Marlon P.

This submission only documents what exists mechanically, except for the credits being explained. I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

The biggest incongruity between Aurora's lore and its gameplay is its dystopic setting. The lore has it set up that we live in the worst period of capitalism. Megacorporation's dominate society and brutalize us physically or psychologically. The SCC is an exploitative entity beyond the authority and has subsumed entire governments into its corporate apparatus. Sentient lives are just cogs in the machine where all economic activity exists solely to make a small minority of people rich. But on station things are pretty lit. We have free healthcare. We have homes provided to us with modern amenities. Mass transit shuttles us to-and-from work for free. Food and drink are provided. We don't have to "look busy" and can take extended breaks to socialize if we're not actively needed for something. There are safety features to keep people safe. And the most glaring and unrealistic element of the whole thing is that even Heads of Staff are held accountable by CCIA. All of this has no precedent within lore as coming from labor agitation or progressive governments forcing the corporation to do it. Because as far as I know, "The Left" as we know it has no representation within the lore outside fringe elements. Definately not enough to justify mega-corporations more powerful than any in-character government just giving us universal healthcare. That and other worker-friendly aspects of the game - which have to exist so our players are not infuriated constantly - were provided by NanoTrasen of their own free will. This, at best, is incredibly unrealistic. At worst it's a belief that megacorporate monopolies can intrinsically be forces of good. This incongruity should be resolved. A long time ago I pushed to resolve it by representing the lore on the station. One I remember is advocating that medical care come with financial charges to our accounts. This method of resolving the inconsistency was not popular (rightly so) but nothing else really came of it. The server needs to have a reckoning on what level of harrowing dystopia it wants to represent. All the pieces are present for "a flawed by hopeful society" that would match the elements of our gameplay flow and on-station evidence. This would also give a stronger reason for why everyone swarms Tau Ceti - if people simply wanted reliable jobs, there are plenty of solar systems that offer that. Something like the American Dream, but in space. Otherwise something should be done, I think. It's something I've noticed for a long time, but it seems any reconciliation of this prime contradiction is pushed back against - but the status quo is really weird and shouldn't be popular either.

Like DnD's Lifestyle Expenses?

