In spite to the dense atmosphere surrounding the general, let's just take a moment to meme and chill out. Here's a challenge for you bunch and whoever makes it funnier than mine gets a like.

The clock is ticking, gentlemen...

Base Classes:

Archer - Also a gunner.
Curate - Thinks healing is a crime.
Duelist - "Backstabs are flanking, bro."
Mage - Boring but powerful nerd.
Martial Artist - Pecs of steel.
Rogue - More honorable than Duelist.
Soldier - Duelist's little bitch.
Summoner - Lazy bastard.

Promos:
Arbalest - Kink for naked Black Knights.
Magic Gunner - The ultimate magic... LE GUN!
Ranger - Forest hippie with a bow.

Lantern Bearer - Thinks 'Phoenix' is not Mercana.
Priest - Most of them are villains.

Ghost - Most of them are protagonists.
Kensei - The storm that is approoooooacchiiiinnnggg.
Firebird - Retarded magical bird with spear.

Evoker - Big number is my utility.
Hexer - Happily coughs COVID without mask.
Rune Magician - Thinks they're smart and innovative.

Monk - Goku got banned again, mom.
Verglas - Nord strip teaser, foot fetish.
Boxer - Theoretically, the weakest martial artist.

Engineer - Bomberman's wet dream.
Void Assassin - Edgy and suicidal emo backstabber.
Spellthief - Actually is a good business.

Black Knight - Not actually a knight, but...
Tactician - Not actually smart, but...
Demon Hunter - Not actually a hunter, but...

Grand Summoner - Abusive parent.
Bonder - "Does it count as 'furry'?"
Shapeshifter - Wonders the same as Bonder.

Hi everyone.



No, this thread isn't about the ban Chaos recently replied to. His explanation needs no echo, it included everything the team had to say on the matter.


This honestly isn't even about Detema's ban, which I slapped down after a lengthy discussion with the rest of the GM team.

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This I think illustrates where the misunderstanding occurred, and in looking back at the conversations I had with the writer and Kit when they first brought this to me, I can understand how it could be.

The way it was presented to me, as happens quite frequently, is that a player experienced something negative and was venting about it to another player.
Said listening player has faith in the GMs enough to urge the first player to seek one out to assist in handling said negative thing.

Often, the listening player will seek us out for the sake of another to help ease their mind or talk to us in their stead as a general means to be helpful.

It's a nice thought and very kind, but ultimately the people directly involved should always come to us so that we get their side without playing a game of telephone while trying to weed out what's what in a situation.

So when Kit brought it to me and gave a vague summary of 'harassment', I asked that they urge the affected player in question to speak with me directly so that I could ask clarifying questions and better understand the situation as best they could explain it from their point of view, and potentially help the situation.

Kit wasn't in the wrong here, and as best I can determine from my digging into this, it seems to be a case of 'no good deed goes unpunished'.

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Here I believe is where my part in the misunderstanding came about.

Kit told me that Seven was distressed and uneasy about the entire situation and wasn't certain about reporting it, so I tried to be as reassuring as possible and asked that he convey that to the best of my ability, I'd handle the situation discreetly and would like to hear them out on what happened.

It's not really Kit's fault that I then put on kiddie gloves to handle the distressed player, that's entirely on me and how I chose to handle the situation at the time.

What I mean by this, is that when anyone comes to me and seems particularly distressed or nervous, I sometimes default to a more passive listener state.
I'll ask clarifying questions, but I don't want to make too many assumptions or put words in their mouth, so I let them talk/vent and they can tell me what's what and we'll go from there.

It's true that during our conversation, only Illumi and Aegis were mentioned. It's also true that Seven asked me not to do anything about it this time.
I agreed, but said that if it persisted, I would be taking action, as it's against the rules and not something I can ignore. Especially if it crosses into the game.

This is why I didn't speak with Aegis and Illumi regarding this situation, nor hand them warnings.

Because Seven* was so distressed, I didn't want to potentially scare them away from reporting by demanding information or asking too much and potentially overwhelming them.

So I didn't ask about Detema's actions at the time and assumed they would mention that situation if I gave them the opportunity and the safe space to. They did not.

In hindsight, not asking was a mistake, and I should have asked every question I had of Seven at the time with the confidence that they could handle my questioning, but I erred on the side of caution and consideration, and here we are.


Unbeknownst to them, I'd already received reports from other players about Detema and others harassing Seven in another incident entirely, that I then went and confirmed with multiple witnesses.

The logs I saw of that incident, while not brought to me my Seven personally, were damning enough to be something that should not be on the game.

But this incident alone isn't why that ban was delivered.

