Piggy Bank's Application

piggy bank · February 11, 2012

Out-Of-Character:

Minecraft Account Name:

budda01.

Did you attend minecon and sign up at the LOTC booth?:

No. but if I could have I would have.

How old are you?:

16 years old.

Time-Zone/Country of Residence:

UTC/GMT +8 hours. (Western Australia)

Do you have a good grip on the English language/good grammar?:

Indubitably. I also study French

Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself:

My name is Bodhi Vale. I love to play games especially RP games. I work very hard at school so that I can have the time to play games.

How much time could you be on the server weekly?:

5 to 30 hours a week. Even more maybe.

What do you know about Roleplaying? Give a definition of what it means to you.:

Roleplaying is where you step into someone else’s shoes and become them. When roleplaying you must speak how the person whos role you’re playing would speak, walk how they would walk and adventure out into the world as they would.

In your own Words, describe what Metagaming and Powergaming are.

meta gaming is where you use outside sources to help your character get the upper hand on someone or some part of a game. Power gaming is where you can do anything and not fail. Like fighting someone, killing them and then not being hit yourself.

What do you expect this server will be like?:

I have seen a couple of you tube videos and to me it looks like a lot of people mining, role playing and building up to the occasional war.

What other server(s) have you played on and why did you leave them?:

A couple of friends servers and several listed planet mine craft servers. I left my friends servers because they are no longer running and got bored with online servers because of the lack of people on.

Have you read, understood, and agreed to the rules?:

Yes.

How did you hear about us?:

Through a friend.

Have you voted for the Lord of the Craft on Minestatus? Which vote number were you?

Yes. vote #1520

What is your The Lord Of Craft forum account name?:

piggy bank

In-Character:

Character Name:

Morruk Anvlay.

What is your Race?:

Dwarf.

Biography(This should include the history of your character and his life as well as age, appearance and personality, etc.):

My name is Morruk Anvlay, I was born on what was believed to be a Sunday, however being underground it was hard to tell. I was the last of four children to my father Kale Anvalay and my mother Joren Anvlay.

I grew up underground where my family made a living through mining, I got my first pickaxe at the age of five from my father. I enjoyed mining and I managed to find the odd iron ore to help my family. However on one unfortunately day I was mining with my brother Zeema when the mine started to collapse. I was frozen with fear but my brother manage to pick me up and run for his life before we were crushed by every miners worst nightmare, gravel… Years passed, until the day came I found and mined my first diamond. My family had a tradition were you could become a man if you could make your own diamond pickaxe, I managed to do this at the age of 14.

It was that year that my father had to go to the war to fight under the control of Kjell Ire'heart in the war in Alras. My uncle sereved with him but my father was brutally killed. My uncle said he was like an unstoppable war machine and would have killed at least a hundred people. My uncle still remembers the face of the man who killed my father. Since then my uncle, by brother Zeema and I wander the kingdom of Aegis looking for the man who took his life.

Your characters ambitions:

I’m not sure what I will accomplish but eventually I would like to have a house on the surface and one of the biggest mines in the land. I would also like to be involved in a war against the human race in hope of killing my father’s slayer.

Out in the Wilds, your character comes across a small cottage. Outside, there appears to be an elf struggling combat with two bandits. What does your character do?

I wait and watch to see what happens. They stop combat for a second and begin to talk, “hand it over” says one of the bandits. The elf replies with a firm “no” and they continue fighting. I step in with my iron sword to separate them, “what are you doing!” exclaims the other bandit. “What do you want from him” I say. “the diamond” says the first bandit. He then goes to take a swing at me so I raise my sword and chop of his hand. “aaaahhhhh!!!” screams the bandit. He picks up his hand and they run off. The elf then towers over me, “thank you kind dwarf” he says, but before I can reply he has hopped on his pig and rode off to the horizon.

Your character walks up to a shop in a quiet market. "Hello, my good sir!" says the shop owner. "What may I help you with today?" How does your character answer?

How much for a loaf of bread my friend? “I’m sorry we only sell weapons here”. “oh, well how much for a golden shovel”. “That’ll be 500 minas”, “I’ll give you 500 minas”. (swing), (decapitate), (thud), thanks for the shovel.

A screenshot of your skin:

Other Information:

I can stay underground for weeks at a time.

James Undercroft · February 11, 2012

Your application has been:

Do not worry though; this does not mean you cannot apply again, quite the contrary! After two hours you may apply again which gives you plenty of time to fix up your application, plan it out as well as use all of this advice which I have given you in this post to make your application one of the best. Please check the links at the bottom of this post, they will help you quite a bit.

This is why you were denied:

Your definition for powergaming needs some improvement.

Luckily for you there are plenty of ways to learn the correct definition. First of all you can look on the lord of the craft wiki and then search for "Powergaming", you can join our Team Speak channel (You can get Team Speak from http://teamspeak.com/?page=downloads ), or you can do a google search.

Your biography needs a some work.

Please include the entire question when writing your biography such as your characters history, personality, description and age. With the description don’t just write He is tall and old and carries around a bow. There are a lot of tall, old people who carry around bows. Get descriptive; what is your hair colour? How long? Eye colour? Big eyes? Small eyes? Do you have wrinkles? How tall are you? Are you muscled or slim but agile?

You also need to add your characters strengths and weaknesses as well as reasons for such. For example, if your character is good at swordsmanship, bows or even farming you need to explain in your biography why your character is so good in what it does and how it developed these skills.

Also Aegis has been destroyed and everyone has escaped (that survived). I suggest you read up on the lore again :)

The second RP question needs to be changed.

You cannot decapitate someone who has not wronged you, for that is a villainous act and your character cannot become a villain until you have filled out a villain application which can only be filled out after you are accepted onto the server.

Please also note that everyone (and I mean everyone) just writes that they buy something, and leave. What is that? It shows a lack of effort in my opinion. All you have to do is use your imagination, create something innovative, exciting and fun for the reader. There are endless possibilities, for example you could write that the shop keeper is actually a bandit who is luring victims into his shop and then he gets his thug friends to come in from the rear to block your escape, or perhaps the shop keeper tries to cheat you of an item and you respond by calling the guards and something exciting happens. The possibilities are endless; all you have to do is be creative.

Please wait 2 hours or your application will be instantly denied.

This gives you a chance to have a cup of tea and read all of which I have provided.

Please do send a PM my way if you are having any trouble understanding the application process or my feedback, I would be glad to help you. :)

Good luck for your next application!

Here is some further reading material that can help you get accepted:

To understand the questions being asked better look here: http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/34777-in-depth-analysis-of-the-application-form/

The guide of a Game Master to accepted server applications:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/13144-petyrs-guide-to-accepted-server-applications/

Tips to definitely include on your application:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/19145-tips-to-include-on-your-application/

A must-read guide to the world of aegis:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/9868-an-extensive-guide-to-the-world-of-aegis