excited

Paul is displeased.

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“Pshh, Raev is why, Ruska is why!” Boomed Ivanovich, slamming his hand down on the table. His might brought many to attention as he declared, “Where might makes right, the weak should fear the strong. Raevir blood is Carrion blood, blood of conquerors, of the slayers of fools and beasts. Raevir and Ruskans are Adrians, all else are simply their subjects.” Barbanov smirked somewhat, his eyes narrowed upon Ivanovich. Quickly, the tone of the room grew more hostile, Illatians, farfolk, and Auvergne now causing a ruckus.

Valē,

Ivan the Outlaw

St. Arpad 'The Dancing Bear' Carrion

Sir Konyves Ivanovich

Sir Dmitri 'Dima' Ivanovich

Baron Andrezj 'The Black' Ivanovich

The House of Emperors' Bane.

 

Nero von Draco adds more locks to his private kennel as to protect his loyal entourage of Renatian pit-fighting dogs: Caligula, Donald, Nero Jr. and Aurelius. He mourns the Prince Hadrian van Aert's loyal companion, contemplating new punishments and tortures in store for those who are responsible. 

Nero von Draco sallies to the defense of his brothers in Acre. "Sic semper tyrannis!" 

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Your favorite character? Your biggest roleplay regret? Your unresolved childhood trauma??? Anything that comes to mind you

1. Malus. He is the most nuanced character I've played because I gave him a very complex ideology and beliefs. 

2. My biggest regret is warclaiming LionBileti's Norland after he spared my life IRP. 

3. therapy

MC Name:

         Excitedly

Character's Name:

         Malus

Character's Age:

         80-something

What feat(s) will you be learning?

         Alchemy - OOC Oversight

Teacher's MC Name:

         7ixy

Teacher's RP Name:

         Avrelivs de Wees

Do you agree to keep Story updated on the status of your feat app?:

         Yes

Have you applied for this feat on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app:

         No

Are you aware that if this feat is undergoing an activity trial and fails said trial, that you will lose the feat? And that if it is apart of the Lore Games, it might drastically change soon?:

         Yes

Malus readies himself to menace the many nations of Almaris with his keen harmonica. Panic.

MC Name:

         Excitedly

Character's Name:

         Malus

Character's Age:

         80

What feat(s) will you be learning?

         Housemagery

Teacher's MC Name:

         [Self-Teach Book]

Teacher's RP Name:

         Housemagery - by Celia Vallei'ibar

Do you agree to keep Story updated on the status of your feat app?:

         Yes

Have you applied for this feat on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app:

         No

Are you aware that if this feat is undergoing an activity trial and fails said trial, that you will lose the feat? And that if it is apart of the Lore Games, it might drastically change soon?:

         Yes

MC Name:

         Excitedly

Character's Name:

         Malus

Character's Age:

         80

Character's Race:

         Dark Elf

What magic(s) will you be learning?

         Bardmancy (All Four Aesthetics)

Teacher's MC Name:

         [Self-Teaching Book]

Teacher's RP Name:

         The Depths of Magical Artistry - Inny Yuln'aher

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it:

         N/A

Do you agree to keep Story updated on the status of your magic app?:

         Yes

Are you aware that if this magic is shelved, that you may no longer use it in character?

         Yes

2 minutes ago, JoshBright said:

Jarad would receive the missive well in a meeting with Malus (@Stephen Pertinax Horen, The Outlaw King) desucing their rather large building project, taking his eyes off the diagrams Infront of him, read the missive over a little more but not fully before turning back to Malus "So how long till it take for construction to be completed? I know construction started little over a year ago and i hate to rush it but my hands are being forced to have it done before years end." He said with both a rather sad and annoyed tone before reading the missive over now fully, a small smile dawning his face "Guess im a margrave now as well" he said in a more happier tone

Speaker of Dark Hollow, Malus, uttered the following words in support of his cultural ally Jarad.

"You know things go. There are many invisible concerns. Among them, whoever might be hassling you. If only they spent as much time they spend tying your hands to tie their own shoes, maybe then they wouldn't haphazardly trip over their own words."

"Barony of Cherskavy, and respectively Elector of Ivanovich"

"Andrezvich," uttered Pavel Ivanovich. "Nobody has involved myself or my family, yet."

