Eleatic
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9 hours ago, Space said:
all mods are bastards not approving my ****....
if you’ve seen Silence, were you able to watch it with any amount of like support for the colonizers? i couldn’t help but think ‘yeah no **** these guys they should be merked’
what 20th century american labour movement person would you like to revive and talk to the most. mine’s definitely gotta be Pete Seeger ‘cause of his music, but that’s a bit lame so lets say Lucy Parsons would be cool
The brutal persecution of Japanese Christians by despots doesn’t make me particularly happy. The events the book/movie are based on are horrifying, by all accounts—forcing Christians to trample icons is evil. The Jesuits weren’t colonizers, they were evangelists, and evangelism isn’t automatically bad just because it’s WeSTeRN. Persecution and the systematic extermination of a minority aren’t somehow justified because that minority poses a threat to the status quo.
Also, Peter Maurin would be my pick! Seeger would be up there too, though.
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4 hours ago, Telanir said:
Yes, though that nuance is nasty. I can dress an empty sentence in superfluous tangents, passive voice, and adjectives. Likely, it will sound clever at first glance but it’s too easy to get lost in them, especially as the author. The short sentence is more powerful. You just can’t BS in them.
You’ve got that right. Most useful thing I learned in HS English was the importance of sentence variety. ?
On the second question, definitely P&P RP, preferably with a high fatality system like Dungeon Crawl Classics. On the third, I probably won’t be coming back any time soon--school and stuff. I can barely devote time to my IRL interests as-is. ?
2 hours ago, Man of Respect said:Is it true that people made kharajyrs with the sole intention of ERP and there were brothels?
I was briefly a Kha when they first got introduced, don’t remember anything like that. I was also twelve/thirteen so that might’ve had something to do with my obliviousness.
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7 minutes ago, Unwillingly said:
How do you feel the community itself has changed over the years?
A bit toxic for a couple of years, got better, not sure how it is now!
QuoteHow do you feel the quality or type of RP has changed over the years?
There’s only ever been a steady improvement in the quality of the RP on the server. If you compared a typical RP encounter in Aegis to one today, you’d be floored.
Quote Who is it you look up to the most, when it comes to RP and OOC?
Though he’s no longer with us, I always really appreciated what Watyll brought to the table--he was an irreplaceable asset to this community and a wonderful human being. I’d say I look up to him the most out of players past and present. May his memory be eternal.
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12 minutes ago, Telanir said:
The writer’s most powerful tool is the pair of scissors.
Do you agree with this statement?
Definitely. That said, there’s space for flowery writing. The thing is, you can only locate that space after you’ve learned the basics--all writing should be clean, mean, and lean, unless you know what the hell you’re doing.
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2 hours ago, NotEvilAtAll said:
Do people in LoTC write as many books as they used to back in Aegis? Is that a good thing or a bad thing in your opinion?
I think a lot of the ‘in-game’ writing has dwindled in the last few years--though I have seen a few random libraries popping up on the new maps, which might throw a wrench in my analysis.
QuoteAre the longer/more detailed emotes of modern LoTC a great thing for roleplay or mostly meaningless fluff? I’ve heard arguments on both sides from ancient LoTCers, and I’d like to know your opinion on it.
Unless you’re the next James Joyce or Pynchon (and let’s be real if you’re on here you’re prolly not), you shouldn’t be maximalizing your prose. There’s a golden mean here, between the extremes of ‘you probably can’t even string four words together’ and ‘oh holy s--- this guy is writing an entire novel for his block man’. The mean is what people should aim for--the lesser is anorexia and the greater is morbid obesity.
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7 minutes ago, NotEvilAtAll said:
>says the person with Lenin in their Profile Picture.
Anyways, do you think that all of the extra detail put into modern LoTC builds when compared to Aegis LoTC builds is necessary or not?
rude that’s a dread knight no leninism here
Necessary for attracting new players? Maybe. Necessary in general? Nah. One of the best things about Aegis and Asulon was how free a lot of the role-play was, mechanically, stylistically, and architecturally (those cobblestone houses). That said, the Temple should always be a nice build--if only because it’s a sort of official staging ground.
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9 hours ago, Ever said:
October, eh? That’s cute. ?
Memes aside:
- Favorite event?
- Favorite singular character?
