ScreamingDingo

You have done irredeemable damage to victims you have basically implicated and hurt during your video. You have overstepped and endangered people, caused distressed and genuinely fucked over these victims in awareness. It disgusts me seeing you do this, spitting on everything you worked with and you were there with the discussions with the aformentioned cases. Did you drive and attempt to enforce these? No, you stood aside and did nothing. You say you fought so hard for this situation, but you have ended up gaslighting multiple people into thinking that the evil of this server lies with the administration, it lies with me. I really do hope that you step back from the server. You have no grasp of consequences for what you do on this server and how it actually affects people. You attack my personal character, you attack and attempted to diagnose me with mental issues over not wanting to ban someone without hard evidence for the cases of defamation and legal action. You have utilised a situation that should've been cleaned up, publicised it and made it a bonfire where people have genuinely been fucked over by this. You need to step back from this server entirely as you preached about for the entire tenure as admin, how you hated the server and how you would genuinely block votes on 'approvals' because I did not agree with you. You've done your damage, and now we have to clean up the oil spill that you've done that damages so many more in your blind crusade that has no consideration for anyone but yourself. Grow up, understand that things on this server revolve not around your ego. I'm fed up and frustrated, not because of the personal attacks on me. I am frustrated that this has made people on this server even more unsafe for certain members. I cannot forgive you for that. And I hope those that have been affected by this nonsense are able to recover and learn from this.

so you say you don't like me saying its virtue signalling, but then only 'expose' evidence because one of your friends got upset over me. good job

