Mannamannaa

These are the kinds of updates that make the server enjoyable. Very well Done. =)

LotC lifetimes can have good endings? The miracle is real!

Hope you do great in life and congratulations.

2 minutes ago, TeawithFrisket said:

REAL LMFAO

I hate how this is so true. What happened to characters fighting for the sake of good storytelling, that whole "give and take" part of RP?

Wait, actually the Undead and Rahmuts have been doing great with that recently. Wish we could see more good natured CRP on the server.

6 hours ago, Borin said:

this is excrutiating to read

Understandable, Have A Nice Day.

(Borinposting is funny)

Soo... is this an edit? Added abilities? What reasoning is given for these abilities to provide additional function/utility/flavor to the magic?

What is an emote of stun and how is it roleplayed by the target? Does this Dholl act as a 3 emote into coup-de-grace combo piece, especially on a field with multiple combatants? Can this be blocked by defensive spells, armor, wards, etcetera?

...I have a lot of questions, these seem like great concepts yet the finer redlines might need a bit more fleshing out.

Thank goodness. If I read *scoffs from the heavens/seven skies/spirit realm* one more time while trying to respond in character to actual quality posts I will weep silent tears of grief and misery.

Honestly the sheer amount of bad faith and bias in the descriptions for your poll makes me want to disagree with you on principle. Perhaps reaching out from a point of understanding instead of setting up false dichotomies would help you get results (as opposed to being ratio'd)?

The above advice might help you enjoy CRP more as well, to be fair.

P.S. Voting in your own poll doesn't look good. Not recommended.

Kor'garr, Truthspeaker of the Horde, shakes his head as he looks over a copy of the missive before droplets of saltwater spray up against his chest. Curved wooden planks held together with large ferrum nails creak and bob atop the choppy waves far south of the desert coastline. A harsh, guttural bark of crude laughter looses from his tusked maw before the orc scribbles a quick message on the back of that dense paper, shoving the rolled up parchment back into it's bottle along with some extra pages and tossing it towards the mainland.

Once Grimruk picks up the returned message from San'Briu's courier station, a few short yet blocky sentences could be read alongside a different guide to Blah!

"Kor'garr'z guide was better. Stick to hunting agh trials, Krimpgoth, or lat gets clobbered after Kor'garr returns home. Sincerely, the Skriptgoth."
 

[!] A tattered scrap of parchment, sodden with brine, makes its way to the holdings of Clan Yar. Large yet precise script in the ink of glow squids reads starkly to whoever inspects the letter. [!]

To the Clan of Yar,

Kor'garr has heard of the Harrowing called upon Toad'Yar agh Glasha'Yar. The Truthspeaker requests any items of Kor'garr's held by the now banished individuals are kept within the clan or stored for his eventual return, whichever would strengthen the Horde more. In addition, Kor'garr gruks over the status of that last trial to become a brother of the clan, agh their legitimacy. Are trials given out by those stripped of honor in themselves Honorless, or is only the action agh Truth of the taker measured by the ancestors of the Starguzh'Stroh above?
 

With Integrity agh Honor,
Kor'garr
Yar Aspirant
Former Skriptgoth.

Great potential MArt creation, canonists need something to chant over because their god is dead and the pacted creation of some Demi-djinn makes a fine aubstitute for something like a proper totem.

(Joking aside I do like the ideas here, as long as the blood effect is closely monitored to prevent misunderstandings. Also, is the blood effect a single target per offering? Or do 10 humans get to take a sip all at once?)

Upon creaking boards and amidst the soft splashing of brine against salt-stained planks, a weathered grey figure jerks away from Drelthok's embrace of sleep. Muscles spasm even as a weary ache in the disgruntled and confused orc's bones bring some measure of awareness back to formerly frantic thoughts. Red pupils, after long moments of searching the starlit skies above for some undiscovered answer, slowly tear away from imagined nightmares to gaze northwards. 

The small vessel rocks. No Blah, modern or old, is uttered. No oars dip into water. And yet, in this scene of silence... Kor'garr wonders.

Is it time? A calling? Or just another unsettling mirage from that cursed Eye?

[!] From some uninhabited coastal part of the desert wastes, a small Vinix arrives to collapse in front of the group. The trained courier animals petite gliding wings are crusted with salt and its mammalian frame trembles from exhaustion. The small leather tube strapped crudely around the beings neck jingles with a muted bell. If opened by the Rah'muns, the tattered message inside is writ upon scraps of parchment using the unfiltered ink of glow squids. [!]