- Favorite build? Whether it be a city, monument, etc.
- When all the evil/construct characters stormed the Druids at the behest of Watyll’s cult.
- My bard char. that got turned into a Dread Knight--longest I’ve ever spent on a single character.
- The Asulon CT! Also, the DK base from the fringe maps--all those random new players acting as slaves in the soulsand region.
october is perfectly ancient ?
8 hours ago, Space said:don’t you think that the study of ‘western classics’ is an inherently white supremacist and chauvinistic act? that the entire basis of some form of western canon is the brutal subjugation of all but wealth white men?
who all had like really **** ideas in general too ******* francis bacon my ass habsburg looking motherfucker
When a first century Palestinian Jew was right where Plato and Aristotle were at best incomplete and at worst flat wrong, I’d agree. ?
also tankie begone
7 hours ago, chaosgamer said:Which map/world was your favorite?
Tied 2.0 and 3.5.
4 hours ago, Salvo said:How do you feel that compared to me (Ancient June 2011 race) you’re nothing but a drooling noob?
Deeply shook.
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11 minutes ago, Lockezi said:
do you regret joining lotc
Not really. I was twelve when I started playing on LoTC. I’ll be twenty in a couple months. I spent way too much of my adolescence here, yeah, but I met so many wonderful people---and that makes it all worthwhile, I think.
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9 minutes ago, Gallic said:
Is there a specific era of the server that you feel is the ‘best’?
2.0. Especially early 2.0. I have so many fond memories of the Cloud Temple as a sort of ridiculous hub for melodramatic character based roleplay, the little makeshift settlements (Seventis and Ravenholm (a city made on an artificial island!) to mind) sprinkled around the map, the DnD rip-offs (cough Mori cough), the ridiculous scandals. It might not have been the most polished time in LoTC’s history, but there were was a lot of really wonderful enthusiasm on here in those days. It was almost magical (which is funny, since there was almost no magic to speak of early 2.0!).
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1 hour ago, SquakHawk said:
what do you think is the biggest change or difference from the old lotc? besides of course, minecraft version
As subjective as this response might be, the ‘vibe’. LoTC 1.0-2.0 was much more relaxed. I think you can feel that pretty acutely if you look back at RP posts from Aegis and Asulon: a lot of the people who are, or were, pillars of the community (with respect to the quality of their storytelling) now were god-awful writers back then. Cliches from almost every medium imaginable popped up everywhere in those days. That said, the community was also really tight knit---when the whole thing with Vaquixine happened, I remember there being a real solidarity among the players here.
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I joined Oct. ‘11. I’ve been here since (almost eight years!). Not been active for the past few years, mind--high school, college, being a human, they take time away from blocky hi-jinks. Doubt I have many interesting anecdotes. Still. Shoot, if anyone has any questions. ?
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The player monks were a hotbed for religious RP, then the staff removed them for reasons I can't even remember at the moment. Bring back the Monks and make the CT a religious RP area again.
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eyy I remember you from when you were a newbie
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A new map has never really, well, helped, in my experience. The move over is fun. The storyline is fun. The first few (days? weeks?) of exploration are fun. But after that, it's the same shebang.
A priority should be restoring and conserving the existing map rather than tossing it in favor of the new. I think a strength of Asulon and Aegis, for all their faults, was the building policy and the efforts the moderators at the time took to avoid griefing while also allowing sporadic construction. Returning to something like that would be--at-least, from where this old sod is sitting--a solid way (not the only way) to help reinvigorate RP. Allow more independent construction, even if it can sometimes be shoddy and cliquish.
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A major issue I've had with LoTC's antagonists is that they, without fail, are just very. . . trope-y. They're the bad guys. No exception. Who's going to support a rotting carcass that worships a terrible, ghastly geist like Iblees? Give the players a reason to (potentially) have some empathy or respect for the villain of the story. Give the players the ability to join with them, or aid them, not for the sake of PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWAH, but because they believe in what they're doing.
See, the Undead, all that lot, they don't really seem to have the pretense of personal narrative. They are evil. This is a fact. A true fact. No disputing it. The smelly flesh really sells it. Thing is, no creature, no entity, no being outside of a late-Classic Doctor Who villain (cough Fenric) is evil for the sake of being evil. That's just bad story-writing.
