Tuluk, Nub City?

The levy is some bullshit. It's basically the Citizens Patrol / Citizens Call from like, a year or two ago, but without the arena to do RL weekly mini sparring RPTs in, no training, no after party in the arena tavern, no lessons being delivered verbally by older, skilled PC's and 'taught' to everyone in the room, etc. So. Gay, is what I mean.

They get tattoos. They also hire breeds. They have... a tent?

Yeah, fuck the levy.

The figure in the Levi-emblem stitched silken greatcloak says, in northern-accented sirihish, pouting, "But Amos, this axe-design doesn't match the embroidery pattern on my velveteen and gurth shell plated hunting leggings.."

Also, the Citizens Call was, if I am recalling correctly, actually PLAYER DRIVEN by Raleris Winrothol.. None a that shit in mah Ivory brah.

the important thing is it was player driven. Hence why it was killed. "NON-CLAN MEANS OF BUILDING SKILLS, ACTIVITY, AND COMRADERY?! NAY! BECOME A SHARTIST AND BE THE SLAVE OF THE PLAYERBASE IF YOU WANTS FUN!"

I think part of the reason Tuluk was so packed and so filled with player driven stuff was that that was when Senga was my admin and I was the only Tuluki st. A lot of stuff got rebuilt to player specs, but it took forever, and anything Senga could do to lighten her workload as she slowly left the game, with my having to run everything through her to get anything approved. She would always show up for circle animations to join the circle, but other than that, I was about the only one doing anything for clans in the area. But the thing is, everyone loved the animations and being able to do construction, but at the same time, Senga was the admin and I couldn't get much else done, but I also tried to do storylines for the players and animated barracks npcs all over, and even just found random pcs that were already solo rping like they thought they were alone and in one of those moods, like junking ants by scattering them back on the ground, out foraging for food in the scrub, so I animated them scattering, some of them taking a leaf, and all of them moving back toward an ant mound.

I would say the largest difference in muds and dungeons and dragons DMing is... players DO drive good plotlines and flood to any clans where you're the npcs and their abilities and personalities, for clannies, and acting as the physics, and almost fate on a mud, versus driving the world with 'watch only' rpts that you only watch because the outcome was predetermined. That is... it's healthier for a mud, with its many players and more vast worlds to explore, to let players drive their own plots. You want a wagon, okay, I'll build it but submit a log of the RP behind it, and if it's not precoded (like the ability to permanently alter a room, actually codedly creating a clean for pcs who formed one, etc. The saddest thing about Dargan to me, is that he would have easily become the highest rank a human could if he'd been human. He was that good. But racial stuff kept him down. >.< And yes, Qoriya sucks, but she's the reason why so many people know about psionics and learn to barrier/expel. She's not played -badly-, the player is an awesome player who is great at telling excellent stories. But as a 'player' (playing a character around her at times before and after), being around her character is super brutal if you're not an extremely narrow form. I hated to see this player's special apped sorcerer who had never gathered or cast, and wanted to just play it out as a merchant for an IC year or two... and just checked their bio to see if they knew magick, led them off, pked them. On meeting them. You can't hate the character for being as loyal/cruel as you'd expect, and they're very good at what they do, but in a position of so much power, it has the ability to squelch a lot of different storylines.

Actually, the arena was closed because people twinked in it forever. For. Freaking. Ever. It ended up in a certain independent merchant getting enough PC's tagging along with his twinkish self that his little group brought more people to the HRPT than the legions themselves did. It was a sad sight.

longer it takes orher people 2 reach same point, farther ahead dey are.