Tethras

Tarren begins to bother Midgor about how they should hold it in Cloud Temple. Without guards or people who like to just be loud. Only the nation representative and one other individual. 

Farren compares the two document in front of him, one from the dwarven printing press and the warrant from this new device. Having sat for a few minutes pondering he comes to a conclusion.

"Has to be the Dwarven printing press, I can at least read the writing without squinting.  At any rate, by what authority does this person has to put up a warrant? Last I heard, the nations of the Bloc are still at war with the Empire and it's allies. Considering that, I highly doubt  it was created on behalf of the state. Shouldn't he put a bounty up instead? With the dwarven printing press mind you, I would like to read without squinting..."

Having finished his short rant, the dwarf continues with the activities of his day to day life. 

((I understand this view but if it is a true conflict move it to the weekend. If we move it back too far PST Players, including myself will not be able to make it.))

Agreed, hold it on Friday or during the weekend sometime. It's not on to have an event on that's for the nation at such a time, especially during exam season. Some people would have to stay up longer than us in the UK that are in the GMT bundle. Not to mention people are making out rp consequences for lack of attendance by certain groups. The coronation doesn't need to be so long, we can hold two events if needed. 

7pm EST translates to 12 at night for us in the UK. This is still during exam season and a weekday, I find this completely unacceptable as a GMT player, due to the time and length of the event you're planning. Even if it wasn't exam season it would be unacceptable due to how late it is. Can you move it back a few hours please? 

Tarren scowls at Ellsia and Dwain, as he mutters to Dared.

"This is for science! How can they be so conceited and to think that only runesmithing and golemancy on it's own is enough? It is important to think of the possibilities we can do with our abilities, rather than focus alone on the prestige that comes from our abilities.

((Updating post now, I'm currently writing the first major event up which will be "Test Subject Alpha". Please look forwards to it! Any questions you may have, feel free to message me or nalatac. In game, forums or skype.))

Golem Industries

“We do what we must, because we can.”

Introduction

Golem Industries is an independent research corporation, with the ambition to become the forefront of knowledge. Founded by two respectable dwarves, they aim to increase to become the spearhead of what is currently the “Age of Industry”. Through research, and commerce they to create a home for scholars and knowledge seekers. Ushering in the what they hope to be an “Age of Enlightenment.”

Aims & Objectives Current Aims (Will be updated):

• Increase our number to fifteen.

• Create and build a multi-pieced golem.

• Create Portal device or Portals.

• Remain Independent.

• Create a Mechanized suit or something similar.

• Have fun.

• Create a Golem with enough sass to rival Paragon Yudora.

• Enter the Creators Palace and hold a birthday party for him.

Current Objectives (Will be updated):

• Complete the basic construction of Golemic Research Chambers (Headquarters) within the Month.

• Hold an event every week, and write a post afterwards detailing what happened.

• Create “Jeeves” the Wood Golem.

• Create a butlers outfit for Wooden Golem.

• Within the first month, hold the event “Subject Alpha.”

• Begin testing on animal type golems within the first two months.·          

History Chapter 1 - Origins

24th of Sun’s Smile, 1460 - Dared & Tarren Starbreaker begin construction of the Golem Research Laboratory. During construction with their assistant Sharr Irongut, the idea comes to them to form Golem Industries to further their research.

Rules & Regulations

Overview ((OOC and IC))

Please note that this contract is one that you make with your soul on the line ((meaning it is an IC and OOC agreement)). Golem Industries does not posses any malicious intent towards it’s employees but would like to stress that these terms and conditions are here for safeguard the companies interest. And would like to inform you that the most extreme of these is only to be done in extreme cases.

Rules & Regulations :

Subject to Change

By joining this guild, you accept that these terms are subject to change. ((Basicly means more to be added to))

 

Subject of Ownership

By participating in one of our experiments be it as a researcher, test subject or observer you agree that any research material, data or results belong to Golem Industries Inc. By violating this contract you agree that you’re subject to a permanent death ((PK)) and are unable to pass on any knowledge you might have learned through any means.

 

Leasing Golem Industries Possessions.

Golem Industries is willing to lease its possession to a certain groups, nations or factions under the agreement that the information belongs to Golem Industries and any results from research into said possessions is to be shared with the corporation. By violating this contract you agree that you’re subject to a permanent death ((PK)) and are unable to pass on any knowledge you might have learned through any means.

 

Contract Termination

Upon the end of your contract , i.e leaving the corporation you the employee or subject are allowed to request one piece of information or object that the Corporation will release it’s ownership of. Please be aware that depending on your rank, you are allowed to request certain types of information or objects. But please remember that Golem Industries retains the right to deny for whatever reason .

 

Test Subjects

You agree as a subject that you forfeit all rights as a human, orc, elf or whatever species you belong to. You also agree that so long as you’re in the experiment you’re possession of Golem Industries. Golem Industries would like you to know that they would normally offer compensation, but will not always be able to do so. Please not, that by agreeing to this you are unable to sue or take Golem Industries to any form of court.

