Monkeyfacegamer's Application

[MonkeyFaceGamer 33]

Minecraft Account Name: MonkeyFaceGamer

How old are you?: 14

Time-Zone/Country of Residence: Quebec, Canada

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

Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself:

My name is Mathieu, I have been playing minecraft since Alpha and have loved it since. I play whenever I can especially in the evening of a school day. I've played many RPGs and just wanted to find a good RP Server for minecraft then heard about you guys so decided to apply.

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

I'd be on atleast 4-6 hours a day, from when I'm done my homework to sleep.

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

Roleplaying is when you're more then just playing a character in a game, you're being the character feeling what he feels and thinking like he would. To me roleplaying is to be another person adn have a life as them, like having two lives one as myself and one as this character.

What experience have you had in Roleplaying, if any?:

I have had many experiences with roleplaying games. I've been on some lower grad RP servers on minecraft, have played through Skyrim, and The Fallouts. I've also played some MMORPGs in the past.

In your own Words, define what the act of Meta-Gaming is:

Meta-Gaming is when a player uses knowledge of a creature or other player with his character even if his character does not know, it's using knowledge that the chacter doesn't know but the player does.

In your own Words, define what the act of Power-Gaming is:

Power-gaming is when one forces another player to Engage in roleplay he doesn't want. In example I'm trying to get to my house and another player says he starts to batle me, I might not want to engage but am forced to by the other player.

What do you expect this server will be like?:

I expect this server to be lots of fun as I am a hardcore RPGer I think it'll be serious and no one will be out of character at any time.

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

I've played on other servers but can't remember specific names. I left most of them because they werent serious enough and it always ended up like a normal minecraft server.

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

Do you promise to abide by said rules, and laws? This includes the Server, Forum, and Teamspeak set Rules: I do.

How did you hear about us?: I heard about you by PotatoOrgy

Have you previously made an Application? If so could you link us to your last Application?:

I have made an application but about a year ago.

In-Character:

Character Name: Darauk

What Race are you?: Dwarven

What Sub-Race are you? (note, you aren’t required to have a sub-race): ---

Biography (Please make this at least 2 paragraphs long. This must include the history of your character and his life as well as age, appearance and personality, etc.):

Darauk was born and raised in a forest with his poor family. His father was away most of his childhood and he never had many friends. As he grew up Darauk and his father started speaking of similar interests. at that moment his father started teachiong him how to wield a sword and bow. But it didn't last long as his father was poisoned in a Tavern. Darauk was 15 at the time and swore he would avenge his fathers death. He continued his arms training but had to stop to go in the mines to make gold for his mother and him. He worked in the mines for 7 years and at the age of 21, when his mother died, he went of into the city to try and find someone to love or even a friend.

Now darauk is 68, he's seen many battles in his life but now as he is getting older he is slowing down. He still hasn't found the man that is responsible for his fathers death but senses he might be close. He is now wise and will use that throughout the dwarven population.....

What is your Character's ambitions?:

His ambitions are to make the dwarves smarter and teach some of his swordsmanship to other dwarves

What is your character’s favorite tool? (sword, pickaxe, shovel, etc): His fathers Sword

What is one of your Character's most skilled talents?: He is an extremely talented swordsman and has experience with mining.

A screenshot of your skin (must be in proper format):Is attached to the topic.

Other Information about your Character: He is a very wise man.

Open-Response-Questions

Whilst traveling from the Cloud Temple you see a small halfling, being harassed by two armed warriors. They appear to be trying to steal money from him, how does your character respond?

He would go down to where they were, ask what the problem is and if they were arrogant or mistreated him or the hafling in any way he would battle them off.

Your character wanders into Alras, and comes across a small stall, behind which a well dressed man is standing. He’s offering various wares, the merchant turns to you and says in a posh accent " 'ello there, what can I do you for today?" What is your character response?

Darauk would turn towards the man and ask him what he was selling, the man would probably answer and Darauk would see if anything is apealing to him, if not, he would wish a good day to the man and leave.

Whilst wandering in the wilds, your character comes across a small hut, which looks abandoned. Inside it you see a chest containing a few iron bars, and a golden sword. How would your character respond?:

He would look around the area, see if there are any traps or people hiding if no obne is there Darauk would take the loot and go on his way.

Hungry and lost in the wilderness, you stumble across a small trading camp nestled among the forest, they greet you in the common tongue, how do you respond?

He greets them then enters their camp, looks through the traders' inventory, buy what appeals to him

Then wish a good day to all and walk back to his home or village.

You hear word that bandits occupy the road outside the town in which you have been staying. The town guard have gathered, and are asking for assistance to help eliminate them. The leader of the party is offering a reward for any who offer their support. How does your character act on this information?:

He get's his items together and goes with the rest of the guards. At the end of the battle when he is about to be given some gold Darauk just refuses and tells the leader that he was doing it to help. he then goes back and rests.

[James Undercroft 129]

I am very sorry, but your application has been moved to the denied section of the forums. There are numerous reasons for this, all of which I have included in my feedback below this message. In the mean time there is an abundant source of information, stories, guides and other helpful tips to get you on your way to being accepted; all you need to do is look around. I would suggest the lord of the craft wiki and application submissions section of the forums to start off your little quest to make the best application. Good luck!

The reasons that I have denied you are:

Your have used incorrect formatting of the application.

You need to re-copy the application format. Make sure you have copied the text from the white box and not anywhere else. Also make sure that you do not delete anything in [these square brackets] as they are vital to keep the colour, boldness and size of the text. If you are having trouble because your entire application turns out in funny colours, make sure that you are writing your answers on a line underneath the question, as this is a common error and can mess up the formatting of your application.

Your definition of Roleplaying is not what we are after.