@Treshure So, this is a piece that has a fantastic message behind its intent, but I believe its the equivalent of setting a powder keg off to clean a small rock in the road. There’s definitely a very different philosophy we both took on the server in regards to administrative ideas and reports of safety/harassment etc. You have a very emotional, passionate response to every situation and I will be honest, I attempt to try and be as ‘forgiving’ as possible for the benefit of the doubt that people would not actually commit these heinous acts and ideas. I do not like placing the guilt on rumors, I do not want to ban off hearsay and what I believe is that the integrity of our safety system should take into account the victims and the repercussions that come from that. I will take responsibility for arguing against one of the main bans you speak about here, which was ‘romance rp’ between a 26 and 14 year old. This is the exact situation that forced you to quit, with a miasma of other issues that were happening. I cannot justify further as to why I held this belief, because I will be pointed as, as defending someone that you have publicly lambasted as a pedophile and groomer. This is one of the easily strongest and most difficult things to even respond against. I'm the red-tag who really has to take the burden and responsibility for ensuring people are kept safe and, that has not happened in the situation with the aforementioned player that all this discussion came from. The Vardak issue is a hilarious one, he was banned for 6 months and was unbanned by the administration itself at the time. If you’re going to drag situations beyond that, I would appreciate you getting your facts right with that, we were speaking about that and I was the one who originally did prompt discussions about the actual revisiting of these bans eventually, since most of these were reports from 6+ years ago that were unbanned during their administrative times. I believe that my approach is not perfect, it definitely contradicts many and does not adhere to the lynch mob mentality that follows this. But it is one of care, it is one of wanting to believe that people are genuinely, not disgraceful and horrible people. I want the victims to not feel scared, I want the victims to not feel afraid of speaking to the administration but as we can stand, we cannot create that environment. For that, I must apologise as an administrator. I will take that burden that we did not act quickly enough, though the situations we have done and sorted, we have tried very much to do this and make this server a better place. I have spoken and handled numerous safety reports, which those in the community I am sure have interacted with in regards to that should know that I have the best intentions. Though, you attack mainly the integrity and beauty of roleplay through this, saying that it is inseparable no matter what, that there are no variances or changes between situations. This is something I will say as a long time roleplayer, that I believe is completely disingenuous and destroys the main ability and intent of the server. This is to roleplay a character, this is to not project your own feelings or situations to others but instead craft a narrative that benefits those you interact with in ways of complete depth. I want roleplay to be separated and believe it can be, but I also want to believe that malice is not behind every person’s words and intentions. Sometimes it is genuine stupidity, a lack of social skills or otherwise some poor wrong place at the wrong time accusation that ruins someone's identity online, which [does] extend past minecraft. Where people doxx, harass and target players that they dislike, there are always greater repercussions and consequences to actions. This is what people forget, this is what people mainly do not respect or care about. Everything that happens, everything that will happen has a consequence even if the intent was not there. This video itself could have genuinely placed some victims in danger if a single word was dropped, where the predator would double down to attack those they found were reported. This public blasting and lynching will do nothing for this community, except give a pat on the back to those that prodded the fire and make them feel like they’re better people. The weight of the words Grooming and Pedophile are things that genuinely, are not considered in great length on this server. They’re thrown around as buzzwords, and it does end up trivialising the entire situation of victims that face these issues. I want us to change in a culture to allow for the server to help recognise and then implement this into common community practice, instead of it being dangled as blackmail above the head of many. But, I do not want this issue to die down and be the latest drama post since Punisher or Valaryon. I will be speaking with the administration and looking to help implement some more measures to show the transparency of the safety report process, the ideas behind it and the amount of cases we do actually deal with. I will also discuss publicising and making our resources more available to the players, while also looking to potentially implement hotlines and services that players can access if they are feeling in danger from others. No one but those that were truly inside the administration know what happens, and considering the amount of reports you help, you pick the one we had issues on because we both brought arguments that could swing either way. We had a difference in opinion and the way we conducted ourselves, and what that led to was a persecution of my entire character for a disagreement, for something I believed shouldn’t be immediately shot. I, as I’ve said, am happy to take the blame if this is what will get the players to actually acknowledge the dangers in the server, instead of only using them when they become most convenient to them. I do not believe myself to defend pedophiles or have destroyed the integrity of the server, implied by other players and this video exactly. My DMs are open for any discussion, any talk or genuinely any disdain you have against me. If we can channel this anger into somewhere productive, maybe we can actually change the server instead of letting it fizzle out. I was planning on stepping down from the administration soon, so you will not have to deal with my “innocent before guilty” concept for much longer as an administration. The damage has been done with this post, but all I hope is to see something come good out of the aftermath. The biggest issue here is that you as an administrator was that you have turned into a victim blamer when you had the very same power to push these changes. I’ll even mention that you literally would not vote on a ToS approval of a dude who was banned 6 different times for ERP, because we could not agree on a situation. You are an extremely self-destructive individual who has actually endangered a lot of people with this idea and message of “awareness”. This entire situation sits extremely sour in my mouth, because most people know that KP wasn’t exposed for good will, he was exposed because it was an easy thing to get rid of him and get people to be claimed as emperor. [This is to not disregard the feelings of his victims, my DMs are open about anything with that]. I have spent my administration on the ground, helping with a large amount of safety reports and trying to keep people safe on this server, but you have spent the entire administration doing bar nothing but roleplaying on a special character I gave you and then started virtue signalling when you left because its easier to not take blame. You are not the shining beacon of hope and virtue you say to be, and it is downright disgusting that this issue has been projected to be forgotten by the playerbase because of its violent upheaval and damage that have happened in the aftermath. You do not understand the consequences of your actions, you never have and never will. I will lose no matter what stance I take, since I am the bad “redtag” who wanted to believe someone who was not malicious in intent. For all the victims that I have not helped as much as I could, I am sorry. I will do better, for those I have spoken to, I want you to know that I’ve tried my best to make things safer and better for the community as a whole. And anyone who actually knows my past on this server, should know what I used to do instead of being civil on the server. I’m not defending anyone who is guilty, I am simply frustrated that this issue is not the highlight of safety, it’s a lynch mob that will be forgotten. As a side note. Shout out to @D A N N Y and @Charbi specifically, these are absolutely headliner staff that have made their contributions to the community from this heinous event. They have been absolutely paramount and I hope to see them get more intertwined with the community to help protect it. With also the administration and the On Safety post, the administration mean to keep people safe. Please help us protect the community.

I am quite well aware of why you took this to camera, just simply was a thing I wanted to say before I drafted something officially.