The destruction of the Alliance has added nine additional factions to your workload. That's nine factions that need a history, main planet or location, a description of what life is like there, its general demographics, economy, how its people get to Tau Ceti, its ideology, its relationship with other warlords as well as alien races, its military, the state of its war with the other warlords, its criminal elements, its general aesthetic.... Then you have the main human factions: Elyra, the remnant of Sol, Dominia... Each one of these factions, no matter how popular, by the nature of existing has a mandatory minimum amount of detail required to justify them being named and mentioned on the wiki. "Human lore" is only one team, but you have the workload that would feasibly need to be broken up into 9 distinct teams. The entire original purpose of locking down the Alliance and The Frontier One (that keeps getting renamed) as "the" human factions and being bashful about adding in more was entirely because the human lore team can get stunlocked into developing a single faction for a prolonged length of time and other places start to atrophy. What do you do after you rehaul Elyra, and then have to rehaul the 9+ factions? Then by the time you're done with that, you'll need to rehaul them again, then again, then again. Vestigial elements of human lore will always be present, and you will never, ever catch up on the workload you're given. At least, I've never seen it happen. And that was with a vastly reduced amount of human factions. How can a deputy loremaster assist the human lore development in not being trapped in maintenance hell, without throttling its growth, and even working to gobble up the warlords into a singular entity again? Do you believe the current status quo is maintainable with your current manpower? Can you even handle major events and lore arcs while also constantly keeping all this up to date? You blew up your space western cowboy planet of Mars - I don't wanna hear it! Lol just teasing. We have fun here. In serious: The general vibe of this is addressed in this OC thread, outlining a policy that was more or less maintained a long time. Not sure about now. Human space is divided into four rough sections. Sol, the Inner Colonies, Mid Colonies, Outer Colonies, and the Frontier. [...] The Inner Colonies are like the suburbia of Alliance space [...] The Mid Colonies are like the small towns surrounding the major city and suburbia that is the center of Alliance space [...] Outer Colonies are the fringe of Alliance control [...] The Frontier are systems completely independent from the Sol Alliance. The political state of the Frontier is in constant flux, as the uncountable nations, large and small, wax and wane [...] Each 'sphere' of human space is meant to provide such a general vibe that any planet or faction can slot anywhere at any point in time. In addition, being in the alliance means you don't have to worry about international relations, the military, or a unique set of laws. You have the general overview, you put across its aesthetics, and boom you have a background for characters to come from. Fads for factions come and go, and a planet or system is so much easier to maintain than an entire stellar nation. So I'd ask again - how are you supposed to keep up with all of this? How can a deputy loremaster coordinate this? That is why the buck should stop with the loremasters and head developer, as it always has. I agree wholeheartedly. That is why the work of maintenance needs to be diminished. Have you had many opportunities to oversee things you are truly passionate about since KOTW? What are the developments in humanity that bring you joy? I want you to express your creativity and drive, as with everyone else, but the systemic issues in how human lore is developed will continue to gobble up your time. I have seen it happen live and I do not want to see it continue. I saw this happen over a timescale that will become "a decade" sooner rather than later. I can now identify the why and how, as well as the why and how of how to fix it. I am confident that there is only a misunderstanding in what I am advocating. I am not saying I will chain you to every random DM or lore question. Only that you are better able to achieve the two goals of: Making a player with an idea or suggestion feel heard. Allocate your time and efforts wisely. Listening is the cheapest thing you can gift someone. For example, if you did read something, you could ask a follow-up question about something listed and get them to make a forum thread. Or at minimum mention you're busy and encourage them to post about it on the forum to get input so you can get to it later without it being lost in discord. In this case you have shown an interest (feigned or otherwise - even if the feigning is just you wanting to get to it "later") and also encouraged them to do something active and productive. And with it being a forum thread, you can even find it more easily than a discord comment. And a more active forum means more people come to the forum, which means more players make forum accounts. Which feeds a positive cycle of growth. And do you think you'll have the time to engage with players on things like If you had a big bulk of your maintenance work lifted? I apologize if I come off like I'm advocating abolishing the class system of lore developers entirely. I agree and sympathies with practically everything you've posted. I do not believe that encouraging player involvement in the manners I plan to will constitute a threat to your prerogatives, because at the bare minimum it's just a manner of turning someone down in a way that doesn't come off as dismissive and rude.

Type (e.g. Planet, Faction, System): Wiki page. Economy / hyperlinked from other key words like "Credit" or whatever else keywords people would look up this information. Short Description: This page returns the removed Economy page and Finances pages but consolidates all their information in a more accessible way. The values should still be the same from the first time they were added; the modifiers weren't removed I believe but just renamed. The formatting of wiki pages on the forum looks atrocious so each section is spoiled. However I did change the Credit entry because its original implementation was very messy. How will this be reflected on-station?: This tracks what is mechanically present, and will help people characterize the abstract concepts of our in-game money system and how it relates to lore. Does this addition do anything not achieved by what already exists?: It documents what exists and adds the lore to it. I do not have access to my old resources and data and so I can't extrapolate a Living Expenses list. That will have to be done by others. Do you understand that the project may change over time in ways that you may not foresee once it is handed over to the Lore Team? Yeah. Long Description: == The Credit == == Payscales ==

I like rhe character and you have a good story for her. I would only ask how she feels about the religious aspects of autakh and their rituals. Autakh are more than people who put on prosthetics; they have an entire theology around the body and its relationship with prosthetics. How did she experience those and how does she think of them? Is she convinced that the soul can survive metal?

