7 years AMA yayy

[Telmster 130]

it has been exactly 7 years since i joined. crazy. i pretty much spent all my teenage years on LOTC and now i'm about to graduate from university! i have kind of a love-hate relationship with this server but at the end of the day i'm grateful for what it brought me. some of you are really nice people. <33

 

ask me questions. please . i beg . im going to die of embarrassment if i get none. 

[Gnomeh 470]

I'll ask the classic question. What has been your favorite Roleplay moment of the server?

[KeiaTypeBeat 3277]

What keeps you playing on the server?

 

What impactful advice would you share with yourself as a new player 7 years ago?

 

Will you play my next daughter?

 

What would you want to see most from sorvians? What do you think the CA / FA could benefit from the most?

 

How are you doing?

 

38 minutes ago, Telmster said:

im going to die of embarrassment if i get none. 

So real btw

[Benleft 2579]

Are there any positive changes to the server you feel you have contributed to? Small or big, something now that is changed for the better than how it was when you arrived. 

[Monty Cobra 921]

If you had to play a brand new character right now, what kind of character would it be?

 

Coolest event or plotline you've ever been part of? Your favorite parts of RP in general?

 

Are there any MAs or CAs that you've never played but would have liked to?

[Telmster 130]

32 minutes ago, Gnomeh said:

I'll ask the classic question. What has been your favorite Roleplay moment of the server?

It's hard to pinpoint one so I'll just name a couple of moments that stuck with me!

Fighting the inferi during the Arcas end of map event. Having Landskar play on my birthday yayy. FInally getting attuned after a nearly 2 year dedicancy. Parion's Athera event. When @RMW01's Amber taught Meta how to draw that was so cute. 

 

15 minutes ago, RezRatKeia said:

What keeps you playing on the server?

 

What impactful advice would you share with yourself as a new player 7 years ago?

 

Will you play my next daughter?

 

What would you want to see most from sorvians? What do you think the CA / FA could benefit from the most?

 

How are you doing?

 

 

1. good question. my activity comes and goes in waves and sometimes I take long hiatuses in which I imagine I might never come back but at the end of the day I'm never as creative as I am when I am locked in on LOTC. I can spend hourssss drawing and writing things related to my characters. & the community has generally been very nice to me, too! 

2. Don't overthink it. Genuinely. Don't worry about whether your English is good enough, don't worry about being 'cringe', don't worry about approaching people irp. I was so anxious for no reason when this game is supposed to be fun! 

 

3. probably not :( I'm currently focusing more on IRL and I fear that starting a new character would re-trigger my LOTC hyperfixation </33 

4. oooo another good one. honestly, I feel like the CA is in a pretty good place right now. though I will say that one thing I have enjoyed a lot with Meta is really leaning into the 'nature vs nurture' bit and starting with a pretty blank slate. it has been so fun to watch her develop organically and she's come such a long way since I started playing her 3 years ago ! it's not something i would change or implement lore-wise, but i'd just really encourage other players to consider the depth you can get in terms of character development with a Sorvian. of course they can just be silly little whimsical dudes from the start & playing a drawn out 'robot develops into a person' arc isnt for everyone but its been incredibly fun for me :)) 

5. i'm doing great actually!! genuinely so excited for what the future holds for me now that I'm looking at master's programmes. i'm really lucky to be super passionate about what i'm studying & i'm surrounded by people i love.

if any minors are reading this please don't let the people of lotc scare you into being afraid of growing up <3 real life can be scary but it can also be so fun!

 

[Telmster 130]

25 minutes ago, Benleft said:

Are there any positive changes to the server you feel you have contributed to? Small or big, something now that is changed for the better than how it was when you arrived. 

 

I wish! I don't think I've ever really been relevant enough as a player to achieve something like that. like I genuinely cannot think of anything whoops. I think there have been lots of positive changes to the server since I joined but I can't take credit for any of them! 

 

 

6 minutes ago, Monty Cobra said:

If you had to play a brand new character right now, what kind of character would it be?

 

Coolest event or plotline you've ever been part of? Your favorite parts of RP in general?

 

Are there any MAs or CAs that you've never played but would have liked to?

 

I'd like to play something evil! I've never even dabbled into villainy at all aside from robbing halfling houses as a new player (sorry halfling community ily). I think it would be fun to sort of explore that side of rp too! alternatively I'd like to play a character that actually generates rp for other people. like a quest-giver of sorts. someone who is really meant to just be a side character for other people to allow them to have more fun & maybe inspire them to do something new!

 

I think Aevos' map antag eventline is definitely up there due to how much I got to be involved & how much character development that got me! That has been really fun. I also get really invested into other people's character's plotlines and as u know Njáll's whole arc has been one of my favourites <333 if LOTC was a book he would be the protagonist.

at the end of the day I don't think I'll ever escape my slice of life box but it has been really nice honestly. just watching relationships change and develop, from the gut-wrenching angsty rp that sticks with you for a few days to the most wholesome interactions that make me smile at my screen like an absolute loser. and especially the balance between those moments is really nice :))

 

honestly there's so many things i've never played. aside from Sorvians, alchemy, druidism and bardmancy I haven't touched a thing. so literally anything would be cool!! as i mentioned before something evil would be really cool for in the future since i haven't really interacted with that at all. also shamanism. shamanism is cool. 

 

[fizzyquack 564]

Has Meta ever died?? 

[Telmster 130]

6 minutes ago, fizzyquack said:

Has Meta ever died?? 

