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Layonara Server / Apologies for players attending "The Game"
« on: January 28, 2012, 11:04:05 am »
My deepest apologies for those ppl attending the Game last night.

At the last moment when I was ready to jump on, I have had a maassive headache which stopped me from running it last night. I will reschedule next week.

I want to close that off as I have some other quests I want to run after that.

Once again, I do apologise for this,

Much respect,

WDE
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Layonara Server / Apologies!!
« on: July 16, 2011, 05:12:59 am »
I put down the quest as a Friday NZEST/AEST, but it was supposed to be today this time. I will be here at the same time.

If no one shows I will reschedule next week Sat night.

Once again, my apologies......
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Layonara Server / Connection issues
« on: March 12, 2011, 06:07:58 am »
Hi all,

I have to post to my questers this Saturday. I got very very bad latency on my connection...I am not sure why. Very embarrassing.

It comes and goes and is driving me crazy when it comes.

I am going to defer the time to next week. Same time
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Layonara Server / Apologies for tonights quest
« on: February 26, 2011, 12:58:14 am »
I wish to apologise for tonight's quest....I would like to reschedule. Last week has been really hectic and when I plannwed to do one quest after the other week I never thought it would be like this.

My apologies....for those that were wanting to come.
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General Discussion / Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand
« on: February 25, 2011, 08:32:45 am »
As some of you might have heard you might have heard of the Earthquakes that have hit Christchurch.

Just to let you know that I am safe, I am in Wellington so no injuries here.

However Christchurch earthquakes have been really bad to the city.

To date there are 100 or so casualties including some  two young 6-7 month babies.

The city buildings are very badly damaged. Christchurch is experiencing aftershocks.

I have three videos that you may watch if you are wanting to find out whats going on (combined an hour in total of footage):

YouTube - Christchurch Earthquake Special: 60 Minutes NZ - How it Unfolded - Part 1

YouTube - Christchurch Earthquake 2011 - widespread damage, multiple victims and many unaccounted for

YouTube - Christchurch Earthquake Special: 60 Minutes NZ - The Saddest Story - Part 2

Our international friends from USA/Australia/Japan have brought along search and rescue teams and helped out tremendously.

I just thought you might like to know whats going on in more detail just in case you saw on the news there.

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Layonara Server / WDE: Postponed. "It ain't half hot mum"
« on: October 23, 2010, 02:07:58 am »
I apologise for the late postponement. I thought that I could run it today, but so far I am feel absolutely shattered and don't think that I could run it at such a time.

I will definitely run it at a later time, and hopefully we can have fun again.  I do apologise about the fun that I may have disrupted. But at the state I am in at the moment, I don't think that I can do it. My apologies....
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Layonara Server / Apologies about Quest time for Reagents
« on: July 17, 2010, 12:49:23 am »
I just checked the calendar and world time clock. To my dismay it was showing 10:30am in the morning NZEST!!

Most of my quest time starts in the pm (I like my sleep :D).

I have amended it...But if this is not enough time I can defer it so that it can be planned appropriately.

My apologies.
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Layonara Server / Apologies for tonight's quest
« on: January 29, 2010, 07:04:02 pm »
My apologies for tonight's quest. I zm going to have to cancel tonight's game. Because of my graphics card. My graphics card has being plaguing me for a while now and it has decided to die on me last week. I have ordered a new one but it has not arrived yet.

Again my sincere apologies. Once my graphics card is ready I'll be back in full force. Thankjs for understanding.
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Layonara Server / Apologies for quest on Friday
« on: September 04, 2009, 08:19:57 am »
I have to apologise for my mistake on my date on the board. I thought I had put it on a Friday 12am NZEST but it was actually Thursday! So my apologies to those people that showed up.

Many thanks to Dezza who provided a replacement quest on that day. I would like to make this up and have another quest this Sat same time NZEST. Or would you guys like to have another quest on Friday? I will leave it up to you.

Once again, I apologise for this mishap.
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General Discussion / Happy Birthday Kenderfriend
« on: April 14, 2009, 10:09:44 pm »
To the player behind Keppli. Happy Birthday!
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Layonara Server / Apologies for quest on Friday
« on: October 17, 2008, 09:41:24 am »
My apologies for Quest on Friday, I forgot to put in the times from the world clock. Although the quest will be the same next week, (and I have put the world clock times there), I'll be hanging around in the weekend watching ;-)
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General Discussion / Guess who is back?
« on: March 11, 2008, 05:33:31 am »
Well for the last few weeks I have been making the move to Wellington. Life has been a bit hectic and things are settling down as I get into the swing of things.