To the wandering Pharoh and prophets of purity:

Mortal lies are temporary. Truth is eternal, whether in the realm of spirits or upon the sands of this mortal plane. Prove latselves as this Truthspeaker knows you are able. The Void, the Drakes, the False Eye of Heresy. This conflict between brethren holds no flame to the depths of those evils that we must defeat together.

With Honor through Integrity,

[!] The area where a signature would normally be placed has been torn away and bleached by saltwater to an unrecognizable mess of muddled inks. [!]

Can we also change MC food items to have expiration dates again when the back taxes starts?

Oh and reset all nation mines on non core tiles when people don't pay for them.

If you rubber banded your nation to get 2 netherite nodes and are now whining about needing to pay for the additional 5+ tiles you ate in between your capital and pvp resource cave, that's your darn fault.

[!] A message is posted from some foreign, wild place on the outskirts of Aevos, tattered parchment written upon with large yet neat blocks of script. [!]

To the Unnamed Crusader-King of Kanonism,

We believers of holy Kanon respect your rallying call to oppose the foul Void through glorious Wagh. The great crucifix of Faith beckons us all to fight against the horrific entropies and unnatural violations of our world caused by extraplanar invaders, and the cthonic parasites of the abyss are second only to Iblees itself in their magnitudes of corruptive influence upon our homeland. Though the descendants of Krug, Horen, and Urguan may disagree on much, this Truth is clearly shared in our fervor - To tolerate the voidal abomination or channel such corrosion is anathema to all Honor and Hozhness in the world. Even now we commence operations to stymie Iblees's corruptive grasp upon the dragonspawn of Azdromoth. The Void will be next. We offer the highest prayers for strength of body and soul in your crusade.

 

For Truth and Honor,
Kor'garr
Truthseeker
Skriptgoth of the Horde

@UnwillinglyHow does this interact with so called "semi-holy" deific magics? As an example, Scorthuz, the immortal spirit of purity, from shamanism? Or would the lack of soul as expressed in their ascendance from the mortal shell surpass any existence as a "dark creature" to be purged, since shamanism is a soul meddling/pacting/blessing/hexing style magic?

Also in metals is _Argentum_ (basically a better slayersteel/aurum with anti-chitin/shell properties and a dislike of enchants on top) similarly effective as aurum would be, or is it more on the level of Lunarite?

Alao, I love this lore, well thought out and scary. I enjoy it!

On 8/23/2023 at 1:43 AM, Islamadon said:

I know I'm about to  but I think the Deific Corruption should affect Templars in a different way to explain the thwarting of their connection, if any. Maybe it causes them to become irrationally angry and confused? Courage is kind of the whole basis of Templarism and Malchediael himself was in Moz RDM'ing demons without a care in the world. By pushing a loss of courage, it counteracts the best defense a Templar has when arguably, Lore-Wise, Templars should be the hard counter to Inferi above any other Dark CA. Further, I fear setting the groundwork for a Dark > Holy relationship - with any ability - will lead to another Lore Arms Race, causing other magics to take inspiration from a set precedent.

Perhaps its should rile the courage into a darker form of recklessness, playing on their strength to take advantage of that emotional extreme? That would be a good balance point, I think, and a great narrative challenge for Templars to deal with as a risk of going "too far" with the emotional augmentations provided by a deific magic.

On 8/24/2023 at 8:04 AM, Papa Rock said:

"They will find themselves as strong as an Uruk now" - "a Naztherak, matching the peak strength of their original descendant race"

I don't understand, does this mean outside of casting a spell, they are as strong as an Uruk, but while casting they are at the peak of their race?

 

Ah yes, another dependance on the undefined mess that is "orcish strength" (assumed to be twice as physically capable as a non orc descendent at peak in terms of force, weight, etc)

Honestly the "I hit as hard as x because CA face/magic" is a messy slope. What happens is an orc (or former orc) picks up this magic, like they could with kani/chi or tawkins? Do they get a comparatively "lesser" boost because they are naturally closer to the arbitrary maximum? It's another card on the fragile house that is CRP terminology/"balance"... Not sure how to go about changing it though.

Why not bring back a corrupted mori-style Malin as follow up from the previous eventline?

2 hours ago, Islamadon said:

Malin is a loser and no one would take him seriously.

17 hours ago, Onnensr said:

 

as a sneaky sumbitch I second this. the fact that at any moment someone can just see my nametag, even if I'm squatting in some cases, and know I'm listening to them is very sad

I have wondered greatly about the sneak plugin and it's effectiveness recently. Would be wonderful if crouching or crawling/lying prone could remove a nameplate in it's entirety. "Stealth" or espionage RP is difficult even without the semi-wallhack nature of names showing through meters of solid stone.

6 minutes ago, xMuted said:

I think this is too much to ask of people who are staff on this server for free, just doing it out of the passion and like for the server that they are all on.

