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    The Union of Barclay and Barbanov

    in Arcas Human RP Archive

    Posted

    Fyrr the Black smacks Edmund on the back of his head with the rolled up invitation after fetching it from the stout but not unattractive lady mail-courier, pointing to the Bren family name written at the bottom of the invitationals with a ring-clad forefinger. “What’s this say?” he inquires, squinting at the long words.

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    The Sanneyir's Seizure

    in The Kingdom of Oren

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    The Warden in the midst of his lapse of movement.

     

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    The Sanneyir’s seizure

     

    When midnight came, and their home was as quiet as the grave, there was little sound beyond the drawn of blades so sharp and minute it was as if they were being drawn in tandem into the ear of Leatherback.

     

    ”Wake up Leatherback!”

     

    The lone Ithelanen seemed fixed in some sort of unresponsive catalepsy, the four men about him unmoving as they awaited some response. To any untrained or ignorant observer of the aging, lonely elf, it would appear that he were a dead man propped upright - a facsimile of some mal’ drained of whatever bile and vinegar that pulsed through his organs and puppeted into standing in the town square, freezing at the sight of movement like some great beast of times long passed taking indulgence in a children’s party-game. 

     

    The four citizens of the Pale addressed him again, no response beyond the hummingbird-like quivering of the chest of the circled elf who was dedicating each stitch of the cloth he called character to trying to suppress that very movement. He could not tell how long he lay in a trance in the town-square, whatever defensive stupor he maintained rolling into hours and into days. The old elf, the functions of his brain possibly lapsing to the rolling bouts of dehydration that a man stood hard-fast and perfectly motionless for hours would only know full well, did nothing to greet his friends about him. No gesture extended to those he had known for years, the stress of some war that had been whispered to his ear by humans long-distance and father caring seemingly weighing on every movement with such gravity that he simply could not.

     

    By the second day, those wondering for the health of the decrepit Leatherback had peeled away, instead going about their day in the empire’s elven slave-town. With the men finally turning their backs, whatever psychic slight that had waylaid Leatherback into staring as a deer-in-lamplight had dissolved into the ether with an imperceptible haste, the elf staggering from his own city in a fearful, sun-bleached fugue.

     

    It seemed that although he had been unresponsive and unmoving, what remained of his cognizance had yet to be pickled by acerbic shock. Britches stained and sodden, the lone archer reached for a tail that he had yet to possess, if but only to tuck it between his legs before making his delirious, odd-footed pace towards the nearest human guard. Perhaps the great leader of Elves outside-of-Malin had always felt safest in the hands of those who hand out such a sobriquet so freely.

     

    “In Aldemar,” the exasperated elf cried out between deep breaths, his legs exhausted from the run that brought him to the gates of the Bastille and further weakened by some psychosomatic lethargy only ever induced during the expelling of any and all dignity that a “great leader” retained, “Tresery, surrounded.”

     

     

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    [Air Evocation][MA]frill

    in Accepted Magic Apps

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    MC Name: frill

    Character's Name: Fyrrathul

    Character's Age: 94

     

    Character's Race:

             Mali'ker

     

    What magic(s) will you be learning?

             Air Evocation

     

    Teacher's MC Name:

             Ducklingator

     

    Teacher's RP Name:

             Lilach Everupt

     

    Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it:

             No

     

    Do you agree to keep Story updated on the status of your magic app?:

             Yes

     

    Are you aware that if this magic is undergoing an activity trial and fails said trial, that you will lose the magic? And that if it is apart of the Lore Games, it might drastically change soon?:

             Yes

     

    {field_name_147}

             {field_value_147}

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    DUTY BOUND

    in Humanity

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, sergisala said:

    Edward Galbraith weeps as he realizes that his old friend is still alive and is now being manipulated by the hangmen "Adrian, I will save you from the darkness and bring you to the Orenian light" he would mutter after clearing his tears.

     

    Fyrrathul the Black smiles widely as he shares a flagon of ale with Adrian, meeting his pint with Adrian’s in a hearty cheers. “General and heir.” he applauds, taking a hearty sip.

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    the terms of service dont mean staff can steal lore lol

    in Miscellany

    Posted

    1 hour ago, ScreamingDingo said:

    It’s not some weird copy-right plagued thing, it’s people just not approaching the correct members of staff and rumors flying into a meaningless shitfest.

     

    Yeah, I originally had little to no issue with it because Muffins joined relatively recently in the life-span of the server, so hasn’t experienced a CT that hadn’t co-opted the Wilven monks (and thus the player-ran group was something that she’d have to actively research to know even existed). The contention I do have is that “uh read the terms of service” was the immediate excuse. It just don’t fit.