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After that talk with Seven, I took it upon myself to investigate the OOC corner for a time. Two days, roughly. I stood around in it and watched what was going on.

In part, this is because of complaints from other players about Detema's behavior there specifically, but largely it was more of a check of sorts to see if the OOC corner were as problematic as people had been complaining about.

At the time, the GM team was looking into what to do about the OOC corner and whether it should be abolished outright, or moved somewhere else, or some other compromise.

This was before that poll thread I made, as much deliberation was done on it amongst ourselves before we came to that solution to present.

During the first day, I saw a few questionable things but nothing of note that was too damning. I figured I'd watch it for a week and see what happened, to see if people's claims were valid.

As it turns out, I didn't have to wait that long at all.

The second day I looked at the logs of what had happened while I was tabbed out, and saw a host of infractions, specifically from Detema. I was honestly fairly surprised that there was so much bad behavior all at once in such a relatively small window of time, including but not limited to at least two very blatant attacks against other players that not a single person there reported.

This comes as no surprise, but is unfortunate all the same.

If I hadn't been watching, it wouldn't have been reported at all or known to us.

It only gets worse when nobody reports these things, because it makes people think it's acceptable to do and perpetuates the problem.

Thankfully the addition of server-side logging will enable us to run these checks more frequently, and catch more things that run afoul of the rules and lore.

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This is a fairly harsh accusation made against someone that seemed to just want to help and had faith in my ability to handle a situation.

As far as I'm aware and as best I could determine, they don't have any personal vendetta against Detema, and only spoke up because they witnessed and heard things from multiple parties that they felt were wrong and needed to be looked at, both in-game and off-game, with concerns that the off-game things would cross over into the game and become more of a problem if left unchecked.

As they often do.

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Another really harsh accusation, far worse and more damaging than the former.

If the former claims made were borne of a misunderstanding, here's where it was hammered in pretty hard, and starts to look less like an assumption made in ignorance and more of a direct attack to absolve oneself of guilt.

Which, to be fair, it's not your fault Detema was banned, and feeling guilty over it is nonsensical when you can't control other people's behavior.

But dragging two other people through the mud just to say that you're completely squeaky clean doesn't really help anything.

Whether this were truly a malicious attempt or not, I can't say with absolute certainty.

I can see where assumptions could theoretically be made and false conclusions drawn, but at no point in any of that document was there any indication of anything but absolute conviction that these claims were true enough to write up all this, bold the important and most eye-catching bits that damn myself and another player, and pass it around like confetti.

This is where I doubt the intentions behind it.

But without solid proof that it was malicious intent and not just a very misguided mindset that led to this being drafted, all I can do is clarify what happened and why, and hope for the best.

In addition, I've not interacted with Detema enough to know or care what they're like nor form much of an opinion on them from personal experience.

What I do know is things other GMs have had the pleasure of dealing with in the distant past and the not so distant past, and what players have brought to our attention regarding their behavior since I became a GM, and what I personally witnessed while investigating the OOC corner.

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I'll finish this by saying that unbased claims like this don't just damage the reputation of others and lead to ostracization, harassment, or toxicity, but also damage what could and should be a more open discourse between the community as a whole, as it breeds an awful amount of mistrust.

We may always have some measure of division, but please don't poison things further if ever you can help it, intentionally or not.

If you aren't certain of something, or there's any shadow of a doubt, all you need do is ask for clarification and we'll provide as much information as we can.

Thank you for reading.

Applicable BYOND Key - Comic Sans MS

Character Name - Tayuya Rhul

Request Type - Unique interpretations of game concepts.

I think overall they've been pretty good. I'm kinda surprised things went so smoothly honestly. I look forward to many more threads been created using the format.

A fast and silly suggestion. Could we get an item that allows us to place an obj on the ground then edit its icon? In more specifics...

- An item you buy from an NPC (probably in Karaten) that sells a specific usable item named (for now), 'Magical Toolbox'.
- You cannot have more than one of those. It cannot be traded. It may cost a hefty of Murai, like 25000 to 50000, with the option to pay in Asagos or Patrions too (For the people who don't wanna grind).

- On right click, it will have the following options/verbs:
> Change Object Icon
> Change Object Icon State
> Change Density
> Change Pixel X
> Change Pixel Y
> Deploy
> Withdraw

- On use, or 'deploy', an object will spawn under the owner's sprite, using the custom icon that can only go up to 250-500kbs (can be more or less, up to your discrepancy), under the settings of the owner.
- The object's presence lasts indefinitely, but it does not get 'saved', thus reboot may clean it, as well as procs that remove overworld objects from camps like campfires and etc. Naturally, 'withdraw' will delete it from anywhere.
- The density can be modified by other people (to prevent ye' ole' griff), by right clicking it.