 

Never! She's only even been injured 4 times in all the 3 years I've played her, actually, and 2 of those injuries took place during mass antag events (& the other two took place within a week of each other, funnily enough!) 

[RockyTheWolf 209]

Hi Tel! 

Three questions

One - Your favorite character you've ever played on LOTC?

Two - Do you have a favorite moment in lotc?

Three - Who's meta's favorite cousin [and is it Akuvae?]

 

[Telmster 130]

4 minutes ago, RockyTheWolf said:

Hi Tel! 

Three questions

One - Your favorite character you've ever played on LOTC?

Two - Do you have a favorite moment in lotc?

Three - Who's meta's favorite cousin [and is it Akuvae?]

 

hi rocky!!

 

1. Meta. For sure!! Easy winner. Though honourable mentions go to my druid Lei and my halfling Bear. I've played a few other characters too (Elowyn, Delia, Dorothy, and Raelyn) but they werent as memorable to me.

 

2. I answered this earlier by giving a list of a few different fun moments because I cant think of 1 big moment. So I will simply expand on this list by giving a few more fun moments!
Meta getting a palmreader tarot reading & finding out she was going to be an adventurer.  The entirety of Kalldur. The lodestone eventline in Haelun'or on my old character Elowyn. Having Meta confront her old friend at the Black Church. Lei's teenage years in Haelun'or. Bear's shenanigans with @salamanderfantasy's Sorrel. When Meta was adopted by a human after feeling like an outsider for so long. All the rp with professor Elijah @docHP& their little project. The first weeks of playing Meta when she was learning so much (& she got to look up to the Redshroud Sorvians. shoutout to Itulan he was my favourite). 

& there's so many more !! i've never really experienced any one impactful hero 'saving the world' moment or anything like that but i've had so many little encounters that have shaped my characters and i appreciate them all. 

 

3. absolutely akuvae is the best cousin ever <3333

[silariathas 112]

have you had any remarkable “full circle” moments with any of ur characters? I love when somehow separate storylines & side quests seem to relate and can be connected

[salamanderfantasy 1340]

2 hours ago, Telmster said:

 Bear's shenanigans with @salamanderfantasy's Sorrel. 

I think the shenanigans were what got me seriously into roleplay on the whole in the end


A question for YOUUUU

How do you feel your lotc experience has changed after that extended break you took? Comparing the then and now. Does it feel overall different or similar to how you'd play before/ what  kind of experience you have whilst playing? Interested if lotc feels any different to someone who took a break vs to me who's been playing throughout the whole time. 

[Telmster 130]

1 hour ago, silariathas said:

have you had any remarkable “full circle” moments with any of ur characters? I love when somehow separate storylines & side quests seem to relate and can be connected

this is such a fun question i had to think about it for a while. i do actually have one that fits really well but i dont wanna put it out on the forums due to metagaming concerns LOLLL rip. but i have another one kind of!

 

 it relates to like meta's whole arc of becoming a person and whatnot. back when Meta was made, there was the Redshroud group of Sorvians that she really looked up to, but when that fizzled out she really just spent all her time with descendantkind & she wanted to be just like them. her little pinocchio arc. she became such a good mimicry that at this point she has been accepted into several descendant families, people treat her like one of their own, and she herself considers herself a person. but then at the same time she has always kept idolizing this group of 'wise sorvians' that used to be around, hoping that they'd ever come back. 

 

and then recently she actually did get the chance to be with a whole gaggle of Sorvians that were genuinely very reminiscent of those she used to know 150+ in game years ago. and it was like really genuinely super awkward where everything meta has learned to do to fit in actually made her stand out. it was soooo fun to realize that she had actually become 'too human' for those sorvians. like that was such a fun full circle moment where she has spent her entire life feeling too sorvian for descendantkind and suddenly she felt too descendant-y for sorviankind. meta ily but you would not fit in with ur old friend group anymore <333 

 

37 minutes ago, salamanderfantasy said:

I think the shenanigans were what got me seriously into roleplay on the whole in the end


A question for YOUUUU

How do you feel your lotc experience has changed after that extended break you took? Comparing the then and now. Does it feel overall different or similar to how you'd play before/ what  kind of experience you have whilst playing? Interested if lotc feels any different to someone who took a break vs to me who's been playing throughout the whole time. 

 

I have taken several breaks and I can't really pinpoint a major one that was a turning point but overall LOTC feels incredibly different to me now compared to what it used to feel like! I think I have a much easier time seeing it for what it is, now; a storytelling platform and a game, as opposed to like an actual way of living LOL . i used to have so much anxiety surrounding it and all of that is gone now bcs i know that my day will not be ruined if someone ignores an emote one time, & if i don't want to rp something i literally just. dont. whenever i feel that lotc is not making me as happy as it should be i can genuinely just take a break because I know that there is more to life than this block game. and on the flip side, if i feel bored, i literally just go up to people and start rp. even when there's only 40 people on the server! u only need 1 person to start rp, and other people are likely bored and they will join. unlocking that was a game-changer.

 

and also i've started seeing it wayyy more as a collaborative storytelling experience! it's not just about my characters vs the world. i don't envy other people's characters and storylines like I used to because I'm happy viewing even the stories that aren't mine, and if I can play even a little part in them that's great! getting invested into other people's characters has been such a positive change because instead of the 'I wish I got to do that, i never get xyz' feeling I'll get a 'that's so cool please tell me more' feeling now which is infinitely more enjoyable. 

 

 

this response was way too long bcs i'm procrastinating going to bed but these were some great questions ty <3333