SoulReapingWolf

Best lore I haven't read in ages!

Honestly hands down some of the best lore I've read on the server. I hope I can one day write stuff as cool as this.

Hey guys, its me Soul breaking my silence on the subject. I haven't been able to reply much cuz I'm on a place with a funky internet connection. But there is something I wanted to say before I go back to my internetless break. I wish to publicly thank some of the members of the team that have made it possible to keep running for as long as it did. For their hard work & long service, for believing that LoTC could become a world that felt alive, with systems that allowed players to interact with it and immerse themselves into a fantasy world like no other. I invite every player to join me in thanking the following members of the team, who’ve dedicated a lot of effort and time to try and make things better for everyone on the server. @WestCarolina: Before I thank you I’d like to apologize, I thought together we’d be able to get the team on its feet but I was wrong. I feel like I’ve indirectly caused you several nights of no sleep as well as several days filled with stress as well as one or two admins yelling at you for my mistakes. For anyone who’s been living under a rock Carol has been the main force behind the World Team for the last few months, working tirelessly to try and bring a better experience for players in LoTC. Trying to motivate the team to build epic event sites, organizing different team projects, restructuring the team, coming up with some very cool initiatives, there are several things I could add to this list but this update would end up being posted in May instead of April as it's meant to be. I’m grateful you were always there to stand by my side when we had to make tough decisions together. I know that wherever you are going they would be lucky to have you working by their side and I can only hope I’m fortunate enough to be there working with you. @Hiebe: Hiebe has dedicated over 10 years of his life to LoTC; he might've started as a young man with a passion for RP and the drive to begin one of the first dwarven clans, however since the very beginning Hiebe showed an interest in implementing systems surrounding building & the economy. At first he did this as a player however, it didn’t take long for him to get interested in wanting to do much more for the server that he loved & enjoyed. He might have started as a forum moderator and a GM in 2011 but it's no secret that Hiebe has been working as a builder & as a map designer for the team for a long time. His dedication to the server is always present, despite being tired and having IRL on the way Hiebe stayed in World Team for the last year to train me & teach me the ropes, pass down to me anything I’d need to become his successor as the grumbling madman obsessed with economy systems. I am genuinely grateful I got the opportunity to work under you and later by your side. Thank you for trusting me to become a manager for the World Team. You deserve a break from the server after almost 11 years of working you ass off to make it more enjoyable. Ps. Your 120k yearly mina pension will be stored in a trust fund that baby Urguan will be able to access once he comes to claim his place as rightful ruler of the dwarves of Urguan. @Zindran: Zindran spent the better part of his tenure as a manager trying to fix and standardize a lot of systems surrounding activity, settlements & lairs. His drive was amazing and he was dedicated, some of the contributions he made to the team will help LoTC for years to come. He also managed to find the easiest ways to teach me how to do stuff so that’s always a big +1 in my eyes. @Disheartened: Alicia joined the team with a lot of great ideas and projects in mind, she played a crucial role in bringing a semblance of authority and independence to management from administration, allowing us to cut down wait times on processes like paste ins and map art. She demonstrated patience like no other and helped the team go through a very tough spot. We are genuinely thankful for her time as World Time Secretary and later as World Team Manager. It's a shame a lot of the projects & proposals you had didn’t get to happen, I hope with this new path staff is taking we can take back some of those initiatives. I apologize for all the stress you might’ve had while waiting on things to happen on the team. It's something I don’t wish on anyone. @Minth_11: I’m sure it doesn’t surprise anyone that Minth is mentioned in this list. Over the last year Minth has worked tirelessly to become a key player of the team. His desire to learn and understand every single bit of what the team did, his energy and patience and how he made himself approachable to anyone with a question or with need of help. Minth @z3m0s: While acting mainly behind the scenes, z3m0s played a crucial role in the development of many projects you see in the post above. The forever raging Australian Archmage would always be there, open to everything I had doubts on ranging from giving me feedback and pointing out anything he felt was not good for the server’s future or teaching me how to use some obscure set of commands that only someone with his experience & trajectory on the server would remember. You’d often find him playing with the systems and testing out any new proposals, being both fair & critical when time came to give his opinion. @BathRugMan & @Gamma: A build machine and the perfect team. If you were fortunate enough to barge into a VC while these 2 mad builders were working together you’d find yourself listening to them argue for hours, Gamma questioning an idea only Bathrug could possibly come up with and somehow together they’d manage to pull it off. After some sleepless nights and a lot of hard work Bathrug and Gamma have provided some epic builds, event sites, assets to the server. Trusted members of the team capable of pulling off what many would consider impossible. The Economy Team (aka Greedy dwarves): A group filled with greedy dwarven players with a passion for slapping their own bellies & driving Joel mad with suggestions only a dwarf could ever come up with & people genuinely interested in the server’s economy. I think that’s enough reason to thank the people there. The World Team as a whole: Thank you for all the hard work & dedication. For giving up your time, with the intention of making the server a better place. Sorry for all the pings & the amount of times we bugged you about following proper procedure. We hope whatever comes next for you is good. Sorry for not being able to do more for the team. Final words Finally, thanks to all the players who were patient and didn't blindly hated on us despite having to wait for some of their requests to get handled.

