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This particular section inspires perplexion within Gailien. He'd look towards his acquaintance — a young itinerant much like himself, asking, "Why would a criminal willingly wear a Carrion flower in a tiva wreath? Maybe they intended to reference those who bear criminal history hoping to start anew, much like the mark of Siss'siru..."

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people who apply to mod or any staff team open themselves up to criticism and backlash, -1s are taken into consideration and evaluated as long as they provide a valid point and aren't just "-1 lol" tier replies so yeah if someone goes, "they are a two-faced person because of what they did in rp one time" that's pretty much going to be ignored unless the person reviewing the staff apps is desperate to fill their roster edit: slorbin also hit the nail on the head too. there have been some genuinely disgusting fkn people on staff, so people who get -1'd by a plethora of players don't get it for no reason or because people do it out of spite

short n sweet and I strongly agree with this, even if a lot of players might not share the same sentiment in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with reaching out to your RP partner OOCly (be it your ally, enemy, or someone you want to roleplay with), brainstorming potential avenues of roleplay in order to form a long-lasting narrative. ofc this is highly circumstantial and isn't meant to excuse metagaming or other malicious acts that would require that sort of development to unfold RPly. I mean this in a purely non-problematic manner OOCly the beauty of LOTC is its practically limitless storytelling, and I think this is something a lot of players underestimate like unbaed and toffee said, i hope things are going well for you. if you're unhappy with your current community, it's best to move on

I never said we should start labeling 12 year olds as pedophiles, nobody thinks that. I think we're all pretty aware of the fact that new players are most often younger and should be granted leniency when they make these mistakes. Don't get me wrong, I and many other players agree that people who roleplay 30 year old elves as teenagers or even toddlers is just as strange, but a 30 year old elf is still not culturally an adult, and have free reign to date a 300 year old elf since the server rules allow it. That's the focal point of this post

writing this on mobile so formatting might not be incredible with this one With the recent rule update, in-character acts of grooming involving a character under the age of 18 are now prohibited. I think we can all agree that it's a great and long overdue change. However... This rule doesn't address scenarios I and many others feel to be problematic and dangerous in the same fashion that other questionable types of RP are: Cultural pedophilia. Unwillingly, what the f*ck is cultural pedophilia? "Cultural pedophilia" is as an act in which a character romantically involves themselves with another party in a fashion that is allowed via server rules, but outright pedophilia in-character. For example, a 200 year old elf dating an 18 year old elf. According to server rules, this is allowed, since the character is 18 and is not physically a child. Rape, grooming, brothel, prostitution and bestiality roleplay are prohibited in their entirety, even in the mention or implication of backstories. In fact, to my knowledge, concepts such as rape are non-existent, non-canon in our LOTC universe. If these are concepts that are so strongly barred from the server, why is the line not drawn at what is the 100% textbook definition of in-roleplay pedophilia? Let's take something else into consideration. With this being something completely allowed, characters are also allowed to abuse this in-RP for self gain as opposed to reporting it OOCly. We've seen players use this claim of elven-pedophilia as in-RP propaganda against a community or individual. See last map. In order to allow certain younger characters to join their council, Irrinor lowered their age of consent from 50 to 30 in order to better accommodate these characters. They were RPly referred to as pedophiles by their aggressors. While it may be reasonable to RPly criticize communities who do this, if it's a case of blatant in-character pedophilia, it's something that should be immediately reported as opposed to being allowed to fester and escalate as an "It's just roleplay" situation. I want to make it abundantly clear, I do not approve of any form of lowering the age of consent, even if culturally. I equally believe it's questionable for communities or cultures to be altering their respective age of consent. This is not an attempt to deflect RP backlash.The point I'm making is that these are very specific situations that should be handled with OOC rather than RP. "But what about new players?" I've considered the fact that this might be something that slips most new players' minds. While the universal age of 18 rule might be pretty clean cut, the idea of a cultural age of consent wouldn't be immediately understood. It takes time to learn the ropes, especially gaining full comprehension of elven culture. New players should be granted leniency so long as what they did was an honest mistake. "How do we enforce this?" With any suggestion for a rule change, there will always be a,"But how can this be tracked?" Comment. Why have any rules at all if not every situation can be monitored? No rule on the server will completely prevent people from breaking it - there will always be people who try, and there will always be people who get away with it. However, by enforcing a ban on cultural RP-pedophilia, you allow players who partake in this type of RP to be punished. It becomes unacceptable as opposed to simply tolerated because of "but it's technically allowed," drivel. This post is not meant to be an attack, but rather, a criticism. To my knowledge, this isn't a conversation I've seen to be heavily addressed, so I'm interested in seeing thoughts and feedback from players and ideally, the admin team.

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