The reason is to give players a way to present their things in the game overworld. So let's say... if someone is under a roleplay fight as an Engineer, they can put down their robots as a visual. Or if someone wants to sit on some couch anywhere else, they can just put said couch down and relax. Or even make a campfire anywhere they want. Or display monsters for small player-driven events.

And of course. If anyone abuses this, it can be taken away by GMs and said GMs could spawn another item into the abuser's inventory (Toolbox Fine?), which prevents them from buying this again on the specific character who is punished.

Tis all! I hope this is not hard to take in. I'm really looking forward to make my RPs more visual.

Okay, so I have seen a topic like this fluttering by in a few of the social circles of this game, and knowing how the community can be with it's tendancy to keep problems like this to itself, at least until someone makes a push and expresses it exists in the first place, I figured I'd make a thread on this in the hopes that people with thoughts and opinions on this topic will come forth so that we can do as people have hoped to do with other opinion posts - and make the game a better one for everyone.

Now, I would like to express this in the most clear terms to people. I do not think the GMs are bad people, and I do not want this post to turn into a swarm of people slandering them or anything like that. This post solely exists in hopes that we can improve things even further for the community. As such, please be respectful in your thoughts and opinions. We are talking about real, human people here.

That disclaimer aside, though... I'll start with some of my thoughts at current:

- Truth be told, since Walrus stepped down there has been a lack of GMs that truly represent this community properly. It is especially rare that I see a GM actually play the game or interact much with the wider community as of recent. Now, I don't think that anyone needs to dedicate themselves to doing something they don't want to, but I will request: In addition to the current GM team, I believe we need more people representative of the current community. Of course, they still need to be trustworthy so I'm not sure what I'd suggest here.

- I'm noting that people are expressing that there is what seems to be a lack of transparency from the current team. I don't want to start an argument over whether there is or isn't, but a sense of openness is obviously lacking in the eyes of so many people, and as such, I'm sure people would like to see verdicts be made more openly, in a way that allows people to know what has been done wrong, and have chances to dispute it more easily. This extends to more than just the person being punished - the community itself deserves to be in the loop. It makes it hard to dispute things if they're entirely vague.

- It can sometimes feel like the GM team is slow... and that's not really their fault at all. There are four of them, each with different other callings, and they're doing this all for free, so it's kind of a thankless task. This probably ties in loosely with my first point, in that, not only do I think we don't have enough GMs representitive of the community... but that I just don't think we have enough, period. There are times where there are just none around, which can be a critical issue in certain situations. And so, I think we need some new blood to help get the gears working more. (Again, I can't off the top of my head pose suggestions to you, I've identified a problem, not a solution...)

Now, I must once more make clear. I am not calling into question any specific GM's conduct. I am not going to point a finger and say "You should be a GM" or "You shouldn't be a GM". It would be ideal if others strayed away from such singling out if they can, too. I like the GM team, really. You might not. I just think there need to be MORE, taken from the community.

I leave thoughts to anyone else on this matter. Please be civil here, because I'm sure that'll be an important distinction between getting this post heard and just getting it locked for potential toxicity.

You can currently 'infiltrate' Cellsvich without passage papers if you either:

- Use Mage's Guild to warp in to Cellsvich.
- Be in someone's party while they teleport to Cellsvich.
- Be invited into party from someone else who is beyond the 'invisible tiles that drop spears on you'.

The Emperor's forcing us to pay taxes, so make him move his butt and stop illegal immigrants (and Black Falcon) from using Mage's Guild without any consequences, dammit!

Applicable BYOND Key - Moku203
Character Name - Victoria Freeman
Request Type - Weapon
Request Details -  
I had an idea for my Paplion that I was planning to make into a magic gunner, I was wondering if I could regalia her weapons into mind based attacks so that any shell effects would RPly only be illusory but still cause damage because of it (IE. fire shells making other player characters feel the heat even if it isn't actually happening. thus causing harm to them)


Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - It is mostly just for the RP of her being able to spread her madness to other people and make them believe she is hurting them without actually causing them extreme physical harm, nothing permanent would happen unless the other character OOCLY agreed to it

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - Paplions have mastery over illusion and she will also be a trained mage, so I think it could fit somewhat well with the lore, giving her heightened abilities to manipulate minds and make people believe they are seeing things that are not there. (Cinders, Ice, blinding lights etc.)

