Venomous_Pup

I think unironically adding in the ability for tawkinists to OOCly consent to getting their humours taken, it would be so ******* funny if my guy Jiro took my humours and forced me to respawn in a cell and dangled my hat over me for another 6 months while he forces me to be an alchemy slave on my Witch.

THE WITCH OF CHAOS CACKLES AS I META GAME THIS "KNOW MY PAIN! JAY AMARANTH!"

The Witch of Chaos was bright mad, from the calamity unleashed, how grand, how intoxicating it was. "May Chaos take the World!" she screeches. All those who were weak who managed to clutch and lie their way to power to subjugate the world into stagnation, no more. A new age must usher, and she would not stop until she saw it or until she no longer drew breath. It was a glorious future she saw, a better one.

I didn't read but it is Aelesh so just accept please : 3

Learn your place purple tags.

A Witch cackles, everything going exactly as it was meant to, after all, it was only the day prior they had found out about the former Sohaer's foolish words. The world would be purged of men like him.

Keyword URGENT, RIGHT NOW!

An Oyashi Yosei foams at the mouth; she was eager for battle, yet the Dwarves had committed to further dishonour. However, deep down, she knew none would tolerate the Dwarves in the future.

Mayura looked over the missive as she headed to the countryside for the late harvest of the crops. She clutched the missive in her hand after reading it. She did not think the Emperor was responsible, for the honourless alchemically altered mole Dwarves had not specified who exactly was captured, but she knew vengeance would be had for the deaths they had caused and that the Dwarves will understand fear in ways they could never have imagined. "Ena-sama.. We will have work to do." she quietly mutters to herself as she neared the compound, thinking for a fleeting moment, about what is missing out front..

Current: Updated: Purpose: Currently, Witchtallow leverages lore references to Pale Blood Magic, which can likely cause some confusion between what a 'moderate' living sacrifice is in the modern-day usage of Genus, so it has been updated to reflect the new changes to modern Blood Magic. Secondly, given how somewhat easy it would be to spam make Witchtallow if it remained at 2 genus cost, I decided to double it, so hopefully it requires cooperation or attempting to get sacrifices to make the item, allowing it to be useful for people to be able to stock up for big rituals, but at the cost of losing the potential 2 Genus by converting it into Witchtallow. Feedback welcome. -Small Change Log, after talking in DMs with Prima, it felt appropriate that Witchtallow in the modern era requires an ST signature and increasing the Rakir count, edited the extraction redline to future-proof the lore in case anything might alter a player's Genus regeneration, so they can't loop hole around it.

Under Racial Traits, add the following. ⇴ Underdark Accent - [Passive] Due to speaking their own language in isolation, the accent the Mori'Quessir have sounds unlike anything the Descendants are accustomed to when a Mori'Quessir speaks in the common language. Purpose - Do it would be so funny af. (I couldn't be bothered to flesh out this meme fully)

Hey, I can see my house from here

Truthfully, I think a lot of the abilities here need to be scrapped/reworked because, imo don't really make any sense in terms of why they would grant things using the Void as an energy source, learning languages through the Void only seems like something that would make sense with the old ass cognat lore, realisitcally maybe they can learn Moonspeech but idk how ST would feel about that. The whole matter of Prophecy feels in the same way, where it doesn't make much sense. I think ultimately what makes this piece feel distasteful is that it lacks unique interactions like the old one does in terms of Communication from the currently accepted thing, in which opening your vision to the Void makes it more susceptible to Voidal Illusions and so forth, which compartivley just makes it seem like this is a more buffed verison of Veil Watching and able to shrug off any downsides as the abilities I mentioned above which border on Seer means there might be very little trade off if you had to pick between Seer and Veil Watching. I think Mana Sight shouldn't be passive and inline with other abilities and lore that require activation, and perhaps as a trade-off for never needing the alchemical lens, the range is limited and can't leverage alchemical lenses given the conflicting nature (or at least, more clearly outlined). Ultimately, as you'd covered in the OOC purpose, the core function of Veil Watching makes it difficult to maintain. From what I heard, there have been plenty of Voidal Tears already made this map, yet I don't think any of them have gotten a post. While I do think the concept of Veil Watching is solid and deserves a place in the server lore, I think a complete redesign from the ground up would serve the community as a whole better. Given that this is knowledge that is passed down from two conflicting brothers, maybe it might be worthwhile to pursue means within the Veil Watching lore piece to help would-be Tear Makers, such as being able to make faux-veil tears every so often and in a Ritual with x amount of other magi to throw people off with the ability to divine the happenings of the Veil, I 100% agree with what Squak said on the post about it basically solely serving as a 'meta game radar', it needs more substance and some back and forth that encourages attempts out counter play. Perhaps there needs to other lore pieces laid out that Veil Watchers can leverage before an attempt of a rewrite or restructure.

I feel like it should be Tawkin as a whole as the major concept behind it being that you are playing as god, able to cheat death and make faux-life, along with being able to manipulate it. Most of what the minor mutations offer in the minor can be achieved very easily with a standard Alchemy FA, just requires a bit more specific work.

