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"Oh by Larihei!" a woman shouted through the streets as she franticly dashed through the streets, a sweat forming upon her brow, she was just informed that Vaarus had written another missive "I hate this Hydra beast that claims to speak for us! I pity his followers! As they often abandon each other, like rats scattering at the first sign of trouble! NE LONGER WILL WE SUFFER THESE FOOLS! RESIST THEM MY LLIRAN, RESIST THEM AT EVERY POINT!" she manically shouted, as she made her way through the streets. Preparing to give address.

Laerdya gave a quick glance of the missive in private, she decides not to bother to read it in it's entirety, as this would be the third missive of mithering content in regards to Haelun'or she had read in one Elven Day. She speaks to herself after stuffing the missive away "I recall my favorite stories about Larihei, of when Malin had pushed aside her advice and pleads, had her opt to write missives about the state of Malin's domain, instead of going out into the world to create an better alternative." she commented dryly "All of these fools complain that none follow the path of Larihei, yet did nothing when the Princedom first arose, naught but mockery. They say reap what you sow, but nothing on part of Haelun'or was sown, only words that ultimately hurt their chances of any progress." she says, a rare sight for possible on lookers, anger upon her features, and the hint of such in her tone "All so afraid to change, unwilling to such, ironic that Larihei's flock are people of progress. They know nothing." she stated, bitter and angry, perhaps a fury greater than the woman could handle, a single finger rose up under her nose, as blood began to flow, staining the glove upon her hand. She vaguely says in murmur, her tone suggests warning "More of these gormless individuals take ink to paper.."

Laerdya comments after glancing through the missive, giving very little care to read it after it was stated the individual was the brother of Braxus. "I remember when the Sohaer Braxus openly declared in a room full of twenty or so individuals that all the other nations were snakes, constantly denounced that they were not worth while with missives sent about how their laws did not matter. This led to getting himself and the last Sohaer butchered. Ironically enough they call for democracy when none of them would have stood for it in the past. No longer will the rest of the 'Aheral suffer the fools who believe they are fit to lead by some misguided sense of importance and competence. These individuals have nothing to offer but empty words, for they are incapable of real action to bring about great progress that we should expect our leaders to drive."

Laerdya decides not to muster a snarky comment on the events unfolding. The said comment would have likely turned into a massive monologue about hypocrisy of most of the Elves. She instead opts to walk about the city of Haelun'or, scheming her schemes of a farm, and the bounty that follows.

"It will be interesting what transpires in Haelun'or." A Mali comment after hearing the news within the lands of Savoy "It will remain to be seen if some of the citizens of Haelun'or will embrace this, or lash out like undeveloped children."

Laerdya looked upon the missive and gave an approving nod, remarking to herself within private "The time has been long overdue for 'Aheral that are able to provide for the state, and the ability to defend it to have their home, I wonder if the Haelun'orian's would prefer to submit or continue to perish."

An Elfess in a farm far away looks over the missive with her dulled eyes, and simply sat the missive aside, returning to her messy writings. A flurry of thoughts which brought on a sigh.

Return of Anime eye gang when?

+1 Lore approved schematic and notes.

Laerdya looks over the missive idly as she came into possession of the paper, commenting "Finally, an Elf that actually can accomplish what she sets out to do, rather than complain of stagnation."

An image moments after disaster struck. (I'm not actually hacked, dw.)

