Bucky_24

Most fun warclaim I’ve ever participated in, that's for sure. Drowned while standing in a tree o7. Maybe we should make it a new rule not to have half the map covered in water? Or idk.. start peeps a little further away would be nice too. We ran out and didn’t even make it to the water before y’all were on us. If they were gonna spawn us that close, why not just cut half the map down and make it a straight shot? We were excited to do some boat flanks, some water fights, and make it all splishy splashy. Add in the 15m of frozen server and the great joy of the server getting the most kills via dudes falling from the map... best 25m I’ve ever played ?

Lucion ponders aloud, “It says here, ‘Should a man partake in this action, her body shall be cleansed by fire’. So if a man marries, say an elf, the elf gets cleansed? What if a man marries a male elf? Do both men just partake in public humiliation or is the male elf also cleansed by fire?”

Lucion listens to a retelling of the battle with a puzzled look on his face, “That’s not how it happened... Haenseni MEN had prepared to take to the lake. But on that day, the lake thought itself a sea and bashed boats with skygod-level tides. The battle was so chaotic, time itself seemed to freeze for what felt like a day. As if Iblees himself was at the forefront of Renantian ‘soldiers’, time snapped back into place with dead Haenseni men floating about in the sea. Truly, it was a day where evil worked its magic. For no man would dare call it a fight. It was an unholy reckoning. Thus, seeing the proud, brave, yet somehow dead, soldiers of Haense floating in the tides of chaos, the men and women of the land rose up and tried to force Renantian devils from their lands. But even the sheer valor of the great Haenseni people was nothing to the barbarism of the Renantians. They cut down unarmed men, women, and children as if they were not sons and daughters of Horen. Truly, the day will be remembered as one where Renatus showed their true colors. That of bloodthirsty pillagers who cut down free people for daring to seek their own liberties.”

I'm bias, I'll put this right here at the top for all to see. I love Orcs and have loved them since Aegis. I love blah, slavery, raiding, spirit worship, hunts, and tavern brawls. That might just be me, but this is why I'm putting a massive disclaimer before getting into the meat and potatoes. Blah is imho, the most simple language we have on LotC outside of common, which is just English. There are only a handful of direct words to use, and it's a simple matter, again in my opinion, to replace letters with the phonetic transcription of what you're trying to say. I'm getting to the point where my own thoughts, the little voice in my head, is replacing words with their blah counterparts. That being said, I highly, highly encourage all new orcs to play Goblins. Goblins have considerably less restrictions on Blah, as they have the smaller tusks. It's an easier transition for new players to get into the spirit of the Orcish RP and provides an avenue to learn about the culture. I get that most people don't like Orc RP, but what I don't understand is that everyone calls it 'memey'. Can someone PM me, or post examples of what they consider meme rp? Because that just seems to be a catch all with little actual substance. I get no one wants to be the victim, everyone has a need for their character to be the hero, but I don't really see how Snaga (Slave) raids or sacrificial RP is memey, while The Church runs around and just kills anyone who doesn't worship their god. What makes Orc RP a memefest, but not human Cannonist RP? I'm trying to understand, not attack anyone here. We need examples if we are to change. What we don't need is OOC drama everytime we interact because other players don't understand how the race is designed to function. It's not memey for an Olog to speak like an idiot, they /are/ idiots. It's not memey for us to gather a sacrifice, we need them for our RP and try to make it enjoyable for whomever is being sacrificed. I will leave one last complaint geared towards the rest of the playerbase, which I just find ironic. We hangout in our city, yet no one every visits. So we are left to our own devices and only go into other lands when there is something to acquire. We are the literal embodiment of our lore in the sense of dealing with harrassment by other races, we face so much out of character harrassment that most of the Orcs I've spoken with don't even like to leave Orc lands, just like how the race is written in lore. People hate orcs, so when we lash out at the hate IRP, we are still the bad guys. We are pushed into isolation because other players do not want to be around us, then harrassed that we only leave the city to do villain RP. Imagine IC or OOC that everytime you leave your lands, you are harrassed, why would you welcome those same people with open arms either IC or OOC? I refer back to Sutica just days ago where a band of Orcs were running about, and we found a Gypsy player claiming that something was trying to kill her. We then took her to the safety of a city, in case there was a monster outside, and were harrassed OOCly for villain RP. We saved a human, and still received harrassment. How exactly are we supposed to take this punishment everytime we play? Help us improve, don't harrass us. Don't act like we are all bad because you heard that the RP was bad. Tell us how you think it would be better, and then we can make progress. PM me everything. Every grievance, every complaint, and every suggestion. I'm dying to hear it all. I'm serious.

It breaks down pretty simply for me, let the mods worry about moderating, and if you're a player just play. It's pretty sad that it's hard to find good RP, but you can find DOZENS of multi-paragraph posts where players have their pitchforks and want to do some ole fashion rioting. If y'all spent half as much effort working on your RP skills as you do crafting that 'expert opinion' dis on the staff, we'd have one hell of a server.