cometking123

he's stupid

+1

he's alright. good guy. better staff member

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Good people of Axios!

We, the Last Pine Tavern located in Halstaig, has provided a new challenge for the hungry and brave adventurers of Axios. Born from dark-thoughts and many, many tankards of ale, the Adunian Bellyslam is the most delicious, lip-smacking, spiciest dish that anyone in Axios has posted on the bounty board. Weighing almost as much as a three-year old, the Adunian Bodyslam contains the following ingredients:

2 rounds of Adunian Rye Bread

2 porkchops

1 haunch of rabbit

3 ladles of smashed taters

1 full roasted chicken

5 orders of chips, fried to perfection and seasoned with salt and Matrim's secret spice n' herb blend

Heaping amounts of gravy

Various vegetables

Harian Peppers

Dragon's Breath

& More!

This is not a dish for the faint of heart. Should you attempt this challenge, be prepared for the food to fight back. As is customary in Halstaig, we invite one challenger out of your group to attempt to finish the Adunian Bellyslam on their own. If they are not successful, we then invite the other members of your group to attempt to finish the dish. Please note that if the single challenger is not successful, you MUST pay for a round of drinks for the whole tavern (including your group). Should the single challenger finish the dish on their own, we will provide them with a monetary reward and their name immortalized within the Last Pine Tavern. 

Please note that due to the size and various ingredients involved, you MUST send a bird to the current owner of the Last Pine Tavern ((CompiledCake)) to attempt this challenge. In addition, you must come in as a group, as we do not want leftovers.

Wanted: The Adunian Bellyslam

Threat Level: Easy

Suggested party-members: 2-5

Location: Fort Halstaig, at the Lone Pine Tavern

Reward(s): 50 minas upon its completion, and your name upon the Wall of FAME 

((Message myself on the forums to schedule the event))

MY MAN

*Looking upon the nondescript sign, he puts his name by etching it in with a sharp stick.*

"Edward"

*He leaves the small sign.*

Hoho!

Haha!

Seems we've been kicked out mate.

Ah! No matter. A merchant will go where a merchant is needed, and that is toward the sewers.

Aye. We will go again! That's wot we do best.

As merchants, it is our humble duty to go and sell everything, to everyone! Even th' rats in the sewers!

Aye, that it is! Come along now!

The merchant looks for new customers in the overwhelming miasma of the sewers.

((Put your RP name, followed by your Minecraft username))

Name ((OOC Name)): Edward Poesroes(CompiledCake))

Surname/House:

Date of Birth ((Example: 11th of Sun’s Smile, 1520)): Example 19th of Grand Harvest, 1530

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Citizenship Class (A or B): B

Physical Description

Height: 5 feel 9 inches

Weight: 172 pounds

Eye Color: Gray

Hair Color: Brown

Skin Color/Shade: Light Brown

Outstanding Markings/Tattoos: None

Personal Information

Home Address (Leave blank if unknown):

Region of Residence (Leave blank if unknown):

Profession/Occupation: Lumberjack

Have you paid your processing fee (CLASS A CITIZENS ONLY!):

((Please provide a screenshot of the payment.))

Oath(s) of Loyalty

For all classes of Citizenship (fill your name in the blanks):

"I, Edward Poesroe, hereby swear my loyalty the Emperor of the Holy Orenian Empire entirely by my free will. I swear to read and obey the laws of the Empire and understand the punishments and penalties that will be incurred should I violate the law."

I'll be around for a couple days. I had college so I've been relatively inactive. It'd be great to RP with you again. 

OOC
Minecraft Name: cometking123
Timezone: HST
Skype: Don't want to put on in guilds. I don't like OOC interaction.
Anything you'd like us to know?: Meh. I'm just gonna have fun. 
IC
Name:  Idanin Garett
Age: 32
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Alignments: Anywhere with good food
Skills: Eating, Cooking, and...eating. (and eavesdropping on the location of food stores)
Anything you'd like us to know?: Nay

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I put up for Awesomenauts

I do believe that food in 4.0 will only last so long (( a few days or so?)) before it rots and becomes useless making  a need for farmers to be constantly farming  instead of just stock Pilling like what happens now.