Applicable BYOND Key - Van Fenrir4

Character Name - Velossfaeniel van Fenrir (Elf)
Request Type - Character Ability (Genius Scientist/Doctor)


Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - The Character I am suggesting this for, has one purpose in her life and that is to decode the "blueprint to life". She is an Elf thats older than the current counted time and has been around during the Heavens contention even though back then sheltered on mersales. She strayed away from the convenient arts of Mercala, and began to study alternative forms, for the cases where Mercala simply fails (as its restorative healing, rather than true healing)
While she has been around ICly for a think a bit over 3 Years now, I made serval requests already that include her studies but wish to make this more official and elaborate on future goals as well.  Things I wish for her to be proficient in, involves in a sense genetics/alchemy, as well as Monster creation (I once asked that in Lore before and got the approval of that being possible) as I feel all of those things, from an IC standpoint, would help her solve the mysteries of life itself.
So what do I envision?:
-One of the worlds best Surgeons: I once asked Chaos about being able to do Open Heart surgeries roughly 2 OOC years ago, which he approved under the condition that she spends time from the point I asked for it, studying it. 5 IC years, which I am long past now but think that she should have advanced since. Would be to an extent brain surgery possible?  Generally her having a "standing" in the world in that field, being known as one? I imagine her as someone who would frequent Karatyn and giving lectures as a professor at their university.

-Monsterlogist: The ability to research and break down monsters/humans in detail and reassemble them as well as creating whole new breeds of Monsters with special traits. Even the ability to replace Limbs with others (Like...Humans with Crabnoid hands. AKA shaitan light)

-Engineering Mastermind: To help her research, she relies on machinery over magic in most cases to help her by pass Human/Elf limitations. This reaches from Surgery tools to prosthetics over to advanced Mechanation/Bots or other tools that assist her research. 

-Alchemist Loremaster: capable of brewing lots of potions, and creates her own ones of various effects. Mostly Medicine, as she is a capable doctor but also "Enhancing Drugs" and body modifications.

-Researcher of "Blueprint to life": While there has been one event played out once, where she obtained some unspecified ancient knowledge, her main goal is to try and recreate life. Based on the one lore bubble that pops up periodically that all life can be recreated as long as one has the blueprint to it. Essentially that means that she is working towards "cloning" a life which is her main motivation behind being a doctor/monster scientist to find hits towards that.
I do not want to get approved that she can, but it would be nice if I could actively work towards that and mayhaps get slight milestones towards it. For example? Able to perfectly recreate someones finger->hand->Arm etc which can be used to replace lost limbs or malfunctioning organs and therefore save lives of people that mayhaps otherwise be doomed.
This also includes spiritual studies, of course.

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request -

• Lore: Outside of her being a Old dedicated Elf Scientist, I had serval things approved/confirmed in the past (mentioned above) and have been part with that character on some events that supposedly give her some deeper knowledge, which I never really could clarify on. 
  The Lore bubble about "Blueprint of life" is basically what inspired this whole character, and I have asked in the past in Lore about the possibility of creating Monsters ICly (which obviously would be illegal in most parts of the world). I assume that part and the more "Conventional" surgeon stuff is what probably needs approval here. The rest seems relatively basic.
  
  
  
• Roleplay: I have been rping that character for a bit over 3 years on and off. She has always been a not combat character, who has been one of the first Doctors when the Sancutary First opponent and left upon a disagreement with the new lead and the "Overuse" of Mercala, for her taste. She actively avoids using Mercala when she can, as she thinks people rely on it too much and become careless and during certain IC events (mainly around the grief parasite events of before New Cellsvich) were Mercala was ineffective, she was reconfirmed that convenience isn't always the best.
  She is the Head Scientist of an long established (by me, but played by serval people) faction "Fenrir Military Academy", which is a military force of Hyoya (Or rather works closely with them and usually stays in Lordwain).
  I often used to RP her as a "Quest giver" kind of character, I used to send people into dungeons to gather certain monster components or even capture Monsters for payment which she in turn used for her researches.
  She is a true neutral person, who has serval labs around the globe for her researches (along with helping hands) that are mostly hidden to avoid troubles with the Law. She goes however great distances to further her research and has often experimented on the living as well as the dead. For example she would test new medicine/surgeries on people that otherwise couldn't afford treatment. 
  her studies of replicating life, basically go through the other sucjects I mentioned which is why she is seeking to advance those subjects as much as she can, with her "Immortal" life.
  
  
  I do not want any mechanical benefits of course, most of this is Characterstory/Future direction for them  This is also used for "Private RPs" and events I had a lot, which I never really used in game as I was uncertain as far as I could go with this, so I am trying to make it "Offical" here.