guys/gals could share some favorite lord of the craft stories to help expand my sense of the world? Is there a actual lord of the craft? Whats oren?

 

I made Oren my son back in 1.0. Now? Oren is but a fleeting dream.

[Liqquidity 109]

14 hours ago, SethWolf said:

 

just another day for a cop walking the beat lol. I like that story thanks for sharing. I still dont really know what a darkspawn is but maybe John will track one down someday
 

 

13 hours ago, Mio said:

 

sounds like you were a hell of a cop and you made those perps sweat. I figured i would just be a corrupt cop and fabricate+plant evidence but dont tell anyone. appreciate sharing your memories

 

12 hours ago, Ibn Khaldun said:

 

I made Oren my son back in 1.0. Now? Oren is but a fleeting dream.

I keep seeing oren but no one will tell me what it is

[sapphic_spidy 1089]

you have genuinely been so fun to interact with the few times we have (arabella here hi) and have made me laugh thank you