Amen to that. When people don't have a need for food and just continually stockpiles it, it bristles my hair as a cook. 

I just hope that 4.0 has a way to store resources used to craft/make food so that nations aren't continually starving. i.e Make bread rot in a couple of days, but let wheat and potatoes rot over a week or so. . I think this would ultimately be the best case scenario.

Skype Name: cometking123

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I think that OOC interaction with plans is a large part of what makes secret things actually secret. 

Locked TS channels and Skype channels destroy the concept of eavesdropping onto a certain organization or guild, and only through extreme infiltration and a certain degree of trust can any useful information be found.

While I'm not saying things have to be changed, I think that things in character should be exposed to more people through the server instead of 3rd party applications. 

Just my 2cents.

((Look at you. What a joker you are))

ZING

7/10 Pope for lyfe

((To add on to this NO OOC RULE))

Standard tactics in espionage will be applied. These includes ciphers, codephrases, and dead drops. These will all be done through MC books and other MC game mechanics. Do keep in mind that all OOC conversations ((i.e strategy meetings and TS chatter during battles in OOC communications MAY be recorded and transcribed if used and listened into by one of the agents of Inforum Populi.))

With this in mind, you can easily collect a dead drop, or figure out the cipher, assuming that you have an inside agent or collect enough pieces of information. What I'm trying to do here is to facilitate RP for both members of the organization and for those that collect and keep information safe. With dead drops and ciphers, it is up to you to figure out a message and potentially gain insight into other guilds, organizations, and antagonists. If anyone would like to cooperate or to submit feedback regarding this idea, please post here. Danke :)

You are one of many people within the world of Anthos. And yet, tonight of all nights, there lay an letter upon the aviary of your local town. Seemingly without a owner, you reach out for the letter to determine its origin. As you inspect this plain letter, you realize that this may be one of them recruitment letters for them shady guilds. You look inside it anyways, to see this message. 

 

Let me say this bluntly. This letter is for recruiting people for a certain project in my mind. There is danger. There are risks. But there is money to be made at the end of this road. Take my word for this. Let me also promise you this. We do not murder. We do not extort. We do not steal. But this organization is organized for one thing and one thing only.

.

Information 

You look at this letter oddly. What a load of nonsense.

 

The aim is simple. You collect information about a certain topic. I pay you for it. That is it. Nothing else. We work to serve a simple cause, and that is to turn over all the stones. To uncover every nook and cranny of Anthos there is. If you'd like to join this noble cause, send this to the Abresi Aviary. 

You look at the letter as it ends, and it is up to you now to decide whether you will join this "noble" cause, or if it's just a load of folly. 

OOC

This is, simply put, a experiment whether an espionage group can exist purely IC. Which means no Skype, TS, or other means of OOC communication. If possible, I'd like to use this group primarily as a way of selling information to parties that need it. There is no VA required to join this guild, unless if you want to steal information or threaten others for information.  NEW PLAYERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO JOIN.

Please put your application within this forum topic. Further details and meetings will be added via PM. THIS WILL BE THE ONLY TIME IN WHICH OOC COMMUNICATION WILL BE USED. KEEP THAT IN MIND.

APPLICATION:

MC NAME:

CHARACTER NAME:

WHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN?

WHAT PROFESSION WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE?

ARE YOU WILLING TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY OR TO STEAL TO RECIEVE INFORMATION?

DO YOU HAVE A VA? (Y/N) IF SO, PLEASE PUT A LINK.

0/10

THE PONY IS RAW YOU FOOLS. REDO IT!

*throws pony in the trashcan*

I got from my analysis that these professions do not have any innate power or authority. Combat rp and magic rp are quite easily the most sought after profession, just because it has "power" over someone else.

 

Cooks, blacksmiths, tradesmens, these people do not have authority, unless you are the best in your trade. Chumpchump (tuv) wields a large amount of respect, because minas has 'power'. Some Kings have 'power'. Being in a combat profession gives you 'power over life and death', which appeals to many.