I don't believe someone should be compelled to resign a maintainer role to become deputy or loremaster. Every time they've regretted it. I dont think alberyk should either. Still +1

Here are the things that should require Head Developer approval to change in canon. Obviously antags that arent canon can do whatever. As deputy i will push for this list: TIme travel. It's impossibility or conditions of use. Ftl. The methods that exist for our setting, known ICly or otherwise. The number of meaningful dimensions. (Mechanically we have three. Ours, bluespace, and whats behind the veil - aka redspace) Phoron. How it works. Playable Alien races. (Already exists) The entity(s) we work for. Changing these changes the entire setting and can cause reality itself to break down or just make a massive headache for the future.

Player ran initiatives and newspaper will not feud with established lore. Remember that newspapers are not precognitient; if a paper is contradicted it can roll with it. Itll be a great way to teach improv! The scale will also be smaller. The newspaper will be contained to the NBT ship itself. See this thread: "Stories on a Captain who recently crashed the ship into an asteroid, stories about an off-screen party to celebrate someone's birthday, the canon obituaries, wedding announcements, interviews with crew, biting editorials about some subject or another, announcement of impending cooking contests... With these tools players will have a great ability to run their own little media eco-system. After 20 days stories are archived, no longer visible on the in-game newscaster but accessible via the Aurora-WI in an archive." Ill touch on the rest later. Great post sherman and zelmana

Im already on the forums in my own app and saw this posted. I strongly agree with all your goals and plans. You have a dedication and work ethic exemplified in your dual roles as admin and lore maintainer for tajara. I echo everything you've said. +1

A fantastic post @SatinsPristOTD; my only refutation is that to my memory i never played Uriel Evans nor any warforms. Also wow what an aggressive tone i had in this complaint. The end result (policy on lying to ccia being implemented) could have been reached without acting like that. Something must have been going on to put me in a sour mood. Still, no excuse for that!

I want more than lore canonization. I want event volunteer, i want players suggesting events, i want players setting up persistent little arcs that the staff can acknowledge and facilitate. I've noticed that the server has fallen into a trend of events happening and being self contained.... then once thats over its ss13's disconnected round to round to round. I say pie charts partially to be facetious. After the antag contests i remember big google polls that were very helpful for everyone and informed discussions with emperical findings. And informed future development. Its more inclusive a set of findings thn a single post-game poll. I haven't proposed more rigid oversight about existing articles - ive offered to do myself what only the tajaradevs have done with going over the articles. It will be easier and more convienent for the lore team. There's been a lot of frustration about the workload required in dealing with the articles - i did most of the bulk of that work in two weeks. Where i do comment on future articles, the rigidity is that they be given a clear purpose. Cael is already doing this and my proposal is basically falling in line right with Cael. The only thing I'd reinforce is that where it makes sense we need to see impacts from galaxy shaking events on station. I agree! It's not all in the past. I hope that you may notice my efforts on "the past" are to address complaints already here. It's going to happen with or without me. I'd love to stop having to address the past. It rapidly loses its appeal How should I address yearly reboots of core server logic regarding phoron and bluespace? How should I address lore developers using rude and demeaning words when talking about peoples work, or asking lore questions? How should i address conduct that makes me feel belittled; not to mention others? (Yes i got bored already)

Aggressive? What do you mean by that? And how should behavior you say you see in me be addressed when exhibited by people already in the team? Say i actually got the position. What should be done about it, policy-wise?

A fantastic reply Lucaken! You're getting the gears in my head moving. I will reply to your reply when I am back from my trip out of state. Or if I get bored while out of state enough to tap on my phone for a million years (I am slow with texting). Thank you!

omg then I have no idea. the only time i played a mobster was like in 2015. I think Obama was still president, so it couldn't have been too far into 2016. Anyway my apology still stands. If it turns out it wasn't me it doesn't change anything about my philosophy regarding IC behavior. Also again, please have all future posts quote something I said in my OP about my plan of action or criticisms.

