NotEvilAtAll

You're logging onto your favorite MMORPG server in Minecraft, the Lord of the Craft. You head over to your favorite mob grinding spot in the desert, only to notice that someone else is occupying it! Disheartened, you head over to your guild headquarters in Neo-Sutica, passing by the Adventurers Guild where the last of the Story Team members drown their sorrows with alcohol ever since all events were mechanized and automated away from them. You go to your Improved Blacksmithing Station, crafted from 12 blocks of solid carbarum, and use the last dribble of your Vortex energy to craft some fancy enhanced carbarum arrows with some harpy feathers, dragonwood sticks, battle-ready carbarum ingots, and the pixie dust your Guild members prepared earlier. You dip them in instant-death potion, a new item added in Vortex 23.0, hoping that it'll come in handy. You don your full set of mermaid leather archer armor, take out your blood maple bow, and head out. You find your enemy in the desert again. How dare they take away your favorite mob grinding spot! It was where you got your first persona to Vortex archery level 120, after all, and you won't give it up without a fight! You do a quick /realname to get their username and then /msg them the duel request. They accept the duel, and the two of you are automatically teleported to the battle arena underneath the map. You breathe in and out slowly, preparing your weapons as the PvP countdown hits zero... You fire your bow! The enhanced carbarum arrow wizzes through the air as fancy particle effects burst out of it like a rainbow. The carbarum arrowhead maximizes damage against armored opponents, the dragonwood shaft counters your foe's puny armor enchantments with its anti-magical properties, the harpy feather fletching lets you finish them off in the second shot with greater ease, leaving them no time to heal! Of course, the instant-death potion effect applied on these arrows is another way you will screw over this foul opponent of yours! Once hit with the arrow, they'll be taking poison and wither damage at the same time until they get a cleric class healer to cast the proper spell upon them! Combined with the high damage percentage bonuses of your bow and archer armor, there is nothing your opponent can do to stop you! They whip out a white-dyed shield, your arrow instantly bouncing off of it and heading back at you. A new message pops up in your chat: "HAHA, I have a reflection shield! Eat it, NERD!" The arrow hits your character in the face. You are instantly thrown 10 blocks backwards and 5 blocks in the air. Blinded, withered, poisoned, nauseated, on fire, and completely out of hunger shanks, you collapse against the side of the battle arena in shock. You had never prepared for this encounter before. You shake in anger, realizing that you forgot to cast the anti reflection spell before combat! You die, dropping all of your minas on the ground and losing 10 points of combat rating. You stare at your screen, the big "YOU DIED" staring right back at you. You exit to title screen, and play a different game.

Yes I do remember back in the good old medieval days when you'd shoot at the invading bandits with twinwood arrows using bluesteel arrowheads fletched in harpy feathers to maximize the damage and longevity of the slowness potion effect you've dipped onto them while providing an extra chance to kill them if they are already injured. Just a day's work in ye olden times!

I thought you were exaggerating but then I looked back at the update and saw the arrow damage percent increases, arrow effects, fletching bonus, etc. and dang this is pretty MMO-like. Honestly reminds me of Nexus archery but without the dragon scale archer armor. More weapons are cool but throwing in percentages AND arrowhead types AND fletching is probably gonna be harder to balance right and might be a tad more confusing in combat too. Also being able to apply two affects to people at the same time with dual wielding might be a bit wack. The chance to stun and bleed (just to name one combo) on the same hit might make PvP between dual wielders depend a lot on RNG.

I’d have him bring back 1.8 but I’m biased sooo

If the reverse had happened and raiders were teleported by staff to their targets, then everyone would be banned by now. This server spends so much effort coddling existing large playerbases that crud like this somehow doesn’t result in any staff getting removed from their positions for pex abuse. We should re-think all this, as we’ve been heading in the wrong direction for quite a while now.

Yeah I remember back when it was normal for big playerbases to have massive shakeups, for races to have civil wars and change ruling family/clan, for empires to shatter and then re-form. Now the biggest force of geopolitical change is the staff and their activity policies, which is what creates and destroys nations in modern LOTC rather than wars and inter-player politics. Activity checks were a mistake With that in mind, do you think Almaris would be a good map if we removed activity checks, seeing as the other things besides activity checks on Almaris are quite similar to Axios that had many aforementioned playerbase shakeups?

Is the server actually less interesting than it was in the ol' days or am I just a nostalgic boomer.