Your current definition of Roleplaying displays to me that you do not fully understand what Roleplaying is all about. Please go back and so some research as to what Roleplaying is. I needn’t remind you that this is a Roleplaying server, if you do not know how to role-play or do not show evidence that you are keen to learn how to role-play I suggest you find a Minecraft server better suited to your needs.

You did not give valid examples of RP, or you did not describe how your examples are RP.

You need to describe to us how the games or locations you have talked about pertain to an RP environment.

RPGs or Role-Playing Games are not RP’s.

Games such as World of Warcraft, Skyrim, Rift or similar do not count as Roleplaying as there is no person to person interaction within a Roleplaying scenario (unless of course you were on a Roleplaying server in which you need to explain where and how you role-played to show your understanding of the term).

Your definition of power-gaming is incorrect.

In lord of the craft we use an RP definition of power-gaming, rather than an RPG definition. While these may seem like the same thing, we can loosely judge that an RPG definition would fit in with games such as World of Warcraft or Skyrim, and the RP definition would fit in with games such as D&D or other person to person Roleplaying. Please do not confuse the definition we use to the definition that other Roleplaying groups may use, relating to creating a character which is too powerful, or doing an “overpowered” action; this is not the definition we use. To make sure you have the correct definition you can either have a look at the Lord of the Craft wiki, or by joining our Team Speak channel (send me a message if you need help getting started) and asking an experienced member. I would also like you to include an example of the term as it demonstrates your understanding of the concept.

You need to have a character last name.

Unless you have a specific reason for why you do not have a last name of your character, you need to write a last name to show that you have put some in-depth thought processes into developing and creating your character.

Your biography has a lot of errors.

You did not include enough about your characters past, rather you just explained your character’s personality and/or description.

Currently your biography is more of an overview or a dot pointed list of the happenings of your characters past and present. You need to make it flow similar to a story. Explain your character in detail.

You have not included any (or much) lore from the world of Asulon or the lore you did include contradicts that of Asulon. I recommend that you do a lot of research as to what you race is and how they act, as well as towns and places that you could use in your biography. I would also like to note that the entire server escaped from Aegis about 25 in game years ago to move to Asulon, I suggest you do some research on this point. Do note this is not Skyrim or Lord of the Rings, we have our own universe with our own races. For ideas and lore you can look on the Lord of the Craft wiki (link on the main page), the Role-play or History sections of the forums or better yet; talk to the people themselves. Just join in our Team Speak channel and ask around! We welcome new people :)

Your story does not make too much sense.

Your biography is not substantial enough. You need to write more about your character, write more detail and more depth. If your biography is less than two paragraphs long or is a bit too short it will be automatically denied. You need to write a minimum of two paragraphs (which in themselves must contain at least five full sentences).

Your ambitions are underdeveloped.

You need to show some advanced thought processes. What would your character like to do in the near and distant futures? What is your character planning? You also need to justify your decisions. Why does your character want to do this? Things such as planning to kill all bandits, orcs, humans etc. are unacceptable ambitions as this would require a villainous activity.

Your answers to the favourite tool/best skill questions are underdeveloped.

You need to justify why you have chosen the choices you have. It is all well and good that your character can run really fast, or is light on their feet; but why?

You need to embed the screenshot of your skin.

Your current skin is not acceptable. Honeydew or Honeydew alternatives are blacklisted on this server, please do not use them.

An alternative to uploading the screenshot of your skin is embedding. While it may take longer it will not use up your upload quota which can be used for other things. Here is a tutorial:

1. Go in-game and press the “F5” button TWICE. (Not once as this will show the back of your character)

2. Take a screen shot by pressing the "PrntScr" button on a windows computer or press F2 on the keyboard, then go to start => Run and type in this: %appdata%/.minecraft/screenshots

3. Find the screenshot and open it in an image manipulation program such as Paint or Gimp.

4. Crop the image so that only the area close to your skin (including the skin) remains.

5. Save the file and go to tinypic.com

6. Upload the file

7. Click ONCE on the text box underneath: "IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards"

8. Right click and copy the entire text

9. Paste in your new application

*Note* If you want a tutorial for Macs, please send me a message on the forums.

Some or all of your answers to the Open Response questions need a lot of improvement.

Instead of describing what your character would do, you need to assume that your character is in the situation and acting as they would in that situation. You need to describe a scene of RP. This means that you cannot write “If this happens, then my character would do that.” As this shows that you are not Roleplaying, you are answering the question from what you think that your character might do. You need to show us that you know who your character is, you know what the situation is and you know how your character is going to react.

This also means that you need to write in full RP. For example:

Josh talks to the shopkeeper, buys a few apples, pays the shop keeper and leaves. X BAD

Josh walks up to the man standing behind the rough oaken market stand. The sounds of a busy market can be heard all around him. An annoying fly buzzes around his head, so he absent-mindedly begins to inefficiently swat it away. “Ah, greetings shopkeeper! I was just browsing your wares.” The shopkeeper nods at Josh and then turns towards another customer to attempt to assist them the way all market shopkeepers must. Suddenly Josh felt a slight tugging sensation on his belt. He was about to brush it off as nothing, perhaps just someone bumping into him until he realised his belt was slightly lighter. He noticed a man beginning to run off in the opposite direction of himself. He glanced down to see that his coin purse was missing. He put two and two together and then shouted at the top of his lungs. “STOP THEIF!”… √ GOOD!

We expect that you write in full RP and that you write a full paragraph or more for each question.

If you have any questions about my feedback, or would like to create some constructive criticism about the way I give feedback (I.E am I being TOO blunt, or am I coming across rude) then please send me a message! I take all questions, none are stupid! :) You are not allowed to apply again for a full 24 hours.

[James Undercroft 129]

Moved to Denied Forum