I would've preferred you'd not use my name on this video and just referred to me as ScreamingDingo. @Treshure But, thank you for bringing this up. I'll have a proper discussion and deal with this in a day or two, on this post. Just need to formulate a response that is rational.

This Warclaim is invalid, the Ratiki Horde formerly led by Chulk have been rumored to have vanished from existence after the ending anomaly.

can i just make this the mandatory ferry animal

Administration doesn't work under leads and hasn't for a very long time, literally nothing that is 'part' of this somehow admin deadlock that's passed around idly. Hilariously, Telanir is probably one of the few people who do not deserve the constant barraging and scapegoating, what has he done? Dude sounds like a robot sometimes and that's his fatal flaw

What's a Varg? I've never seen a Varg before? What's a Varg? What's a Varg? Varg? Varg?

Genuinely, this is all really good feedback. I will personally say that I have dropped the ball and not done fantastically as an ST lead. It's very easy to see and look at the products that have been produced. Most eventlines, if they were done we're produced by big heavy hitter ETs and that was it. Random encounters are very hard to choreograph when, no-one is ever alone and when they are, they're normally afking in a room with another person. The story and history for this map I will take sole responsibility for, it is something I hope to have amended when I step down as admin and take on a more backfacing lore writing position to help collaborate and make something for people to run that will be engaging. There's a few really small cute eventlines happening atm, but it's hard to break away from any CRP based events when majority of them transform into it no matter what. It's always a hard thing to try and tackle every nation, every playerbase and person to have them engaged and involved in events. My own manpower of the ET is not as strong as it could be with the amount of people, so I do genuinely always ask for people to apply if they are interested. It's a constant need to have more creatives to eventually bolster big and small events, where the random encounters can be made aswell as the big ones. so this is a self depreciation post and an ask for help, if you're interested and want to see some change. If you apply now, you won't have to deal with me as a lead for very long and will get what you want.

only thing i gotta say without reading it thoroughly is that aeriel isnt the arch-aengul anymore.

Appreciate your drive for videos and the overall creativity that you possessed on the server. May you have good luck in your future endeavors

Moved to Denied Events.

It's Flat.

ST Announcement - Chi Shelving Hey everyone, From this post, Chi Manipulation and its related pieces have been shelved by the Story Team formally. This will mean that all TAs and MAs will be denied, with the other lores shelved to reflect this. This was found because of the constant re-attempts of the lore, the multiple failed re-injections with TAs and the overall necessity of this magic disappearing with the main race that were made to use it (Hou-Zi), being unavailable to create new ones. Thank you, ScreamingDingo and the Story Team.

the trick is you actually need to build tension so nasty it genuinely unnerves the players ooc to actually have any response irp, gotta do metagame fear techniques to get responses out that are realistic.

A simple figure in Du Loc hides within the rubble of the capital, the beastial shadow flies in the moon-light. Its' wings outstretched, akin to an accursed butterfly. He wraps himself in the charred blanket, attempting to warm himself from the elements as he rocks in place. The Moth Man is not dead, the Moth Man is not dead, the Moth Man is not dead.

Within the Hidden Oasis, missives and declarations bustle from various Bazaars and people who travel to the South. The city amongst the sand, the society of the Brotherhood of Brev festers within the sharp winds that bellow beyond the descendant’s reach. The rumors and talks about the culmination against the Azdrazi threat are made apparent by the alliances and declarations that spew forth from these nations. A single figure grunts as he walks through the Bazaar, reading over it as the foreign tongue of the former ‘Faizian caliphates merge with their own distinct dialect around them. The scents of fried lizard, spices and dirt intertwine with the fire that brews within the outskirts of the markets, from the metal refineries that spread themselves around. “For the Cloud-Splitter has caused us issues, they declare upon a threat much greater. They know not what they do, for what can protect them from divinity itself.” The small translated missive is scrunched in his hand, discarded as he walks deeper into the city.

This Lore has been Denied. Thank you for submitting this, though the team does not believe that a magic to justify screenshots and pictures is necessary for LotC. We believe people can do the painting magic without magic or having to learn it at all.