Format: Skin Number: 4 Bidders MC name: SoulReapingWolf Bidders Discord: Soul#9694 Bid: 200

The official chef of clan Eirikson approves the declaration of his chieftain as he prepares his signature spaghetti taco.

Looking for the Roots The Search for the Aureons [!] A Red-Tailed Hawk would deliver scrolls containing the following information to the Aureons living in the woodlands around the realm “Brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of the Ikurnamon, I seek your wisdom. I wish to know more about my roots. I carry the name and blood of my father but I know not of what it means to be an Aureon. I wish to bring honor to our seed and respect the traditions of our forefathers. If you are out there I wish to invite you to the Vale of Nevaehlen. I wish to present you with the opportunity of setting down roots, bringing our seed to a new home, a home where we will grow strong. As strong as the Ironwood whose secrets were mastered by our ancestors. It would be my honor to learn The Way of a true Aureon. I pray to Cernunnos this message will find you and bring you to our new home. -Thordir Aureon” OOC:

Howdy, evil WT manager here. Overall you raise some valid points in your feedback post but some of them I won't be able to address until an update for what World Team has been doing in the last few... years I guess. I will make sure I go over every section of the post and if I can address it I will do my best to answer those questions, if I can't I'll say so. Where is World Team? The team currently is in bad shape, despite all of the effort Carol & myself had put into it, it's no secret. What are we doing? We are preparing for a new chapter What's happening to Map Art? The process of getting map art into the server has been painful since it was first created by Basket, at first it required an entire group of staff that volunteered to act as reviewers for incoming map art, but it became tedious since it meant I had to bug admins or senior techs to upload files into the server. However after much time complaining and asking for another way to get World team a way to handle both Map art & pastes we were able to get a tool that allows us to upload files into the server. This tool however is only accessible by Admins, Senior Techs, Carol & myself. The software to produce said map art is a bit janky, uploading files into the server is also not something you do lightly, for this reason I took the responsability of handling these types of requests mostly on my own, to make sure any file I was uploading was 'safe'. Before winter break (christmass or whatever you want to call it) I was handling all requests in a weekly basis, waiting a week to get all the requests possible before giving people their map art (usually on sundays) Ok thats cool & all Soul but why do we not have map art now? Recently however we were asked to put a temporary stop to this service, it will be handled through a different process. What about Soulstone Pillars? Honestly, I feel like this one is on players. Soulstone pillars (unless of the emerald variation) are 100% able to be handled by players on their own. There is a shop that sells Soulweaving Tomes on Cloud Temple, you can make 3 redstone blocks put them one on top of each other and run the following instructions. Run the following command while holding the soulweaving tome & looking at the redstone pillar. /ss imbue (insert name for pillar here) If you wish to add more slots to another pillar you simply purchase a new soulweaving tome (different to the one you've already used) and run the following command while holding the soulweaving tome & looking at the redstone pillar.