The Witch whom took the domain of Chaos looked over the paper, fingers eagerly hooked into as the material bends and furls around her digits, as wild eyes look over the words. It was a bad joke to her, an illogical solution to a problem that in of itself was illogical; there was no answer to it. Just manifested action. "They always think they can beat the bad by being good, though what songs have been sung recently of heroes? They are all selfish; they will only be as good as the world lets them before they back down." She rasps at reflection upon recent history; none came to mind, though perhaps merely she'd lacked the chance encounter with such an individual. "It doesn't even matter; you can't stop it, only control it."

The Witch awoken, the powers she was blessed and cursed gave swift recovery, barring a singular wound that was left mangled. In dreams and paradox and vision, her thoughts wracked through the shallow victory the Descendants had achieved. 'ORDER IS TYRANNY, PEACE IS COMPLACENCE, JUSTICE IS REVENGE. EQUALLY WE HAVE PROVED IT AGAINST ONE ANOTHER ON THOSE FATEFUL DAYS, SO WHY IS IT THEY REJECT THIS, THE ONE TRUTH?' 'MIGHT MAKES RIGHT - THE WEAK ARE MEAT AND THE STRONG DO IT' 'WHY DO THEY REJECT IT, WHY DO THESE DESCENDANTS PLAY PRETEND AS IF IT WOULD MAKE THEM BETTER THAN WHAT WE ARE, WHY DO THEY INVITE CALAMITY INTO THEIR OWN LIVES WHEN THE RESULT WILL NEVER CHANGE? THEY DON'T SEE IT, DON'T THEY, THE SECRETS I POSSESS, WOULD THEY CHANGE THEIR MIND, TO KNOW IT IS WE WHO ARE DOOM-DRIVEN, THAT THE FATE THAT IS TO COME CAN NOT BE AVERTED? THAT THEY ARE TO BE OBLITERATED, ALL THAT THEY CARE FOR, ALL THAT THEY LOVE, ALL THAT THEY HAVE TRULY FOUGHT FOR? THEY MUST SUFFER, JUST AS WE HAVE. THEY MUST GROW, JUST AS WE HAVE AND WILL' 'I SEE IT, THERE WILL BE LEGION, WITH OR WITHOUT THE SUBMISSION OF THOSE UNDER IT, THEY WILL FIGHT, OR THEY WILL SURELY DIE.' 'WAR IS US, WE ARE WAR, WAR WAITED, FOR WE ARE WAR AND WAR IS US, THE ULTIMATE ANSWER, THE ONE TRUTH, MIGHT IS RIGHT, TO BEAT YOUR ENEMY UNTIL THEY ARE BROKEN BEFORE YOU, AND REALITY IS MADE MANIFEST THROUGH THE CONFLICT' Her mind continued to fall into turmoil in those briefest of moments..

"Time to brew some unlicensed malicious potions." Spoke a Witch, as she slots some googles over her eyes.

That wasn't Leaf 😭

I'm not going to go into a long-winded explanation of everything I have been through over the past 7 years, I have been active on and off the server. Suffice to say, I have witnessed many players become jaded by persistent issues that are never resolved, and so their spark for the server is ultimately crushed. The past two years, I have seen something bordering on this, in which a player has been continually harassed, and despite consistent reporting to both moderation and admins, any meaningful action has yet to be taken to alleviate it, despite said players being warned that it has persisted and only spread further and again, nothing is done. I've heard a player getting banned for literally asking if something they WANTED to do is metagaming. Yet I've reported a conversation that happened in a Discord in which another player claimed another was a pdf and shortly after admitted it was 'trolling', and I think all that happened was they MAYBE got warned. What are the priorities here with the moderation of the community? They've felt absolutely non-existent to me because there is a weird gap in which some cases can be handled by moderation, and in some cases, by admins. I'm not sure what it actually is, but the fact of the matter is, it sucks to deal with. Instead of taking time to grieve and recollect myself after my cat had passed away or spend time with my family or play other videos games or even simply just log on the server and enjoy the roleplay as much as I could (or just ignore these issues), I tried to do things the 'right' way by making sure instances with these problem players were reported so they'd be properly dealt with and not cause issues for other players, I've gotten nothing back while I either find myself ghosted or they've continued to not only harrass me, but others as I feared. Seemingly, it would have been a better use of my time to paste everything all over the forums to try to get rid of them through communal shaming. I legitimately wonder how many players who were just minding their own business have had similar experiences and have had to simply suck it up or otherwise just ended up crashing out or quitting the server entirely. Because this has been happening over and over again, if you want to be stewards for player creativity and the like, I don't want to see another forum post unless its actually detailing what changes are going to be, how certain issues are going to be addressed, and how you will be held accountable should something like this happen again, take a look towards how No Man's Sky made a comeback, or how Runescape handled EoC and OSRS to bounce back. It was the actions they took to regain player trust, not asking players to 'trust me bro' for the millionth time. I legitimately hope for the sake of LotC that players keep up this pressure until some real changes happen, because LotC has so much potential to be such a great server, but it will never realise it when we crush players down with apathy and neglect. I am hopeful, but I have to remain sceptical until real action is taken.

"Thank GOD for the Halflings." comments an incredibly evil witch.