Any new antagonist should be far more grey, far more sympathizable, far less kablamy. Turn down the twirly mustache evil and ramp up the questions of ethical or moral conflict.
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((without a subject here delenda est just means that a female must be destroyed
fyi))
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I like it.
(Elder Monk Jae from 2.0/2.5/3.0/3.5, here. No longer play on LoTC).
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'Axios'
Tythus and Telanir are Orthodox christian evangelists CONFIRMED
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((Considering the current war claim, this will be rescheduled for next week on saturday. Same time)).
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The rusted sovereign of Anthos grumbles. Its helmet drifts upward, gazing at the stars. Its makes a sound more akin to a screech than a laugh. The figure remains there, still for a few moments. At once it moves to awaken once again, pounding through the grass and the dirt of the trail, intoning three phrases again and again as it goes.
"Nunc..sentio me damnatum esse. Sit novus dominus bonus illis sub eo..ave dominum verum, censeo.
Nunc..exeam."
(OOC: good luck to you, guys, AND, for the plebs who don't speak latine:"Now, I feel that I'm damned. Let the new lord be good (you might say generous/fruitful) to those under him, hail the true lord..I suppose.
Now...let me go away (indicating departure/relief/dissolution of responsibility)."
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I hold no ill will against the **** you did to me back in 2.0 as LaTerre, and I respect your growth and maturity. You are a fine fit for the GM team, I wish you all the best.
+1
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Below the notices are an addendum, newly penned.
"There'll be free ale after the meeting for all attendees."
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Throughout the dwarven capital are notices written with the seal of Da Kirkja Dverga.
"In the name of the Brathmordakin, the most beneficent, kind, and supreme.
In the name of Urugan, the all-father and our progenitor.
Thus have these words been penned, in aversion to Khorvad and with respect to Dorrmar.
Faithful of the city, hear the good word of Yemekar. Our faith has fallen into disuse and misrepair.
The faithful find refuge in a place tearing at the seams, unfit to repel the heresies which plague our world.
Only in a perfect and genuine unity can the faithful defeat such sin and godlessness.
It is thus written that in several stone days(May the Seventh at 5:00 PM EST), a convocation of the faithful shall be held.
This meeting will be open to all, but is intended only for those who hold a true faith in the Brathmordokin.
It will begin with a devotional to the Brathmordakin and be composed of a discussion on the state of the faith.
In the name of the Brathmordakin, the most beneficent, kind, and supreme.
In the name of Urugan, the all-father and our progenitor.
Thus have these words been penned, in aversion to Khorvad and with respect to Dorrmar."
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Not really self taught, this person was/is part of the monks.
I was an Elder Monk at that time.
I can confirm his authenticity.
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Been Here Since the Server Opened, AMA
in Ask Me Anything
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Toxicity is relative, I’d say. I’ve not been part of the community for many years, so it's hard for me to gauge a thing like that. That said, this server used to have some really loony people that, thankfully, are mostly gone--which, strikes me, can only represent an improvement. The zero tolerance policy for hacking in 2.0 was nutty. ?
I applied in 2011 as an elf, and--for the most part--played elves until I left. My main, however, was a Dread Knight for the last 2-3 years I was an active member of the community.
Yes, but not as a way to test the quality of their RP. It can be a good indicator of their age, their intellectual maturity, and their ability to write with at-least some dynamism. I was on the AT for a couple of years, definitely appreciated that part of the app.
Sagwort.
I was on the AT--not sure how that role has changed since I left.
Shiftnative. Really cool dude. Managed the server really well.
I don’t really know the different types, since they weren't things when I started playing here. I only encountered them on and off when they were introduced, since I never really played mages. That said--Monk Magic and Dread Knight blood runesmithing would be my top two magics.
Honestly? I can’t remember any, it’s been waaaaaay too long.
The Vaquixine thing, right around 1.0-2.0.
Little bit of column A, little bit of column B. LoTC took up too much time and required way too much investment--intellectual, and emotional. It also gave me a place to explore my nascent interest in religion, creative writing, and public speaking (even if it was more ‘internet speaking’)!
LoTC has always had people who spend almost every waking hour in its skeevy clutches (the harm). It’s also always had pockets of genuine community where people could come together and mess around (the benefit).
Hope that answers your questions well enough!