* /ss study *I believe you must be the pillar owner to do this but I might be misremembering. If you wish I can write down a simple guide on Soulstone Pillars and post it on the forums. Region Greetings, allowed or not allowed? I'll talk a bit more about this in the coming update but the short answer is that they are not allowed. Why are they not allowed if some people have them? Policies in World Team have been very 'in the air', initially there was nothing set in stone regarding region greetins so a few of us did them for different places. In the last six or so months admins told us they'd prefer if we kept those things to more special locations. This is why they are not used today outside of nation capitals, settlements or event sites. I honestly don't know what to tell you regarding this. World Team does roads when asked. I did one yesterday. If it's not something like connect Mother Circle with Fenn plz, I'm sure someone would be willing to handle it. I think we have not gotten a ticket regarding roads in months. What's wrong with pastes? The team has gotten a lot of flack for this, while some of it is understandable people like to complain way too much. A year ago pastes were few and far between, could take several months to get handled. Nowadays we have pastes that are handled in a period of time between hours and a week. The team gets fingers pointed at them and told they are at fault but the process of pasting in a build is not a process handled only by one person. If you want I'll tell you the steps. 1. Player makes Wreq requesting a paste. 2. World Team Member takes req, if player is offline they start to handle the ticket by telling player to PM them through discord. (Depending on how long player takes to approach WT it can affect the time it takes for a paste to be completed) 3. WT asks player for schem file, PRO or RO approval. (Again, if player doesn't have these the process takes longer.) 4. WT sends file to a specific channel in staff discord where Carol or myself upload the file to the server. (I try to check this channel every other day but sometimes I miss the notification) 5. WT checks the build for the price, gives the cost to the player and waits for player to say they are able to pay & that they can be around for the paste to happen. (Sometimes players take hours, days, weeks or months to get back to the WT handling their paste after hearing the price.)* 6. Build needs to get pasted in, but first WT must make sure there is nothing on the way, making a region that encompasses the area and evicting it to make sure people don't lose their pixels. *In this step a WT might notice that a build that's getting pasted is not really up to standard, or that it changes drastically the land around it or that it doesn't fit the terrain, making this process a lot longer. So I ask you. Why do pastes take time? My answer would be something along the lines of "Because it requires at least three players that might be anywhere in the world to interact. If everything goes well they will be able to do so in a matter of hours, if not then it could take months." I've been trying my best to handle pastes as fast as possible for people lately. Think I've managed to handle the lasts ones in under a week. This will be addressed in the update post. In a few words, if we are not getting back to you is because someone else is not getting back to us. It's impossible for us to sit there and give you all the answers because Carol & I do not have the authority or power to make certain calls. I understand the frustration its been one of my main qualms with Staff ever since I returned to LoTC. I even joined Community Team back then to become the bridge between staff and players, open a communication channel that would allow players to see things happening. However I soon realized that if staff doesn't tell things to players it's not because they want to keep stuff from them, most of the time it's because they don't know themselves. I can't say much regarding this final nail in the coffin, things will become clearer with time, I'm sorry I can't give any more details.

A proud mali warrior wonders if the Wild Chief is really surprised about something like this happening in the Silver City. He shrugs, not really the biggest fan of reading or politics before returning to his duties. Apparently there might be some white elves seeking asylum in his home if that was true, the spears would need to get sharpened for that would provide an opportunity for a nice hunt.