 

But in minecraft, can we say that a terribly made piece of bread looks any different to well baked bread? Or the quality of a tool actually matters? There isn't a need for these professions to exist, hence why the scarcity of people roleplaying these professions.

 

I have heard of the argument "The community should be more accepting of us, deal with it in rp, blah." The thing is, nothing validates us. I have rped as a cook, a smith, and at one point even a brewer. I have all the IRL theory to back myself and my rp, but lets face it even if I weren't one, nobody would specifically seek me out to create food or weapons, unless it had some sort of power/variance to it.

 

Combat rp is verified in the form of titles, rewards, and pvp. Magic rp is verified from being listed and validated by the MAT< and supposedly getting a slice of the magic plugin. Positions of powers are coveted  because people obey you, although this highly depends on the individual's charm and leadership qualities. 

 

If a regular person can cook as well as a highly trained chef, there is no point in roleplaying professions. Its safe to say any of these profession rpers are doing this out of their own satisfaction, and there are just a lack of people to appreciate them.

And I suppose that's what the professions system is going to address. Which is good. Very good. 

I suppose people could say that RP'er do this to their own satisfaction, but what can people do to really appreciate those who do RP things? 

This is just a simple discussion thread about the following questions.

1. What is the most practiced profession that is "RP'ed?" (i,e Blacksmithing, Cooking, Farming, etc)

2. Why aren't more people RP'ing out their professions?

3. What can people do to promote RP in their professions.

RP'ing out their professions means using emotes to convey the process of their professions. For instance, a blacksmith would heat up the metal in their furnace and shape the metal from there. Of course, they don't HAVE to do it. But at least show off your roleplaying chops in front of other people instead of standing quietly.

To answer these questions in my terms (I'm RP'ing mostly a cook), I'd say that things mostly are...

A: A lack of direction

B: A lack of conduits

Both of these points can be argued, but especially in the profession that I'm trying desperately to promote, these two are the most pressing reasons. Why is that and what do these problems entail and contribute toward the main problem of Rp'ing a profession?

A: There is a lack of direction and assistance starting off. Unlike the magic system where people are mentored in magic and the general skills in RPing it, people are often left out of dabbling in the profession in which they want to get started in. For instance, in many kitchens today new and promising chefs today have often apprenticed in other people's kitchens. From there, they learn the basics  I'm not asking for some long winded application system (shudder) for the sole reason of contributing to the output of profession RP'ers, but rather some guides or even some RP apprenticeships that one could pursue. I've been working on a guide, and it'd be nice if other people can too. I think this applies to other professions as well such as farming and blacksmithing Now the apprenticeship thingy ties into my next point, which is the fact that there is...

B. a lack of conduits. Currently on a server there are 3 ways to (literally) make money being a chef

1: Work at a inn or tavern, which often doesn't have any customers if placed incorrectly and/or too slow to actually make a profit.

2. Build your own establishment, which requires a absurd amount of capital to even get started and maybe won't even work due to disterest/bad location

3. Just cook out on a campfire and do catering work, which I have done, but oftentimes aren't reliable sources of money.

As you can see, there isn't much "opportunities" for cooking RP'ers to solidify themselves into a position where they are able to take on and serve other people in a concise location. Many times in my RP life on LOTC every one of my characters are ultimately interacting with a select group of clients from which I serve in the end without a place of my own, shutting down everyone else due to lack of publicity and most importantly, a lack of permanence. I find this lack of permanence to a business most threatening in a occupation of a RP chef. Without places to work and a proper kitchen, you'd be surprised how little one like me can do. In addition, it shuts down the opportunity for those interested to come and look what it's all about, which severs the amount of people who actually participate. 

I'm not saying that this is "SUPER IMPORTANT" or a pressing issue unlike some other things within LOTC, but I think that this is a important in the fact that this brings immersion into our world like nothing else. Without the farmers and the cooks and the tailors who bring in rich oppurtunuties of RP, what else is there aside from magic and wars? It brings a certain quality that puts us ahead over other RP servers, and quite frankly I think we're losing that spark which makes LOTC so special.

Welp that's my opinion. You're welcome to share your opinion, as well as what we can do to fix this matter.  

I VOLUNTEER