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The Stag Screams in Pain
sapphic_spidy replied to The Court of the Sun's topic in The Serene Vale of Wynlomere
Mae'ralin. Infernal shaman. Mae'ralin. Infernal shaman. Dead. Castien considers his options, feeling sick to his stomach. There's only one way to find out how true this is. He doesn't know what he wants to be true. -
(half elves only live for the normal human lifespan)
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two week years would work better for me personally, but overall with the server the change would impact. a lot. it just sucks when i cant get on for a few days at a time and i log back in and its been so long and i have to justify irply why my character wasnt around when ive been busy with larp, job hunting, graduating university, etc. before i had a lot going on in my real life it was fine but now it's more stressful getting on lotc than ever bc of how much i miss and how much time passes. it just goes too quick and its resulted in me going from days not logging on to weeks without logging on. gah.
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Fight or Be Forgotten, Larkin Macintosh Winburgh [PK]
sapphic_spidy replied to Pegleg_Bob's topic in Character Graveyard
Something stirs in Tiffany. Grief she put off for so long. Her pa was always so important to her. She wanted nothing more than to make him proud. Her hands shake as she reads the letter over and over. He's faking. A small part of her mind screams. He's faking his death because he's smart, he's too smart to die, too smart. But she's not a child anymore, and her pa was getting old. He's gone. The cold reality settles. It's a hollowness unlike anything she's ever felt before. -
What is the most interesting magic from an RP point of view
sapphic_spidy replied to Beardicuss's topic in Debate
where kani :( -
There's a choice for a Salvan man with a very stupid name to make, then. Down an eye, down full function in a hand, down on luck. He could go down fighting. Or he could find a way to profit in the aftermath.
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STOP being in florida STOP IT!
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Yeah I feel this big time. Even with things for my characters to do, it's harder and harder to get online. I'm also getting busier with my real life, though, so that may be part of it. LOTC just doesn't give me that same spark anymore. I would rather wait for those 1-2 weekends a month to get really good rp and combat at larp rather than log in every day for the chance to maybe have fun. I imagine I'll really get back into things in June/July, though, because I have no larp those months and will be so bored. I enjoy LOTC in terms of friends and fun time, but it's getting harder to enjoy that fun time. Perhaps I just need a more dedicated break?? Dunno This is how I feel. Experiencing rp environments where most people do get along and just tell stories together has made LOTC less appealing
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what if your personas could meet you in irl?
sapphic_spidy replied to PotatoFan117's topic in Miscellany
going based off of a few that i played a lot of, including the dead: kiva, tiffany, and sydney would be fine katherine would kill me. alice would bully me and then kill me. interacting with castien would make me wish someone would kill me- -
Stanton was always someone who was always there. Even if Castien knew nothing about him, even if they were far from close. A comforting presence, proof that he could have time with the humans he cared for- time. Something so important, yet something he could never quite grasp. He let himself ignore changes in appearance, purposefully didn't let himself see the people around him change or grow old. But time is cruel. No one is immortal. Not even a comforting presence, one who was always there.
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Castien looks at the angry, angry one year old in his care. Maybe this will finally make it smile... why doesn't this kid ever smile... is his home that poorly decorated... (it is)
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thanks god
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Safety once more, but for how long? Will this last? Will it remain? Castien cannot be sure. He has so much to lose.
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"Raising the age limit is not enforceable!" with this logic why have one at all? Why have one at 13+ if people younger than that will just lie anyways?
The reasons for why the 13+ age limit is still a good idea to specify despite that are the same reasons why a 16+ age limit being listed would be a good idea. It being enforceable is not the point, it's deterring children who are unable to properly interact with the themes/maturity level of the server (or the internet at all) from doing so by making it clear that they are not welcome in the space.
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its less so that we should do nothing, but moreso that this is just a bandaid fix at best.
we shouldn't just change 13+ to 16+ and act like everything's all good, because what would actually stop it is active community monitoring. even to this day, communtiies defend toxic and /strange/ behaviour because "it's one of our guys!", until that fellow is inevitably tosbanned.
the problem isn't in the rules but the community, and the COMMUNITY needs to stand up and police itself. moderation can only do so much when half of all lotc-related interactions are in peoples dms. -
It's not enforceable. People lie. The only true fix, one that people are reluctant to do, is to ban all of this content no matter what the age of joining the server is. Describing the server as "adult" in the first place implies that gore or pornography is okay. The language people use to describe things is important and conveys essential meaning. In the majority of communities "Mature" or "18+" content IMMEDIATELY refers to gore or sex.
It attracts the wrong kind of demographic, whereas other descriptors could be used, and other rules implemented to change this environment. No matter what the age of play is, people are still going to join. Unless we begin IDing people, which is a violation of peoples' privacy and not easily actionable, the only thing that can be done is to outright ban pornographic and gore related content, ban adults from role-playing with minors in a romantic context, and some people even advocate for the removal of FTBs altogether.
"Adult Roleplaying Server", "18+ Roleplaying Server", are going to be labels that imply (intentionally or not) that everybody in this community is open to gore or sex. There is NO reason to give the public this impression.
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