Calan's Application

[ldjulius 22]

Out-Of-Character:

This my third attempt at making an acceptable application

Minecraft Account Name:

ldjulius

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

No

How old are you?:

23

Time-Zone/Country of Residence:

CST

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

Yes. I have a Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature

Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself:

I'm 23, I'm a candidate for a Master's Degree in English at Delta State University. I play Minecraft when I'm not buried in books.

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

10 Hours or less. Depending on how much I can play during the week.

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

Roleplaying is a fun way to escape reality. Furthermore, in a game like Minecraft it really helps weed out a lot of troll players who just get on servers to grief. I like roleplaying, and I love Minecraft, and together it is a great combination. I've roleplayed D&D characters, Vampire characters, etc. but with minecraft there is visual. You can truly become your character.

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

Metagaming is using information that is out of your characters immediate realm of knowledge. You may know the information (you the gamer) but your character doesn't (your minecraft character). Powergaming is when you roleplay with things that you don't actually posses, for example0: I'm playing D&D and I kill someone and simply say "I kill the Orc" well what did you kill it with? How? and where did you acquire that which you killed him with.

What do you expect this server will be like?:

I expect it to be exciting and less stressful than other servers where people just TNT everything you build. I hope that it is more engaging that other servers as well. I want to be involved when I play MC. I don’t just want to build. I want to explore, create, and build relationships and community with people.

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

LegendaryCraft: too much grief, a lot of people just TNT'd everything outside the spawn area.

Singaming: I still play some

ObsidianCraft: I tried it out but never got into it

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

Absolutely

How did you hear about us?:

Google search for RP minecraft servers

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

I tried but got a 404 error

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

ldjulius

In-Character:

Two things to know about this bard: 1.) He loves a good ale 2.) No one makes better mushroom soup than his mother. No one.

Character Name:

Calan

What is your Race?:

Human

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

Born in the mountains around the Dwarven territories, Calan was raised on the study of the ancient literatures of Aegis. His parents were hermetic humans living alone among the tall mountain trees. From an early age, they were aware of Calan’s prowess with pen and paper, as well as his ability to craft the sentence and speak the native tongue. By age 7 Calan had already begun translating the epics of old into his own language. His parents often found him out in the sheep pastures preaching to the herds the myths of their forefathers and demanding that the cattle repent of their heretical ways. Calan’s parents would laugh, amazed by his prowess with poetry and oration and call him back home for mushroom soup and sweet rolls. At age 16 Calan’s father taught him to wield the dagger and the bow. Calan was primarily averse to fighting but his stoic understanding of the world led him to a sense of nationalism that couldn’t be separated from the sword. He began an avid hunter and marksman and an expert angler. He and his father would speed weeks hunting in the mountains to track mountain goat and skin for wolf pelts to trade at the markets. It was on these journeys that he and his father would craft their travel narratives and write poetry together, recalling the ages before when the monsters did not roam the plains and mountains of Aegis. It was on these hunting trips that he discovered his love of nature and the arts, and discovered himself among the mountains. Now, aged 23, in the prime of his life and at the peak of his writing Calan is young and adventurous. He travels the regions of Aegis seeking answers to the cosmos through poetry and writing. His face is young, his beard is trimmed and his feet are newly worn with walking through the hills and valleys of Aegis. He is kindhearted and loves to help others however he can. He enjoys singing and dancing and writing above all other things and most certainly will never refuse good ale and kind women and good mushroom soup.

Your characters ambitions:

Calan’s main ambition is to wander the regions of Aegis seeking inspiration for his writing. He has a love of fine ale and his mother’s homemade mushroom soup. He hopes that he can settle down somewhere with a good book and a kind woman, perhaps in one of the major kingdoms but his heart is open to living alone among the forests. Above all Calan is a writer, and a lover of language and wants nothing more than to spread his joy of the spoken and written word to the people of Aegis.

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?

Calan is scared, fearful for his own life but the humanitarian in him cannot allow this elf to die. He draws his bow, aiming sloppily for one of the bandits, his arrows misses by a long shot to the left piercing a nearby sycamore tree. The bandits are on to him. He draws his bow again, this time with more assurance. He takes a deep breath, pulls, and releases. The arrow stabs one of the bandits in the gut. The bandit falls, giving the elf opportunity to strike with his dagger. The other bandit, seeing that he is now outnumbered, runs away back into the forest fearing for his own life. Calan approaches the elf with caution. The elf, thankful for Calan’s bravery offers him rest for the evening in his cottage and a hot meal of roasted chicken and bread.

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?

“I’m looking for a dated copy of the Dwarven mining history as well as a book of poems by the late Elvish poet Aelam Sycadore. You wouldn’t happen to carry any old texts or incantation books perchance? “

The shop owner looks puzzled but remembering some old books he kept buried in the back of the shop goes to grab the texts. Calan waits for his return.

A screenshot of your skin:

http://www.planetminecraft.com/skin/wilderness-survivor/

Other Information:

This is my third attempt. I’m clearly not doing a very good job somewhere and I would imagine it’s my character bio. So, I read some of the forums, did some research and made a new one. I can only hope this one isn’t as fail boat as the other two.

[Repiteo 173]

I do admittedly have a few nitpicks in the application... But that doesn't change the fact that this application is FANTASTIC and you clearly have bearing on RP and the works. This was a pleasure reading.

Accepted.

[Repiteo 173]

Moved to Accepted Forum

[Alana (Previously Latsi) 136]

Implemented.