OOC: Hello there! This is an event designed to simulate a single day of halfling life as best as possible. Everybody starts at the beginning of the hour, having just woken up. Their characters then go about their day as they would IRP, eventually falling back to sleep at the end of the hour, which ends the event. Working, eating, talking, and other things your character typically does in a day can and should be roleplayed. There will be a single roleplay prompt happening during the hour to promote interaction, but attending it isn’t mandatory. Feel free to do as you wish. The intention isn’t to attract a large quantity of halflings into one location at a time, but rather to create as much immersion as possible. SoL Event Checklist (Optional): -Wake up ( ) -Eat something ( ) -Do some task ( ) -Interact with someone ( ) -Eat another thing ( ) -Go to sleep ( ) RP: [!] A note is pinned to the Bramblebury Noticeboard! "Oi needa plan' t'a gardens so we can 'ave some proper food fer t'a fall! Anehbodeh wisher 'elp meh? -Dandelion Greenholm" ((5 PM EST, Friday the 9th of April, 2021. Bit later than the usual time because some folks have physical school to attend))

((MC Name: jumperhand3)) Name: Filibert Applefoot Vote Anne Cottonwood for Sheriff? Yea () Nay (x)

"RIGGED!" exclaims Filibert Applefoot

Filibert Applefoot smiles "Hope oi won!"

The Ballot: ((MC Name: jumperhand3 )) Name: Filibert Applefoot Vote for Elder: James Peregrin () Greta Goodbarrel () Filibert Applefoot (xxx) Jordan Applebottom () Winter May Gardner ()

[!] A folded up newspaper is found in your mailbox! This is rather strange, as you don't recall ordering any newspapers recently... T'a Pumpkin Papers ~The burrow terrace of Bramblebury!~ Contents: ~Cookie Crumb Bakery Opens!~ ~Wilburt and Alice's Wedding!~ ~Birthday Party Shogging!~ ~Field Work!~ ~Cookie Crumb Bakery Opens!~ ~Entering the Cookie Crumb Bakery!~ A fantastic bakery, ran by none other than Mondy Applefoot, my sister, has opened up for business here in Bramblebury! Giving out all sorts of baked goods and drinks for the low, low price of absolutely nothing, the bakery has been an incredible hit among us halflings! Even biggun visitors love the bakery! The bakery is currently looking for new employees, so please contact Mondy Applefoot if you wish to take part in this labor of love! ~Assembling together in the bakery!~ ~Wilburt and Alice's Wedding!~ ~The marriage ceremony as it occured! Illuminated by nothing but moonlight and pumpkins, how romantic!~ Wilburt Woodstock and Alice Redroot have gotten married! They've moved into a new burrow together near the Goodbarrel family burrow, and together make for the (second) newest halfling family in the village! May Knox bless them and all they do! ~Birthday Party Shogging!~ ~The feast!~ A lovely birthday party took place nay too long ago! A double birthday party, celebrating the birth of both Jeannette Applebottom and Sorrel Peregrin, involving booze, good food, plenty of shogging (a wondrous sport if you ask me!), and fireworks at the end! ~Listening to music as we drink ourselves clear o' thoughts!~ Naturally, we all went o'er to the tavern afterwards and drank ourselves silly! T'was the best party I've ever attended, even if I was late for the initial feast! ~Field Work!~ ~A simple sketch of me wif me favorite shovel!~ I did some work on the fields near the village's entrance. Plenty of spots were a tad bit dry previously, but I've properly watered the fields! Even uncovered a big ol' stone in doing so! Hopefully we can drag the stone out eventually! Also, don't forget to vote in the upcoming Elder elections! I will be running, and I count on YOU readers carrying me to electoral victory! Long Live Bramblebury, Long Live the Wee! -Filibert Applefoot, Resident halfling and tavernkeep.

It was like 8:25 PM EST or something

[!] A note is pinned to the Bramblebury Noticeboard. Runnin' fer Elder! ~Halfling folks milling about this fine af'ernoon!~ I, Filibert Applefoot, inheritor of the grand Applefoot legacy, wish to run for Elder of the village of Bramblebury. I have shown my amazing skills through my tavern management, and thus I am more than qualified to become an Elder. When I am elected, which is absolutely going to happen as I am far too amazing to lose an election, I shall take it upon myself to give all ol' halflings who still need a burrow a proper home to call their own! I shall also increase farming output, giving us more resources to consume in lavish feasts! -Filibert Applefoot, local halfling tavern owner, one of the greatest halflings to have ever lived.

The april fools tavern teleport after drinking too much alcohol killed me. I did a /modreq to try and get revived by a mod but it wasn't fast enough. I have no clue where I popped because I was instantly downed upon teleporting and couldn't open f3 to check coordinates. How much minas I had before I died Me dying and losing like 95 minas.

“Oi already ‘ave enough pumpkins...” says Filibert Applefoot with a sigh

LOTC will never top the 2018 April Fools when the server was split in two between PvP and RP.

I don’t think what race a persona is impacts crime RP that much unless they’re a fancy CA dark magic entity. Bandits aren’t numerous enough to be picky about recruits, after all.