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    the terms of service dont mean staff can steal lore lol

    in Miscellany

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    Non-exclusivity, royalty-free hosting, and Wilven monks

     

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    The Wilven monks existed as a group since January 2012, serving as a group within Asulon that sought to be a “crucial part of new-player experience and be an excellent source of RP.”

     

    CT came into existence over half a decade later and wordlessly co-opted these duties, with the assumed owner of the group not being informed. On trying to make roleplay items signed as a Wilven monk of his own group, Keldrith was punished for “falsifying” lore items and the items removed from the auction house. The Community Team had assumed ownership in his absence and was not allowing him to use lore he had written.

     

    Although initially seen as a staff team co-opting the responsibilities of a group that had the same, and assuming the role of providing “player-ran” “personal, intimate assistance”, LotsOfMuffins refused to revise the lore used when asked by one of the creators of said lore.

     

    On asking why LotsOfMuffins was using the Wilven Sanctuary Monk lore as the basis for the veil for her community team’s staff personas, I was told that they had been doing so for years. After reminding LotsOfMuffins that the community team hasn’t existed for years, I was told to “check the terms of service, we can do what we want”. The basis of the staff report is going to explain just why that argument is a very bad one to use.

     

    Here it is;

     

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    “By sharing, posting, or otherwise uploading content that is protected by intellectual property rights to LOTC service(s) you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content. If one does not own or cannot grant the rights to said intellectual property it is forbidden to share, post, or otherwise upload this content to LOTC service(s).”

     

    This is a standard boilerplate for online web hosting; without it, the forums and server would not be able to function as they would have no license to host anything not made by LoTC (and therefore nothing from players) nor use players’ in-game characters. Characters are still works that belong to the author, and the author retains the copyright. Without a non-exclusive (and sublicensable) license, the server would not be able to function as the work created by players needs to be shared on LoTC services for people to see it. 

     

    However, this does not mean that the content uploaded to LoTC is copyright free, and does not allow administrators or players alike to grant themselves copyright ownership. With this form of agreement, the player has signed an agreement for use between LoTC and themself, licensing the use on LoTC but retaining rights to the creation.

     

    Agreeing to licensing doesn’t overrule copy-right ownership and are a bare-bones necessity for the platform to function. To say that the copy-right owner (Keldrith!) may no longer use nor dispose of his work while still using the license he granted the server to host his work as an excuse to instead have the Community Team use the work entirely (without being a significant alteration nor derivation) is very poor form for any person, let alone an administrator of the server.

     

    The licensing agreement can’t, and shouldn’t, be used as a basis for administrators to take lore from its creators and refuse the creators use of their own lore. To deflect onto it as an argument is a pathetic handwave.

     

    also unban me from the lotc discord. you banned me for pointing this out 4head

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    Community Team, Please Fix This!

    in Miscellany

    Posted

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    While we talked about a number of ways to potentially improve this such as fast travels or improved soulstones we eventually always hit a stall - if a new player gets lost or finds themselves in an empty city for the first few hours of gameplay chances are we’ll never see them again. It is for this purpose that we believe the most effective form of assistance is a personal, intimate assistance that only our community can provide - and it is this role that the Wilven Monks will fulfill.

     

    We understand however that this will be a controversial change and one that may not be so rapidly accepted. For this purpose however our goal is simple - we’re running a trial phase on the Monk project. As we now have a better way to physically measure retention we can map noticeable improvements over time - such as improvements made by a joint staff/player monk organization. As such the goal is fairly simple - give this project three months to take off on its feet to see how retention improves. If it doesn’t then it’ll be sent off to the farm post-haste.

     

    Some of the concerns around the previous order of monks will likely be a concern around this point. The order will not have any magic to start out, instead focusing it’s daily on assisting new players to get to nations and groups ready to accept them. This will be something of a joint project between these nations and the monks, aiming to try to coordinate new player “drop offs” where players are brought to the gates and passed off to a steward or some such. This should help decently with retention and give every nation and group a good chance to prove their ability to retain players.

     

    [here]

     

    I think the idea of Wilven monks as player helping-hands from the Wilven Sanctuary and crypt monks as reviving-NPCs of the cloud temple has just been lost by the Community Team coming into existence and co-opting the “player-ran” “personal, intimate assistance” aspect into a staff responsibility for a team that just didn’t exist back then. 

     

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