Laerdya raised a brow as she discovered the unfinished letter within her mailbox at her farm house, her fingers carefully pick it up as then moved to head indoors. She took a seat as she laid the letter out on the table to read, her light blue eyes reading over the letter twice over. The woman's expression was unchanging, though the few sentences had great effect upon Laerdya, as she folded the letter neatly to preserve somewhere safely. She spoke softly, aware of how spirits of those that have past might wander "You understood what will take some 'Thill life times to understand, that our way of life must be worked towards, not expect to be delivered on a platter, unlike some others who merely complain and never work towards the change they want. I know what others might think of you, considering that you were Musin, however, none truly understand the world as I, it makes no difference between the greatest of powers or entity that exist in the lands, and the lowliest of flies. Only the actions it takes is what truly matters. Rest well, llir." Laerdya pondered a few moments over the letter, as she slotted it safely into a draw, shutting it shortly after. She never thought much of herself as a leader, more so an advisor, after all, her path was different from that of a leader, and her insight suited for the role she fashioned for herself. Though there is more than one way to lead change, through guidance and assistance, ink and quill, blood and steel, but she knew one thing for sure, a group of people that must go through understanding must do so at their own pace, refusal will simply lead to ruin. Though some ideas ran through her mind. She came to a stop as she pulled a seat out to sit upon it, thinking about her prior thoughts, as she mutters out one more comment. "Ironic the thoughts you inspired in me, when most fail to make a substantial, coherent thought, and they believe themselves above the turning chaos of the world."

Laerdya looked over the missive again within the comfort of her home from prying eyes outside the Jade State, six jars upon a table, as a single un-gloved hand rubbed the grains of alchemical powder from one of these jars she'd produced a few Elven days ago with her teacher, looking over the words, as she pondered the situation the Silver State had found itself in. "Perhaps a song?" she quietly asks herself, as she put the missive aside to focus on her studies, thoughts for later and others to speak to. Humming as she shifted focus.

I've heard many stories of players getting dossed, doxxed or sent disturbing images, and these were done entirely by the people to get their way on what happened with their MC RP mineman character or nation/group. Even with the suggestion of anonymizing details from evidence that could be used for harassment I'd assume the abuser would still have access to it, and I don't think it is exactly hard to get around an IP ban, I think maybe having a listing somewhere that just shows if a player is ToSed or not would be good, most of the time the community finds out about it one way or another. Either way, when it comes to making suggestions to these kinds of situations we have to assume the utter worse could happen, so we can better prevent it and stop it before it spirals further.

This is just straight up a bad idea, as it allows the abusers to identify who reported them and who didn't, depending on the severity of the individual who got banned can lead to stuff like doxxing and blackmailing off the server grounds and other horrible shit.

Better x3

I brought Aether back in 2019 roughly, before many of the issues I have with LotC mounted upon each other, you can donate to a server (or spend time and effort on it) and still have issues with what unfolds. LotC is a strange place, I've had fun and I know others have had fun on the server, and then on the other times I and others simply haven't, and when situations like these happen, a change in culture needs to happen, I think some complaints about things being swept under the rug is not admins intentionally sweeping things under the rug, as I was DMing Joel just before we were talking about how more resources need to be available, we need to teach players how to be safe online when engaging in online communities, we need to offer the various communities within LotC the ability to self-moderate properly, this should have been done years ago, so while I may have lashed out at Joel today, he is not the problem at the end of the day, this is an issue that has been with administration, as far as I can tell, since the forming of the server, it requires the team to come together and actually provide meaningful options and resources to the community so in future none of these situations ever occur to this scale, no more promises an actual change, hopefully with the safety procedures that comes to pass. While I might hate what happens on LotC in general, be it missteps of staff, or despicable treatment players endure by horrible people, not talking about such only will foster a worse community for LotC in the long run, time and time again, players see certain situations that have happened and wonder why x hasn't been banned for y and just begins forming a toxic culture, as it just seems the most effective way to deal with these situations is thrown whatever you can to the forums to cause a storm that can not be ignored. Though I do not care much for LotC in general, I still care about those in the community, I still have plenty of friends on the server, and just remaining silent about any of this only puts them and others who are vulnerable at risk to predators, it is the duty of all to maintain a safe environment, to be mindful and offer support when required.