Malus Corin simply uttered to the Druid Ainmhí within the cave dwellings of Dark Hollow, "Those who coyly rip down the posters are but reenacting the trivial behavior of their Irrinite and Aegrothondi forefathers. Perhaps, these slaves to the yoke of their intrepid leader's plow ought to be as bashful to you as they would be to their own chieftains, lest they seek instead to once longer find themselves supplanted, their lands stolen, fertile and lush lands razed and salted as done by the great kings of old.

"This would not be the first time, in their hubris, that they have shunned and killed other elves under the mere pretense of 'bad affiliation'. Trivial, really."

Pavel the Skinless, once a proud and loyal captain of Oren, and now a waylaid mercenary spoke thusly to his comrades within the demesne of the Corsairs in Yong Ping.

"No Wigs."

IGN: Excitedly
Category: Creative Writing
Artwork: 

Antonious Patracolus Derfey is unsurprised.

What's your favorite niche of RP?
I enjoy small plot lines and world building primarily. Namely, the affects that actions have, and the butterfly effect.

Who is someone you admire or look up to on LOTC, whether or not they play anymore?

@Langobardi

In 2011, Gaiusmarius8 was frequently releasing storied histories about the Teutonic Order, and it is from some of his RP that some of the most consequential events in Human History have ever happened on this server. The interesting part? Gaius is overwhelmingly an individual without scandal. The Moderation Team certainly hated him at the time, and acted to vilify and subvert him; but I remember witnessing his forum posts when I was twelve or thirteen, and it helped shape my own style of writing quite a bit. Namely, taking inspiration from real world history to devise settings. The history of the Teutonic Order for instance has some of the best writing on the server. So does his thread he wrote about the era before, during and after the Duke's War, The Wayfarer's Odyssey. He involved me in many of these events when I was a hamfisted and frankly stupid Elven noob. This allowed me to learn how to write and create projects of my own. I learned a lot of grammar, creativity, etc.

What's your most memorable RP encounter?

Once, some elven woman held up something that "looked like a pencil". I guessed it was a blow dart so I lifted up my shield. They accused me of meta-gaming. So I asked them how would I meta-game? Did I read your mind? They shut up.

What's your favorite place to RP at?

DnD.

Why do you enjoy the current community you play in?

Oren is led by people who have role-play in mind first, and world building second. It has allowed people to really occupy nice builds as well as having significant social mobility. The people talk, game together, and there's very little bickering.

How has LOTC grown and developed since you first started playing?

• Emphasis on settlement-driven RP, rather than spontaneous RP.
• The server used to be very tight-knit and people would interact with many communities on one character. Now, many people play four, five, or six characters. Nobody actually invests time into a single character: they grind different things like bounties in Destiny 2, picking up new stuff and never really fleshing out their character or adding dimension to their setting they play in.
• The amount of nations is insane. There used to be four nations: Malinor, Krugmar, Oren and Urguan. Now there's so many settlements where people have to stay to boost activity percentages. This has really killed the diversity you used to experience. There used to be a clear distinction between say, a Dwarf or Elf player, and now they all play in one another's groups to progress their own political agendas.
• Character driven RP is less frequent, now all RP progresses the "state" (factions). Before, only a few niche groups acted this way (the Flays, Pugsy's bandits, etc).
• PvP used to be the name of the game. It was encouraged that if people knew they'd not get along, they'd PvP something out and just get it over with. Now, there is little PvP except weird laggy skirms. PvP, once upon a time, was fun even for role-players because the skill cap wasn't insane - now there are "career PvPers" whose only value is that they sweat a dead game.
• People used to teach and engage with noobs. Now, noobs are swung into some state military, and then conditioned to f**k with and hate other groups.

Why do you play LOTC?

I enjoy criticizing bad behavior, as well as engaging with a few of my friends on here that I deeply care for. A lot of my fun on LoTC comes from helping my friends. I do not play actively, and when I do it is mainly to support people I am close to. The ship has sailed for me playing any type of "serious" character archetype, I just enjoy satire.