I'll be back as a GM and my characters shortly, moreso in the weekends than the weekdays. But I look forward to coming back.

There are two Yankee folks at work, one is from Seattle and the other is from Texas so they do constantly remind me of the Layonara community for the most part. :)
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General Discussion / Happy Birthday Lynn1020!
« on: December 19, 2007, 05:00:43 pm »
I'll be the first to start off with saying "Happy Birthday"!
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Roleplaying / Level of Roleplay and perhaps some suggestions
« on: November 02, 2007, 11:35:47 am »
Coming from a DM point of view and from more recently a player's point of view, I have seen the level of Roleplay for most people in the community improve compared to a while ago whether it is from  adventuring  RP to just some people sitting in small pockets Roleplaying. To me that is refreshing.

Some recommendations to enhance the immersion. When emoting something  instead of saying something like "raises an eyebrow as if to say that he is not happy with you because you did x" cut the emote back to "raises an eyebrow angrily". If the person asks what it was for, perhaps get them to do roll a check and give them relevant info from that.

I have found that giving a check and basing my character response off that check makes the game more interesting. Mind you this is not to say that I make every single emote there is a dice check, but at key moments it does add something interesting to the mix of things.

Apart from that, well done on this. I always watch out when I am out there, and love to see RP happening.
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General Discussion / A post to the community regarding DM encounters
« on: June 21, 2007, 05:02:45 pm »
Hello all,

Please note that this post is the opinion of me alone and does not represent what others on the team. This post is just to clarify something that I have noted while I have been on as GM especially when I have been providing custom encounters to the party. I would like to state that to me being a DM means providing an entertainment for players. This is either by quests or providing dynamic encounters through challenge.

I don’t have an issue of people requesting a Soul Strand. Nor do I have a problem with people thinking that "perhaps this encounter has unfair". That is in your player’s right to make a request or to have thoughts like that. What I have a problem with is when players have the mindset that because they have faced a losing situation or your character has died that the DM is out to punish them. I hear things like "What did we do wrong?" "Oh we must have got someone out there angry".

For me I would normally never use spawns or even overpowered spawns to police a situation or because I am angry at the players. Instead you are going to receive a tell saying that we need to have a little chat. Getting a GMs attention for 20 minutes filled with creatures encounters and mayhem or more at a time is a privilege  and not a punishment.

It is sad to see that the playerbase view the DMs in this way. I want to say that as far as I am concerned, getting a custom (harder) encounter from me is because I want to spice up an experience or because I feel happy of what is happening in regard to RP. You will also find that the encounter will be suited in for your tastes. If you are at the inn, during a player event, you aren't going to see monsters instead perhaps you are going to talk to the bartender or the waitresses or whoever...to make the experience better.

That is also why after each encounter where you are safe I will spawn in just to let you know that I hope everyone had fun *regardless* of the outcome and that is because I did it for your enjoyment. There are however times when we as DMs spawn things to keep things in the Lore of the World. But in those circumstances I will notify you about that too.
 
Much Respect,
  Tanman

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Roleplaying / Creature interactions
« on: May 05, 2007, 02:31:10 am »
I would like to tell a story that I totally made up. I use it to hopefully make a point  about monster interaction.
 
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Our story starts in Middle Earth, inside the Prancing Pony. It’s a beautiful evening Berham the innkeep is doing very good business.  Some of the Fellowship are there…Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli. They are all having a nice drink.
 

All of sudden the door bursts open and a party of Goblin’s, Orcs and a Uruk Hai saunter in. . .with axes and swords at their sides…they look like a ferocious bunch. Every one looks around scared apart from the fellowship. The Uruk hai walks up to the barman and says “Drink!”..Berham at this point is terrified, but the Fellowship group are quite calm and eventually Aragorn is the first to stand and make his way over to the bench where the goblins, Orcs and Uruk Hai are.
 