 

Terms of Access

You the employee or test subject, are able to allowed to access any information you gain from experiments depending on your rank. Obviously Golem Industries will not hand out knowledge or golemancy or runesmithing. But they’re willing to share information gained from experiments. Such as a golems weaknesses from certain tests.

 

Right to Party

Employees or Golem Industries are allowed to request parties. Golem Industries shall do their best to cater to employees wishes to bunga bunga or to simply drink until they drop. We shall do so by providing Golem dancers.

 

Employee List & Rankings

El Presidente [subject to name change]

Tarren Starbreaker

Dared Starbreaker

Head Researcher

Researcher

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Research Assistant

Beranabus Whitewolf (Booklight12)

Gamril Forkbeard ( _Ritterbruder_ ) 

Bowman Irongut (Destroyer_Bravo)

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Favoured Test Subject

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Test Subject

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Guinea Pig

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Location

Kal’Arkon - Undercity (Headquarters).

((Screenshots to come soon.))

Application

Researcher Application

 

MC Name :

Name ((RP) :

Race :

Do you agree to the terms and conditions?

 

Test Subject Application

 

MC Name :

Name ((RP)):

Race :

Do you agree to the terms and conditions?

 

((Yes this post is serious, and it is currently still being edited.))

Eldak wants to stroke his golem anvil, but decides not to.

Farren raises a brow, considering he destroyed all the anvils in Anthos with the Hammer of Ardol. Considering he can still do Golemancy without an anvil, no way would such a thing exist. And considering only himself, and another now deceased dwarf knows how to create another one he is thoroughly confused.

I would rather be "clicked to death" in a few short seconds if I have to log out or go afk. Rather than spending 15mins - 1hour of emote fighting. 

People who will abuse the system will always exist. Be if RP Default or PVP Default. Either way in regards to expanding roleplay, rather than forcing it upon people. Shouldn't we try to encourage it? The best way to do that is to do so in game, rather than on the forums trying to force change. 

Fimlin grins as he knows that the next high prophet won't remove paragons willy nilly "T'orik is ah paragon tuh bad fer ye, Weh Grandaxes jus' beh to good at dis."

Farren would like to point out that Fimlin is wrong. Since it'll most likely being the list being reversed, considering Chase removed a lot of Paragons and added a few without consulting the Prophets.

Hi I'm Dave. Basicly over the last few days/weeks I've been hearing the same type of statements over and over.

"Oh I'm fed up of this map, Fringe is boring... I'll do it in 4.0." , ect....

Well considering it's not really in our best interest to rush 4.0 . The question arises should we go to another temp map? Similar to how we went from Elysium to Kalos. Lore reasoning aside yes or no? Post thoughts or whatever you want to say down below. 

That's it... Just vote, I don't really know what else to say for now blah blah....

Wulfgar gives a nod of his head in approval.

 

"Nuw t'ey can shut up 'bout bein' oppressed!"

Tarren shakes his head at Wulfgar's comment, muttering.

"Starbreaker oppression..."

Farren nods in agreement as he begins to clap.

"About bloodeh time!"

Farren shakes 

 

"What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature, through great effort?"

Balek Irongut proclaims.

 

((-Paarthurnax yo))

 

Farren nods in agreement with Baleks words.

"Never were truer words said. For when you think about it, many cave dwarves have some Ironborn Blood in then, due to the Blood Age. So what will you do? Slay every cave dwarf in sight? What we must halt is the legacy of the Ironborn, and those who seek to rebuild the Empire of Khorvad. Dizzy if he was corrupted must step down, that is true. Maybe bar him  from running for such positions due to the corruption. If that is the case, but for the love of Anabella can we stop this Ironborn charade?"

Why were you guys always late? Like seriously I remember as an Oren Guard we were fighting off Undead. Then the Ascended roll in when the actions all over going "It's fine now, we're here!". Appearing after the fight.

((MC name: tethras  ))

Name: Farren Starbreaker

Candidates

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Fimlin Grandaxe

Vorstag Grandaxe 

Jorik Grandaxe X

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Kjellos descends from the heavens, the Khaz'A'Dentrumm, and proceeds to ***** slap his kinsdwarf. "Change da vote! Fawk tah wee clans, dey he da product ov Khorvad an' da great collapse." Then with his heavenly grace returns to the heavens to pass judgement on the dead.

Farren glances at the crazed dwarf, shouting his ramblings. Resisting the urge to laugh and mock, the former great dwarf he returns to drink his ale. Giving one last sigh as dwarf who had succumbed to madness left. Before returning to mumble to himself on how his precious undercity has been defiled.

Also can we do media competitions? Like a minas prize for the winner, or like t1-2 donation or something? Gets the community more involved, and might help create better content. Depending on the theme that is. 

I'll be brutally honest here, you have to be really harsh when you choose who does the voicing. Honestly, in most trailers including the one quoted above by Susitsu the voicing makes me cringe. Seriously, it makes me feel bad for playing the server. It's harsh but that's the blunt truth. With voicing I'll break it down to what I feel is crucial.