Ahhh! Work and school is out; slow down people! Lol @Chada1I agree I'd like concrete examples but remember to not diminish someone's feelings about something. They are an expert on themselves and I can't really disprove that they felt a certain way with facts and logic. Ohhhh wow this was forever ago. I think.... This was.... When I was a unathi VIP or something... And I had been roughed up by sec and my character, a proud old unathi, got all mad about it to cover for the fact he had some mcguffin or whatever. I apologize if it seemed malicious or mean or whatever was going on with my attitude. I only get adrenaline rushes from combat, not bureaucratic processes. If I was mad at CCIA I'd just file a complaint. But I literally have no idea. Unless there's a complaint or something to jog my memory I can't recall this. But I apologize that my behavior came off as inappropriate. It may please you to know that my thinking of IC and OOC behavior has evolved - I not longer believe that there is a separation of IC and OOC, and that IC'ly people must be treated with a modicum of respect. Unless they consent to being treated like trash or something - there are people that do. My epiphany about this was in.... I think it was in 2018??? I was being rude and demanding to this IPC bartender as a bigoted Unathi and got told later that it really hurt the player's feelings. After reflecting I had my proto beliefs on "No seperation between IC and OOC" and it really cemented itself as an actual philosophy when I started researching for how to DM DnD, where this is a common refrain in DM circles: "That's what my character would do". It's a statement excusing bad behavior or a statement of ignorance on how our roleplay still affects the person behind the screen. It's so hard for apologies to seem sincere when it's over text, and I really don't want to sound corporate about it: I am really sorry that I showed bad behavior in that incident, and in any similar situation. And I believe that the best apology is never doing whatever I have to apologize for again, and you can be confident that I'll do my best to not repeat that behavior. If I do I strongly encourage you to call me out and remind me that I made this promise. I tried! I got rejected. The other person wasn't a lore developer either. As a Loremaster I loved hiring fish out of water. I'm both a fish out of water and a deeply experienced veteran. I'm the alpha release and season 8 DLC all in one! 😎 But I actually reject your premise I think: I have contributed a lot. I'm cataloguing and indexing every single news article ever posted on the forum. No one else had done that for the entire year I was gone. And I've submitted about half a dozen lore canonization threads. I've also suggested several overhauls to major game systems. Being around for eight years and following developments closely I don't feel the need to fill a quota. But I'll play more if accepted. OK I think that got everyone. Now that I've gone over old behavior (EDIT: At time of posting) I ask a favor that if anyone posts again to quote at least ONE plan of action I've outlined and give your thoughts on it. Dialogue and engage with all parts of my app

I looked into the conversation. It was in 2019. It was in the main lore_channel. The conversation involved me publically talking about strong backlash I received from some lore developers accusing me of "erasing western european identity" because I told the scarab developers to have them hail from regions that do not already have origin locations. That means not western europe or "The west" which is well represented in lore. It was an attempt to create a more diverse setting. I remember now the 11/10 bare knuckle brawl from some lore developers who adamantly insisted I was planning on eliminating western european cultures from the canon. Then this comment annoyed me: So I sassed back, While Person A is the only available expert on the feelings of person A, it seems like they didn't take the comment deeply personally. But this wasn't a one sided bullying session; I agree with Lore Developer B's criticism mostly. Trying to make an inclusive setting is difficult and you have to set up the arbitrary lines somewhere. I at the time just decided to mandate inclusion from non-western sources to try and break down the cultural monolith of our setting. Was I rude? Probably; that's for person A to tell me. That Person A is not DanseMacabre, but I understand that you can still find behavior problematic even when not the recipient of it - see me complaining in the OP about the same thing. I personally think I was rude. If I could go back in time with my current state of mind I'd sit the developers in revolt down and tell them how to express their criticisms, and if it kept up just fire them. I made a map showing origin locations, deleting regions that already have a lot of cultural presence, for scarabs to choose from. I think at the time Eridani wasn't still really a big thing. I think it was though. I can't remember. But I denied an origin from Argentina because I found it to be a troll app. So why did I even include it if I didn't want the chance to see it? God I must have been so annoying to deal with the night this map dropped. This was probably after that angry arguing about my vendetta against the West in the staff lore channel. EDIT: The person who raged against me for my vendetta against the West was later removed from staff and banned for bad behavior.

