Archipelego

mwah xoxo love you bestie

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII BESTIE Not sure honestly. I don't remember a whole lot beyond shitting on just about every decision the admins ever made. Which, admittedly, was REALLY fun to do as a group. Currently? I got on briefly and spent some time in Caurost. It doesn't have much competition because I don't know how the other cities are doing, but it was pretty fun. Lots of activity

HIIIII BESTIEEEE hope you are well. yeah we should talk more often. sometimes im bad at keeping in contact looking for a job currently, which is scary but i know ill find something. graduated just a few months ago. in terms of passion projects, im working on a novel project im very excited about and i have a few other side things including some short stories and a blog where i post chapters for a side project my desire for lotc would be to strip away a large majority of remaining "gamey" elements. i think lotc is at its best as, essentially, a platform for digital LARPing. it is an extension of forum and chat room roleplay, not an MMO, and treating server elements like an MMO (and the daily trappings that encourage people to get on like nation activity and daily voting) only encourages people to spend too much time on the server, invest too much of their personal sense of worth into it, and it results in more toxicity with less roleplay. (also make druidism freeform again. RETVRN. RETVRN (its ok ive accepted this will never happen)) i joined in vailor and i have some pretty good memories of it. but it was axios when i actually figured out what i was doing and started making friends on the server. it was the first time i was old enough to meaningfully engage with others and pursue things that interested me. it was that "click" moment for me where the server made sense, and there was a lot of opportunity i was eager to capitalize on. as time marches on, that desire goes away, and the server became a chore to me. each progressive map after axios was worse in that regard, but i think of axios as the last time my enjoyment of the server was untainted and non-jaded also yeah man i would be delighted to help with any video lore projects you have going on. i think thats a great idea and its something i thought about doing myself back when i had the motivation to engage with the server. there's a lot to love about lotc and the video format is a good way to get it out there for anyone who wants to create narrative art, regardless of format (prose, video, whatever): there's really no magic advice for something like "writing a novel" or "writing a lore piece" or anything of the sort. you need to make the leap to just start creating something. literally anything. it will probably be dogshit but that is okay. you will probably have fun making it, and the only real wisdom/experience you can GET in a creative art like writing is just practice. as much as it might be tempting to look up like "how did george r r martin write ASOIF" 90% of what you learn from that is going to be useless. the truth is that creating art is a deeply personal pursuit and the exact way you end up plotting, formatting, and executing your work is a process you need to determine for yourself. that said, looking up how other people do things can be useful in terms of gathering ideas on how YOU can do it yourself, and what elements appeal to you. kissy kissy xoxo

Dude it's so good to hear from you. I'm surprised you even saw this. You're responsible for no shortage of my good memories of Lotc and you were, when I was younger, a good role model for the "halfling druid" archetype that helped me to be a better roleplayer and a better person. I hope you're doing well and it would be delightful to hear from you on discord. Since they got rid of discord tags I'm just "archipelego" now. Hit me up brother

thanks big dog

I think the druidism rewrite is pretty good given the limitations that were imposed on the community. Of course I miss before the Lore Games because being an experienced practitioner of a basically freeform magic was awesome. But I think the community did a pretty good job with the rewrite. When I think about things I miss about druidism, I am sort of sad that the Order has mostly disappeared. For the majority of my time on the server, druids had a significant enough presence to represent their own nation. I don't know much about how they do these things days, but I find it sort of sad that a lot of the traditions and community structure I helped reinforce aren't so widely used by modern druids

sure bubby. once i actually read the new sorvian lore (which i will probably never get around to doing) Well, as you know, its mostly gay people. Also people who are no longer particularly active. LotC is such a time sink that its hard, at least in my experience, for a friend group to play LotC without being dominated by it. My immediate ex-LotCer friend group is mostly people who have no further interest in the server, which is sort of like an AA meeting for Minecraft addiction Love you Zarsies xoxo It is actually shade rewrite 5 slots 2 abilities

Oh hey I dragged you to the clinic today. Whats up man I graduated college a few months ago and I'm currently looking to start an actual career. Which is weird, and difficult to fathom, but I'll get there. Otherwise, I'm writing a novel, publishing short stories, and posting chapters for a side project onto a Tumblr blog. LotC is responsible for a lot of my love of writing but I'm happy to say I didn't stop once I went inactive. https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/aislings-bargain-part-1/ <--Short story https://www.tumblr.com/thedoorofheaven/774701809694539776/summary-links?source=share <-- Side project Thanks for asking bestie

Druidism used to not really have much written lore, so you could get away with a lot more. Like, there were no defined "spells" in the pre Lore Games era. So I think fondly of some pretty nuts CRP encounters defending the grove against the same like 3 Darkstalkers over and over. Eventually got to be friends with most of them so the combat was always friendly and almost cooperative OOCly rather than combative like how it is sometimes. I think of those encounters fondly because, to me, it represented the best of the cooperative storytelling LotC has to offer. Writing lore is awesome and you should do it. But try not to put your entire self worth into it. I used to get a ton of dopamine from writing lore and getting it accepted, but it meant I didn't really know how to handle when a piece I really loved got denied. Eventually, as my creative inclinations drifted away from the server, I realized that as much as writing for LotC was a useful exercise, it is also important to write other things.

I FORGOR IM SO SORRY

hi big dog good to hear from you. i dont really upload anymore but i like that i could go back to it at any time if i wanted. cool passion project. i mainly write these days. ive got a short story published and ive got a tumblr blog where i post novel chapters for one of my side projects

I'm only in my early 20s I just joined the server way younger than I had any business doing. Worst decision of my life (though I made some good friends). And there are enough young people on here that maybe early 20s does seem pretty old to some people (namely, me when I started playing). Mainly? My back hurts. Also 90% of all my friends no longer play so its pretty easy for me to forget about the server these days for 6 month intervals at least. Nice to meet you and I hope you're enjoying the server more than I'm capable of doing these days

Jimmy Johns #7 Spicy East Coast Italian. I would kill someone for one right now actually

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i think i was flamboyant's sacrificial lamb when it came to publishing projects he knew would be unpopular. i had fun at the time though, not that i really had much creative control over what the projects contained. i do maintain the techlock is a good idea even if it wasn't executed exactly how i'd do it now probably erick the halfling paladin. it was cool to do something so unique and specifically challenging. though hanging out with your characters as both kasfer and grey was pretty awesome