Even if the person wasn't a friend, and I wasn't involved in the situation and only heard about, I would have lashed out all the same, I don't think it is fit for anyone to be in a position you are, and then rub in the face of a player a horrible situation they went through that was reported to admins. I honestly considered one of you the better admins up until recently, despite that not all the time our views aligning, despite some of my concerns about you. I don't know what it is, but ever since the whole basketball meme happened you've just lost it, I don't know what else I can say. Despite attempting to paraphrase my three years of frustration of watching friends or strangers alike having to go through these exact situations, to me only doing it because you happened to make a shitty remark to one of my friends (and let us be honest here, you haven't really done yourself many favors with the community over the past month). I honestly hope after you step down shit goes better for you, as I said people make mistakes, no one is entirely perfect, myself included as my messages are contradicting due my conflicting feelings, but LotC has that ability to draw out the worst in people, and ultimately, I don't believe in some cases it is out of malicious intentions, you had a good drive and at least had vision for the server, you got shit done. You at least in some form cared about the community imo. Idk what else to say or what to put, I just hope a productive step forward is taken, I just tire from all this drama (yes, by replying I acknowledge I am taking part in it, but it is hard to remain quiet after being so for about three years). I just want people to have fun.

Specifically what made me screenshot it was Joel's remark about the 'virtue signalling' about the situation, to me, it just seemed callous. Time and time again, I have seen some of the most heinous shit happen on this server, at one point it drove me to quit the server and **** off for months as I tried to deal with just how horrible some of the situations that unfold on this server. I just tire of it, I'm sick of the three years I've been on this server as I feel like my mental state degrades as admins just in general seem to be unable to handle situations that unfold on here. It ultimately just comes down to the fact that the community often doesn't have much way in the form of recourse when they get frustrated (with good reason) when situations like this happen, at most you can quit and join a 2-bit server (or just leave MC RP entirely), but LotC has that appeal due to it being a bigger server and long-standing, hence why I think most people often fight, and as said prior, LotC has great potential to become one of the greatest servers, but when constantly the safety of the community isn't maintained, be it due to predators roaming around or people so obsessed with LotC they'll commit federal crimes via doxxing or dossing, there is little reason for one to believe LotC can reach that full potential. But to refocus as I said, not much is there to offer in the form of recourse when situations like this unfold, most of the time it just ends up to people complaining about how/why people aren't banned and trying to get the evidence, but from what I've seen in a recent situation (and not so recent), if you give people a slap, they will be far more cautious proceeding forward, and limit the chances for the 'hard evidence' to be recorded. My anger in this situation isn't purely directed Joel, as honestly, Joel isn't the only admin who has made mistakes (which is only human, no one is perfect) and for better or worse, current admins and future admins will inherent their predecessors actions and works, flaws and all. I feel often times from my talks with some of the admins I've had, that they don't really care for LotC, that it is honestly nothing more than 'CV fodder', as being able to say you manage a community that has 300~ daily unique visitors is no small feat, and as a result, I feel more care is given to the 'image of LotC' than the state of the server itself, and ultimately why I just feel in a paradoxical manner, radical, disruptive response is the only way to help LotC, we only need to crawl through the forums and find these instances are not unique, and happen time and time again, which begs the question, if we can not trust admins to handle these cases properly, who are we to trust. Now that ramble is out of the way, another reason why I did what I did was the treatment of one of my friends by Joel, I can't remember the full details, so I won't go try to delve into them, but it was utterly disgusting to hear and just annoys me, I feel referencing a shitty situation a player went through just because they pissed you off is just gross, months on end I watched this situation unfold, as I ******* begged and pleaded for a scumbag to be removed from the server for his deranged treatment of another individual. How is this meant to build confidence in any player if situations like these if they're ******* weaponized against the players. How am I meant to believe any promises of change is meant to happen when an admin told us they banned that individual, when in fact, they are self-banned. So the purpose of me sending that screenshot was not in an attempt to slander those in the Discord, most of you are still cool, and I understand being kicked if that is what actually happened. I will say, people in that Discord were doing their best to get rid of KP from the server. But for your question of if it was worth it, hopefully, I just want people to be safe in this community, I don't want people to go through terrible suffering over a minecraft server, and ultimately, I honestly believe the only way that can happen is with a clean slate and proper procedures established ASAP. Though really one can only hope.