Exalted Derfey's proclivities for the evening include shaving, before he contemplates the ethics of slitting Haeseni throats with his razor blade. A man of God, he flagellates himself, for the Haeseni are no different than himself - waylaid humans, stripped of freedom by calls to war. He grabs a sign and begins to protest outside the Vienne Capitol Building.

"No more! So says Derfey."

"War is bad! So says Derfey."

"True Canonists will not attack us! The Haeseni will not attack us!"

"So preaches Derfey..."

Derfey, grass roots legislator, is proud of the work being done by his Barcloid allies.

"The best people, I'll tell you." He combed his orange receding hairline back, his wide gums visible beneath his obscene lips, a narrow veneer of flesh that hardly obscured his glinting, grinning yellowed teeth. "Love to have them in Oren, I do. Emperor Phil would be the proudest, the proudest I tell ya."

Pavel enunciated the following despite his thick Raevir accent, "Yam would be pleased to be Excommunicated if this truly was the case. No true churchman would sell out to the Dragonkin. The Mother Church has soiled itself by ruinously involving itself in political affairs."

North "Atlantic" Derfey, famed cartographer, is puzzled.

"Urguan and Balian are literally located in the South."

On 6/28/2022 at 9:42 AM, Zarsies said:

 

Empathy, maturity, independence, patience, humility, etc. Nothing special.

 

CBT (cognitive behavior therapy) and a moderate amount of psychedelics. It's too large a subject to succinctly broach here but TL;DR determine what you genuinely care about - usually people or internal values - and let the rest fall away. Not everything is serious; in fact very little is. Once you lose perpetual tension life is easier. Also helps to get evaluated for any neurodivergent qualities you might have and seek treatment if you haven't before.

 

See above. I gutted all need for validation when I came to terms with nihilism; no one and nothing matters, enjoy yourself. Seek therapy if needed.

 

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1922. It's so old it's in the public domain and you can find free narrations of it.

 

 

Least played: dwarf and orc (2). Most played: human and elf (each 3). Longest played in terms of IRL time is probably elf, my first 2 main characters were dark elves.

 

N/A. Culture is a joke on the races as a whole, it's only of any depth in specific pockets but even then I'm neutral on almost all. Best specific culture imo were the Velians.

 

Implying I even like my own consistently Q_Q Probably simonbane but they haven't been around since ~2014 so... idk.

 

I don't play any aesthetic because every character evolves from one to another until they die in one unless you consider mentally ill an aesthetic. But who isn't ill in some manner and what fun would a world of benign 'normal' people be? As for starting over it's hard to say, my path was foundational and taught me a lot via mistake and looking back on it all I want to shrivel up and die but it was necessary to become who I am today. I'd probably axe most of Sprat, redact Uldrivt's origin, kill off Carmanin instead of letting her fade, and spend less time at my computer in general. I used LotC as an escape and at times I should have challenged myself more instead of hiding from the world in fantasyland. I'd also play a halfling main but avoid the anal hugbox crowd.

 

Just a hobby that I'm hot and cold on at times. Sometimes - more often than it should be - it's daunting and acutely stressful so I don't even attempt to engage. I've been more absent in-game 2018 to now compared to 2013 to 2017 accounting for school and unhealthy devotion. My dissatisfaction with my own roleplay, the roleplay of others, and other people's typing speed / inability to resolve interactions in a timely manner eats at me and makes me hesitant dive in. The best way I've learned to mitigate this stress and try to enjoy RP has been curating my company and spending less time in public areas which slowly became none. That led to feeling trapped in a sense that my characters have a very short list of immediate contacts and outside them they are isolated which translates to me not staying online. Not great, and I've learned there's a balance in curating who I interact with and spending time encountering strangers but since I've been away so much I've yet to start that initiative. Hopefully I will soon.

 

My thoughts are shallow because our encounters have been fleeting but they amount to me thinking you're an excited, appropriately immature dude on a path to success.

 

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones, 2004. It's proven invaluable for establishing realism as a I prep for my next D&D campaign.

 

 

You're a real one, my dude.

that's not true because you're friends with me

caught lacking, zarsies

me and nectorist and charlemagne would be happy to attend your podcast

Derfey scratches out 'Heard' on one pamphlet and corrects it to 'HERD' in bold, before dusting off his hands and wandering away.