A Spooky Witch

This is so loaded with emotion I don't even know where to begin with my response to this. I'm ashamed to say how ignorant I was of how this kind of culture was happening on the server. You can say I was living under a rock, or just that I've been so focused on the surface of the server that I am quite literally blind to everything else. This genuinely makes me so happy that I'm not part of any staff teams to deal with this fuckery. That being said, I'm so happy and honestly, pretty emotional, that this is being talked about and being advocated for in such a direct way now knowing how much it hasn't been. I started playing on this server since before I graduated high school, and I cannot imagine being in the position of some young boy or girl coming on here and being accosted by people who are supposed to help build up and sustain a community. I know what it's like to be in a position of little power, and it's scary and it LIVES with you long into your life. There were traumas in my life, predatory in nature, that I experienced as a child, and I was lucky enough to have adults to go to to help me get through it. It's still hard, it's still a scar, but it's manageable. It hurts so much to tears to know that there are people children who are going or went through the exact same thing, and very literally have few to no people to turn to. No adults to step in and give them a hug and say that everything is going to be okay, no one to just enter in a simple command to remove this person from the platform and take just one ounce of worry away. At the end of the day, this is a simple website, run by simple civilians who can gate-keep the community (in the good way, not the dickish way) to keep kids safe. I'm an adult playing on a minecraft role playing server, and as an adult I'd like to say that this really is that simple. The people who run this are not the FBI, they're not law enforcement. Taking action to protect your community isn't acting in accordance to the law. They don't have to be the law to ban someone from playing on this server or visiting this website! If anything warrants sending information to proper authorities, then maybe there should be some kind of task team to get information from the person making the complaint, and giving them proper contact information to local authorities to help. It's all just a click away and a short google search to find phone numbers and tip-lines. They just have to be the adults protecting the children who come on here from predators who would take advantage of them! Take the law out of the equation for just a moment, and just ban. JUST. BAN.

I feel like this is how it'll go with somewhat inaccurate firearms.

Definitely not... While I agree that tech advances would be interesting, it just really doesn't fit LOTC as a whole. And to further that, if they're going to be as effective as a bow or a crossbow what's the friggen point of even having a gun put in? This has also been discussed before, at least twice since I've joined the server. Isn't this just beating a dead horse at this point?

((MC name: EmilyBlackheart )) Name: Poppy Aeth'ahern Vote: Lanavia Iyathir

If you read the Funny moments, many of those were extremely embarrassing.

After years of hearing naught from her adoptive father, Poppy heard the whispers of those she knew who dwelled in the dark along side him. He was gone. Her footsteps paused and she just stared at the ground beneath her feet, trying to comprehend the loss of another dear to her, yet none so dear as Pherak. He who had taken her in when she was small and raised her as his own. Slowly her eyes brimmed with tears, only to ascend her face as she continued to walk. After walking for a time to nowhere in particular, she sat down and just drew as she had always done; though this time it was in memory of her departed father. The picture would be of Pherak and Poppy and Lilith, in his hand was a dancing rat like the one he made dance for her so long ago. "I'll always love you, papa."

Poppy will kinda miss you, if she notices :]] Buh bai frand!

I read it, twice, and it's very confusing. He is right however, a plague spreading through mosquitoes isn't really a thing as they don't really cross contaminate blood. It isn't an easy thing in nature for mosquitoes to spread a plague that isn't a parasite (I.e other diseases that are more commonly spread by insects such as mosquitoes). The arrows would make sense if he just bled himself out and collected his own diseased blood in a jar instead of using mosquitoes, or even if he used the rat that you mentioned to spread the plague. The mosquitoes just make it more confusing and a little less... believable.

Question... Where did the plague even come from? Mosquitoes don't carry plague and if they do you might want to specify that. Or did the homeless beggar have it? There are a few things you may want to clarify in this.

Poppy halted her strolling in Haelun'or and peered at the notice that other Mali were crowded around and chattering about. After some had cleared away enough for her to read, Poppy's eyes scanned it thoughtfully and a curiosity burned in her to know more. Being younger, she didn't know much of the Aheral of old. She looked around and decided against leaving any reply for fear she may be punished for such. "I hope you come around more mystery person." She murmured to herself. "I'd love to know what my haelun's time was like.." And with that, she turned to head home.

Whelp I've updated my good ole' character Poppy's story much more than the last time I did a thread like this. This is a looooong one, so if you're not in for a read well, sucks. Anywho, I'm quite proud with how this turned out, I hope you guys enjoy. Also if ANYONE was part of any of these events and thinks an addition needs to be made, please screenshot it and let me know! @~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@