[AMA] the magic number...

[Toffee 2843]

7 hours ago, NightOfTheWind said:

1. Three snacks you can't live without?
2. Did you have any characters from any books or movies or something that inspired one of your characters?

3. Favorite type of LOTC biome, or if you were to design a custom one yourself, what would it be like?
4. If you were in the LOTC universe where would you live? (any time period)
5. Each of your character's favorite foods.

 

1. these three items are genuinely at the top of my recommended "buy again" online groceries order (which makes me seem like an almond mom)

 

 

2. In Josephine's later life, when she was at her most ill and addicted to alchemical potions, I drew a lot of inspiration from the protagonist Tillie in Opium & Absinthe by Lydia Kang. Tillie becomes addicted to laudanum following an injury, so I tried to bring that through to Josephine's emotes

 

3. Aside from the braided river I already mentioned, I really, really like the Illivira build and how it transformed that beach to something truly magical. If I could build or terraform at all, I would probably do a lot of tidepools, wetlands, and underwater/beachside/cliffside caves with interesting and explorable features. I like having little nooks and crannies that are easy to miss and can be discovered even a few months into a map.

 

4. I would probably live in Balian in Aevos -- warm, sunny, get to wear pretty flowy clothes, lots of orchards and gardens around, proximity to the sea. My ideal life would be to live in the d'Arkent villa (Salia) and just chill out on the patios reading a book and going for an afternoon swim. Plus, that build is/was gorgeous

 

5. hmmmmmmm I'm just gonna answer for active characters + characters I spent a lot of time on

 

Illynora -- some sort of seafood prepared over an open fire (preferably by her daughter Medli @RainbowRoad1234, I headcanon that Illynora can make excellent medicines but sucks at cooking)

 

Josephine -- some sort of fruit like tangerine or pomegranate

 

Adalfriede -- a cigarette and a stiff drink

 

Elenwë -- pear wine from the famous Almenorean pear trees :)

 

Erika -- anything her sister Primrose baked (rip primrose @LuxyLucy)

 

Saoirse -- candied walnuts

 

6 hours ago, rigorous said:

snip

 

trendsetters, unc status 😎

 

4 hours ago, Cheese said:

what's your favorite kind of soup

 

very specifically this soup

 

 

i feel like at this point I'm just giving people my supermarket wishlist

[juliaINC 592]

if you were in charge of directing a movie/TV series based on LOTC, what time period and setting would you choose? who would be the main characters, and what storylines would you want to see on screen?

i've been thinking about this and i'm curious what old woman toffee thinks

[Toffee 2843]

On 6/6/2025 at 3:11 AM, juliaINC said:

if you were in charge of directing a movie/TV series based on LOTC, what time period and setting would you choose? who would be the main characters, and what storylines would you want to see on screen?

 

without a doubt, the period leading up to and immediately after the Aster Revolution in Oren. I was working on a novelisation of it for a while before it tapered off and I lost interest after getting to about 180,000 words. Maybe one day I'll post snippets of where I got up to!

 

It followed my character Josephine and her long lost sister Moliana @UnBaed as the two POV characters, tracking their entrance into Imperial society alongside their mother, the Imperial princess Charlotte Augusta, who at one stage was going to be the Holy Orenian Empress after her marriage to the heir, Prince Philip Aurelian. Then of course that all collapsed when Philip Amadeus and Anastasia rolled up in the Aster Revolution. I reckon it would make for great tv haha

[MunaZaldrizoti 8037]

First off, thank you for navigating this wild server experience with me these last 4-5 years now. Our meeting eachother and becoming friends has been one of the best things to come out of LOTC! 💗

 

1. What is some sort of roleplay experience or story you'd still like to tell on the server?
2. Your favorite RP memory/story with me?
3. If there were 2-3 historical figures or real world subjects that you feel inspire your roleplay, who or what would those be?

Love youuuuuuuu!!!!

 

[Toffee 2843]

On 6/10/2025 at 8:54 AM, MunaZaldrizoti said:

1. What is some sort of roleplay experience or story you'd still like to tell on the server?
2. Your favorite RP memory/story with me?
3. If there were 2-3 historical figures or real world subjects that you feel inspire your roleplay, who or what would those be?

 

Ily ❤️❤️

 

1. A story that I would want to tell but won't because of many, many reasons is an arranged political marriage with a character from a vastly different culture than the one she's marrying into. I think that has the potential for some really cool dynamics and tension, but I don't think the server is set up to be able to do things like that organically. Something I CAN do which I've always wanted to do and is more feasible now that I'm more and more inactive, is have Illynora be a kind of "witch in the woods" who comes out to give prophecies and do divination for people whenever she's asked :)

 

2. Obviously the Charlotte/Josephine and Milena/Erika storylines have a very very special place in my heart, so it's difficult to pick just one memory! Something that stands out for me actually is the interactions between Ioanna and Adalfriede, particularly the one in the palace when Ioanna came to gift some wine. I liked the political aspects of those interactions, these two women going toe to toe with a lot said in the subtext rather than the actual words they were saying to one another. Ioanna would have made a great queen ;)

 

3. I'd say Adalfriede was inspired in part by Catherine the Great, Olga of Kiev, and Livia Drusilla, and she was probably my most intense and distinctive character. The others I think aren't so much inspired by real historical figures as they are general historical fiction/fantasy tropes!