What would you like me to do, Danse?

Oh also through only my own personal interests not as-yet coinciding with their development i cant say much on the other three races of vaurca, skrell, and synthetics. If accepted it will take me about a week and a half to go over all of them, engage with the developers, and make any evaluations.

Edit: posting from my phone cut out half my list. Heres most of my reconstructed plan of action for my first 4 months. I want to create aggressive polling efforts to as many players as possible in a way that emulates our old surveys for events, using google documents, so we can get some pie graphs. This survey will poll on how players view lore and end with open ended written response questions on how we can improve and how they would want to contribute as players. While thats running i will finish indexing all news articles in all threads not done already. Lore developers will be given time to go over them. I might streamline the process by letting them check off articles in a checklist so they can flag them as sus for a review. After this i will run an in-service on proper behavior when approaching a conversation with disagreements. Loredevs will sign off on these. Inservices will then be ran as-needed. When that's over i will announce the player ran news initiative and push on that front. When the above are done i will circle back around to the survey and host public discussions on the responses provided and publically publish all the results. The primary goal is facilitating a mammoth shift in server culture to get bottom-up involvement. I want so many people volunteering and contributing that we get overwhelmed and the problem is too MUCH rather than too little. While thats going on I will work on what i and Cael determine to be The Basics of the lore, lock them down, and forbid them from being changed without head developer approval. After this is all settled (eta 2 or 3 months) i will work with human development to repair the inconsistencies and empty spaces. The trend of adding factions that are then abandoned within a year ends in 2022. When these major projects wrap up i will indefinitely continue evaluating and directing lore efforts as needed.

I remember that Lordfowl article. I was wondering if i dreamed the entire thing. @Arrow768 should look into that subforum issue. Thanks in advance! Thanks king! Edit Also i like the new biesel parties. I only asked at the time if it was an ic change or a retcon cuz i play a reporter who would talk about it. I did give constructive criticism on how it can be I improved imo. This ties into my plan of action about territorialism/pushback against criticism.

This is terrible! An absolute disaster. It needs to be addressed immediately. I do wish I had been more firm with developers in the past about this. Bear in mind I was doing things that were entirely new, and no one really knew the best way to do it until we got into the groove. I have and will always push for experimentation and new experiences because complacency and stagnation bore me. But worrying about what could have been is a waste of time - I've identified the issues and know the solutions now, which means they can be implemented immediately. I've already done a big chunk of that as a regular player. You can see in the general forum I've indexed every single news article for several of the news stations, with hyperlinks. For Unathi I've written an entire chronology for their entire history from their first article to their last and submitted it to the unathi lore team to go over and decide what to do with. I've been doing it in my spare time as volunteer work. If it was my actual hobby responsibility every single news article would be indexed, catalogued, reviewed, and submitted to the wiki in a timeline or put in the retcon subforum within 7 days of my acceptance. A year ago I'd say 3 days, but I've got other hobbies now. My plan - - is to do as I said in my list of plans: Because: I agree! This circles back around to preventing the internal logic of the setting from being retconned every year. I don't care if narrative changes sees a new political order sweep into power every year, but geeze, bluespace and phoron haven't had stable canon for more than a year in our entire server's development. That's bad. It sounds like we agree on pretty much all the meat, but that you believe I'm obsessed with preserving the old order. That's not true; I'm only interested in internal consistency that players veteran and new can follow. This however, is our only point of disagreement: I cannot help that mankind was set adrift in an absurd world, and that a realistic setting has to portray some element of that absurdity in order to feel grounded. But even in that case if it really does draw people out then I'm fine with not bringing attention to that stuff. I'd rather talk about plans for the future and not dwell on the past. We're here arguing about stuff that's like, three or four years old at this point. The legend of these articles have really, astronomically outpaced their actual impact.