Cannot expect public professionalism on what is essentially a minecraft server run by players like the rest of us just doing it out of their hearts.

Is basic human decency and at least attempting to give consistent rulings a good start then? Surely we can work out where the line in the sand should be drawn from the server's standards for player conduct and extrapolate to cover the added priveleges they have as staff.

On 8/8/2023 at 8:04 PM, Burnsider said:

 

And I apologize for such a harsh tone I took. It wasn't warranted. You hit upon something I'm extremely passionate about in gaming, and I saw the need for RIGHTEOUS FURY. Which, to be fair, shouldn't have been leveled on you, but on the culture in gaming that has bred a lot of RPers to think the same way you did. I really hope you take that article to heart; it and another article on "Playing to Lift" have dramatically affected the way I game. And, I'd like to think, for the better.

 

Here's a Primer on Playing to Lift: https://nordiclarp.org/2018/02/21/play-lift-not-just-lose/

 

And here's the other article that I said changed the way I play: https://thespacebetweenstories.com/2019/01/10/how-to-playing-to-lift-makes-you-one-of-the-cool-kids/

These are great recs burn. Thank you. =)

Also, @Telanir

Whatever comes of all these words, please make sure there are actual actions to follow up on the declarations of "we will make it great again I promise". If staff bias is an issue, remove the problem children. Same for OOC toxicity. If you wanna support RP and not clicks the tech upgrades should reflect that. Hell, stricter rules on nation/tile decisions needing to be made IRPly instead of in private discords would help alleviate the rampant political metagaming.

Don't pander to the revolving door of leadership cliques, make the server better for the common player that doesn't have thousands of spare minas and evict pex. 

Oh and maybe set up some exclusivity between being staff with pex and being a realm PRO?

Just... Actually do, instead of talk.

I already made my opinions known on the trend of the server to put ooc civ nation-tile PRO politics on a pedestal compared to literally Everything Else, and how the recent additions to PvP have exacerbated that issue. It's why I refuse to ever be Rex again. It's why I am currently taking a break from LotC.

Roleplay has no consequences at the moment and all power to make decisions is held either OOCly, or through use of PvP plugin, or by staff. All three of these have been shown to hinder roleplay and allow for blatant bias to affect decision making.

An earlier post mentioned people not willing to Leave LotC if they are unhappy... Well, they already have been! The screamers just drown out their voices.

Earlier I said I was taking a small hiatus. With the recent events and decisions, or lack thereof, made by certain staff members I now genuinely believe it is for the best I leave the server behind for good. Kor'garr's story can be told elsewhere, in a place where people actually wish to weave a coherent story together as friends. Maybe that's BG3, maybe its a 5e campaign. Yet as the months have passed I find myself unwilling to even indirectly support the direction this server is taking where toxicity and discrimination are safeguarded and even encouraged, whether intentionally or not.

3 hours ago, sincerelyE said:

The whole gate thing has been jarring ever since I gave LotC a try. You have such a massive playerbase, inviting the ability for people to hop on whenever, even on Euro/Aus times, and have enough people to roleplay with. That is not something any other mcrp server has, yet...

... The gates and the ever looming concern of mcpvpers. Too many times now I've spent 30ish minutes checking several towns, found them closed up, and logged off. There's only so much time I can allocate out of my day to roleplay - if 30 mins of that is spent (sometimes unsuccessfully) finding that roleplay, then most days I just won't bother at all.

When I first joined a year ago, I thought about writing up a post about how the coexistence of mcpvp and roleplay harms the latter and keeps the upper echelon of quality roleplayers either away from the server entirely or, if they are on this server, they're huddled up in little pockets in order to guard themselves from being forced into a faction server experience. I ended up not writing the post, because I thought I'd be shouting into the void of a largerly mcpvp-oriented server. But now, reading the posts on this thread, it seems to me that people do want some sort of changes.

 

Maybe it's time to pull a m******craft and make a separate ecosystem entirely for the pvpers, giving opportunity to abolish the jarring pvp defence systems like ugly city walls and hell, even allow roleplayers to be the ones to shape the outcome of politics and major conflicts. 

I understand this might be a completely outrageous take by LotC standards still, but it's been at the back of my mind for an entire year, so I might as well lay it out.

 

This is a good idea.

If a "fantasy" slur has OOC relevance or meaning it should not be used. Simple as. We have a literal universe of opportunity where make believe insults are concerned, so there is no reasonable excuse for RP characters to "by happenstance" utter phrases of IRL animosity and hatred. Be inventive and silly in coming up with something that can't be misconstrued with historical discrimination please.

AYO?