• Voice - Peoples voices are important, it's basicly sets someone's first impression of you and the server. I think this goes more for the person who's doing the interview rather than the person they're interviewing. You need to find a Morgan Freeman of LoTC, and if you can't then find someone's who's close enough. Because you really don't want people who sound like this.
• Tone - Don't be too serious all the time, LoTCBC is an example of that. Have fun with it, unless it's something like a trailer. Then you have to be serious... Well kinda. Overly serious makes me want to cringe, like I end up treating it as one of those videos I would go out of my way to close down as soon as someone enters the room out of pure shame just from watching it. 
• Content - I think others touched on this but if it's full of inside jokes and unknown references no ones gonna get it. Not to mention the content varies on what you're doing. Stick to forum post for news, and focus on showing off big battles. Doing some sort of "Let's plays", podcast and livestreams. I would advise, to make LoTC seem less "nerdy". So people don't get put off by it. 

Overall I'm not a fan of LoTC related content that involves people speaking. Since normally it's too serious and makes me feel embarrassed to watch it, and not in a good way at all. Stuff like "LoTC with me" or whatever Zilldudes thing was called (sorry) is fine though. Because it doesn't take itself seriously, it's just someone having fun. Not overly nerdy and really just a laugh. What am I trying to get at? Avoid "official" content involving the need for people to speak unless you have someone with a great voice, and try to make LoTC seem less "nerdy". I think that's one thing that puts people off roleplaying and LoTC. Make it seem more casual and fun, rather than strict and boring. Podcast, livestreams and recordings are fine. But try to sound like you're having some sort of fun, not like the Media Team Leader has a gun pointed to your head. Or vice versa. 

Apart from that do what Coaster said, big battles and stuff. Show more Mc related things, like plugins and wars. Rather than a wall of text, showing someone raising his hand to greet you. Short and sweet, people are lazy and want to see things happening. Rather than walls of text, forcing them to lean forward and read the screen.  Last note, I do hate the term nerd, geek, ect. But that's how people will view it, and I did say I would be brutally honest in what I think.

#Rambleover 

Edit: Now this does not mean I dislike the media team, in fact I enjoy some of their work. I feel it's not just the media team that needs to change, but also us. We need to be a bit more ready to say if we like things, or otherwise the MT will go into an endless loop of not knowing what the playerbase wants. To gently give them a push, after all they're not those who've spend years making trailers for large companies, ect. Just people who happen to be good with a camera or a pen, or whatever. And I'll truly end on that note. 

"Tu Engineers are actualleh doing somefin wif tu underciteh? Or in fact anyfin at all?" Farren says, chuckling slightly as he reads the notice.

"Last ah saw, was some rubble everywhere, an nae actual work bein' done. In fact more ov ah defilement ov friends work un tu place. Which I have half a mind tu claim back..."

This is stupid, two protected regions who hate each other will raid each other into oblivion with no effect except for pissing everyone off where ban reports fly up the wazoo with no end in sight because "YOU CANT INVADE MY LAND. I FORBID IT OOCLY"

Well considering you can just raid a group into submission now. Kinda like what happened to the Elves, I do have to laugh. To quote Ned Lud:

 

 

This is a horrible idea and would be completely mishandled by the many power-monging 24/7 no-lifers that linger on Team Speak and Skype. I can already sit here on this forum and see them all slowly making their power-grabs and posturing themselves for a 4.0 faction server.

But who knows? I could be wrong. 

Done. I'm just recalibrating the lasers so I can point it towards whomever I want.

Don't forget the convenient hole, where if you fire down said hole it'll blow up!

I've always roleplayed assuming steel is a thing. Either way I don't really see a problem with it, considering iron is roleplayed as steel by most players. Either way if it becomes a "thing" or not it doesn't really matter. Since either way at this stage everyone will be on the same playing field by having steel.  

Edit: I've never had a problems with roleplaying steel. Haha, sure I heard mentioned of the orc "poop" crafted steel. But GM's didn't mind, in fact they only minded when people tried to have weapons named after historical things such as "Excalibur." So maybe it's a recent thing? Or just down to the GM?

As Hiebe stated, no more sons of Urguan. It helps keep stability, not to mention saves us a lot of issues with people claiming they have things from Urguan because they're a son, ect. I would be more of a lost clan with it's founders father not known. Like most clans are these days. The way it works there are eight sons of Urguan. But Dwarves in rp state seven, calling the eight (the Ironborn) the "Forbidden son." Saves us a lot of issues that way, rather than everyone claiming they are Urguans sons. Changing things to suit their clan, such as making out they were favoured with gifts or abilities, ect. Cliff Dwarves, can just be the characteristics of the founder dwarf. Doesn't need to be a son of Urguan.
 
Personally I'm against this, seeing I don't really see the point in another subrace. It just further divides the playerbase, which to be honest isn't as big as people think. But go for making a clan with this culture. I just feel that the forest dwarves tried the whole, "we're isolated." It doesn't work, the Dwarves have shown that they want the subraces/clans to interact to mesh in their cities. Not for one of them to kinda go off on their own. 
 
Edit: Just a note with subraces, take the recent Doomforge or the Thunderfirst wierd mutation. You don't have to be a son of Urguan to have "unique traits". Could come from simple evolution, or mutation.