It was at that moment that a dwarf, lover of sweets & pastries, follower of the Sunlit Lord, felt hope, the flame in his heart burning once more. He looked around his kitchen, flour, jams, egg shells and all kinds of berries. Dunheim's kitchen was a mess. The dwarf turned towards the windows of the kitchen as the sun rose from the east, filling the Urguani mountains with light. "A better make sure Meester Clean loikes t'e next batc' o' pies..." he would clean the sweat from his forehead and go back to baking.

Lair application completed. It will be sorted according and a World Team member will contact you on it's status.

Magni would randomly find the ebonstone in the library at Sunbreak. Thinking it was a bit gloomy & dark he would try to draw a smiley dwarf face with his brand new crayons.

Hey there, thank you for submitting your lair application. We've began reviewing & voting your application. Be on the lookout for a friend request in discord from Soul#9694 -SoulReapingWolf, World Team Manager Settlement Team Lead

Lair application completed. It will be sorted according and a World Team member will contact you on it's status.

Lair application completed. It will be sorted according and a World Team member will contact you on it's status.

Interesting concept. Feel like metagaming might be a problem where people will actively avoid seals even if they have no clue how they work tho.

I'm disappointed I was expecting only Musin could use these.

Lair application completed. It will be sorted according and a World Team member will contact you on it's status.

Today is truly a sad day. I'm glad I was able to stand by your side in some of your projects and I know we might have different opinions from time to time but I truly believe you were the future of craftsmanship and core aspects of dwarven culture. Aside from that I hope we will stay in touch and game together. LoTC won't be the same without you. I just hope STs realize how their actions keep harming an entire playerbase and offer a hand to those interested in traveling down the path you've started. Stay Gold Dory boy

Magni Irongut uses his crayolas to draw Kjellos (on his signature red and white outfit for the holidays) over the missive he recieved before sending it back to the sender.

Changed Status to Accepted

Hi there, as you can see, you have been accepted onto the server! Well done on your application, you’re doing great! So now, I welcome you to the wonderful community of LotC! However I wish to talk with you about certain aspects of your application. Other than that you are ready to get started, I suggest doing; /creq Can I have a CT Monk to help me get started? Here are some links you may find useful while starting out!: NORLAND GUIDE LINK - Because your character is from Norland Settlement Guides Major Charters Need help? Feel free to contact me through the forums or through discord [ Soul#9694 ]. If you see me around ingame, you can also /message SoulReapingWolf to ask me things there. If I’m not around, you can also use the LotC Discord. I would also recommend that you have a look around the Wiki! If you need help ingame, you can do /creq to request help from a community team member! You can find the new player guide here. Have a great time roleplaying, and I look forward to seeing you around in future!

Hi there, as you can see your application has unfortunately been denied, check below for the detailed reasons why. You failed to make the corrections within the time given. Don’t worry though! If you want to submit a new serious application feel free to try again right after, just make sure you correct the things listed! Need help? Feel free to contact me through the forums or through discord [ Soul#9694 ]. If you see me around ingame, you can also /message SoulReapingWolf to ask me things there. If I’m not around, you can also use the LotC Discord. I would also recommend that you have a look around the Wiki!

Hi there, as you can see your application has unfortunately been denied, check below for the detailed reasons why. You failed to make the corrections within the time given. Don’t worry though! If you want to submit a new serious application feel free to try again right after, just make sure you correct the things listed! Need help? Feel free to contact me through the forums or through discord [ Soul#9694 ]. If you see me around ingame, you can also /message SoulReapingWolf to ask me things there. If I’m not around, you can also use the LotC Discord. I would also recommend that you have a look around the Wiki!

Hi there, as you can see your application has unfortunately been denied, check below for the detailed reasons why. You failed to make the corrections within the time given. Don’t worry though! If you want to submit a new serious application feel free to try again right after, just make sure you correct the things listed! Need help? Feel free to contact me through the forums or through discord [ Soul#9694 ]. If you see me around ingame, you can also /message SoulReapingWolf to ask me things there. If I’m not around, you can also use the LotC Discord. I would also recommend that you have a look around the Wiki!