“Is there a problem?” Aragorn muses at Berham. Berham at this point is wide eyed looking at the Orcs terrified out of his skull. He doesn’t know what to do.
  Aragorn turns to the creatures and as he does so Legolas and Gimli also walk up and stand by his side. Aragorn is the first to speak. “Hiiiiiiiiiiii! Welcome to the Prancing Pony! How was your journey? I am very sure that are doing well!” . He slaps his hand on the shoulder of the Uruk Hai. Gimli is the next to speak.  “Hey up laddy. How are yer doing? Yer look pretty weary to me…it must be the long day of travel from yer abode in Mordor. It would seem….” Legolas interrupts “From those markings and those tracks and your travels it would seem that you have relinquished your evil and chaotic nature from Sauron and Sauraman. Please. Please take a seat.” The whole lot of them take a seat and Aragorn is the first to go up to Berham to buy some drinks. The barkeep is still scared out of his wits but he manages to hand him the beer and ale for all the party.
 

By this time the whole lot of the Orcs, Uruk Hai, and Goblins are chatting merrily and the drinks really hit the spot with most of them. Gimli is the first one to speak after all of them have gone through many drinks.  “Hee up Laddy, would you care to go with us to the Lonely Mountain and such. I have heard that there are treasure to be told there especially with the dragon with the name called Smaug. Would yer like to come with us?” The

Uruk Hai in his response snarls a “Yes”.
 

So the whole lot of them stand and pack their belongings making an adventure going to the Lonely Mountains to seek treasure and kill creatures.
 


  If anyone can find any sense in that fictious story please explain it to me.  I am hoping I get a few snickers, but in all seriousness I do see this going on in Layonara. I will have a gander and say that for some people they want to stay friendly IC to everybody because that way everyone will  treat them as a friend OOC and IC.

 
  There is nothing wrong showing hostility towards a monstrous races (in character of course). It helps with the immersion of the world and make for some interesting RolePlay. Please note though…this is no excuse to make personal attacks OOC to somebody. Everything stays IC. Also this also doesn’t mean that things can’t change in terms of the creature’s reputation. But in general, if the creature is not well known, and it looks scary...and monstrous. I think it should be Roleplayed as such.
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I thought I would like to highlight something in the scheme of things. That is this is primarily  a Roleplay Server and as such there are  a diverse number of personalities here ranging from the normal personalities to the quirky. There are times when there are good alignments and evil alignments.
  As such, not everyone is going to be normal...not everyone is going to be good and be helpful or be polite.  

What I am concerned about is that some people do take this personally and such that their characters reactions or the overall party may react OOCly, sometimes in a negative way and against what their characters are about...that the player has to change their character whole demeanour just so that they can join within groups or meet with new people. I think this is very sad, because it is losing part of what Layonara is about. That we lose the interaction between different types of personalities.  I enjoy now roleplaying with people with quirky/nasty personalities because it means I can fully RP my character how they would act and enjoy the reactions.

Now granted. . .there are going to be cases where where there maybe some characters that do reject the said person...and that maybe reflected IC. I accept that. I guess what I am trying to say is that when playing your character...don’t take offence when a character does act like that...and act as what your character would respond rather than what you will respond.

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General Discussion / Emotes
« on: April 19, 2007, 09:24:05 pm »
I remember when I first came onto Layonara there was the emotes such as "point" "fold" and "curl", where the characters would do something

Since the update they have mysteriously disappeared. Is this hardcoded into the NWN patch...?

Would be nice to have them back in game if at all possible.
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Introduce Yourself / The Tan
« on: March 27, 2007, 06:31:35 am »
Hi everybody, I thought that I would jump on the bandwagon and introduce myself.  Unlike the majority of who mainly come from Australia, US or Canada, I come from across the Tasman, New Zealand.  I live in the North Island of New Zealand, in what you might consider to be a relatively small city of Hamilton. My name is Wei-Yen Tan pronounced “Way Yen”
  I enjoy a range of activities especially travelling. One day I hope to visit Canada to see one of my friends who immigrated there a while ago. I am working on getting him into Layonara as well. ;)



  I discovered Layonara at the end of June and I have not looked back. Layonara was my first experience of an online world, and before I started playing I did not think highly of the MMORPG genre thinking that they might have the poor standards of role-play that are exhibited in other games such as most areas of World of Warcraft. :rolleyes:

 
  I was pleasantly surprised that Layonara is not that at all. Although, there is a lesser population than what other MMORPG have, it is instead replaced by an experience that is rich in nature and immersive. I have since joined the team and having done so, come to appreciate more the effort that Leanthar and his team put into this world.

 
  I have made a great lot of friends in Layonara and   hope that we do hope to meet each other in-game eventually. You can find a picture of me below. Post any questions and I will try to answer them as best I can.
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