Ckey/BYOND Username: marlonphoenix Position Being Applied For: Deputy Loremaster. Have you read the Lore Team Rules and Regulations wiki page? Yes. Past Experiences/Knowledge: I was the previous Loremaster and unathi lore developer for six years. I've spent years researching the meta of RP communities for the purpose of making Aurora better. I'm a lot smarter than I was six years ago, too. Examples of Past Work Please see attached. It's a long list. I set up the rules asked about in the above, too. I also invented the New Kingdom of Adhomai when i rebooted them post-hive. Criticism of the current state of lore: After a year long haitus I returned and reminisced about old lore, and asked questions about what has changed. This was met with hostility and contempt. Two lore developers posted on my previous app saying I was a bad pick that would drag us back into the dark ages of the old lore. I've also seen old lore called "dogshit", "bad", "terrible", and the writers who under me wrote with passion and creativity having their work belittled. However, right after the burst of creativity from the KoTW arc the wider lore apparatus has gotten really messy, so I have no idea where this rude sense of superiority manifests from. I asked a lore question in the lore questions subforum on if ATLAS, a previous major party integral to the KOTW arc, was still canon. I got insulted and told the answer was obvious. Then people started disagreeing about the answer. Then a human developer said he'd have to think about it, and a little bit later said it was canon "for now". Other lore questions get inconsistent answers. The basics of the setting are both canon and non-canon depending on who you ask. Entire arcs that set the foundation of what we have now are called non-canon blithefully by players and lore developers but there's no indication that steps were taken to make them so. There are rules about retconning and a process to it but i've seen lore developers tell players to "ignore" stuff that developer doesn't like. This is the exact same state of affairs we had just before my tenure as loremaster, and I'm getting flashbacks to 2013. It's going to get worse. This makes me sound like the biggest negative nancy in the world. There's a whole lot of great content, but nothing's perfect. But I'd like to keep working towards perfection. Consider this application a wishlist of what I want to see. Because of the threat that I'd get the position to implement these, this thread should no doubt garner a lot of discussions about the problems I've outlined. That said, here are my personal solutions: A brief note (such as a roadmap with additional descriptions) identifying the course and creative direction that you'd hopefully like to pursue: Here is the plan of action I will take as the deputy loremaster. Catalogue, index, and review all news articles to put on the wiki in coherent timelines. This was already done in my capacity as a regular player for the unathi team, who are now going over it. The Tajara team as well has diligently done this for the Tajara news and arcs. All others will be gone over and elements retconned just archived. We need a fresh slate and a fresh news subforum without throwing things into disarray with errant retcons based on personal feelings. Handle retcons in the way they were meant to be. Retcons when possible should be done IC'ly to serve a triad of purposes. Making the world feel lived-in and dynamic. Bringing attention to the change. Making the change feel natural so players don't feel a forced abruptness and disarray, and gives them time to adjust to the change. Where this isn't possible, loudly and transparently explain the change to the entire playerbase. No more "ignore it". No more arguing. Lock down the foundations of the setting and take it out of developer's and Loremaster's hands. The number of FTL methods. The nature of phoron. How FTL works. Anything immediate and viscerally necessary for the basic logic of our universe. If a developer wants to change those they should convince the Head Developer. The number of retcons and rewrites on our universes' basic internal logic is unacceptable and needs the input of a Head Developer. Players having to ask basic questions sparks arguments. Individual desires and goals from lore developers about a lore disagreement leads to confusion for players. This is technically sustainable but it's a pain in the ass for everyone involved. Encourage player initiative and engagement. Most immediately: encourage a player-ran newspaper with basic oversight. Something small scale. Despite being gone for an entire year, the forum and in a lesser sense public discord's lore channels remain dominated by the same handful of names from a year ago. We need to find out what interests the new generation of players and sucker them into feeling validated and invested enough to start applying themselves to our lore development. The lackluster number of responses to open applications this time around is terrible and in my personal opinion a disaster. Each position should be hotly contested when it opens up. I want to see a million unfamiliar usernames flooding this forum and the discord. I will not be satisfied until there's 10 forum posts a day from accounts less than a week old. Identify and encourage every iota of interest shown by new or otherwise uninvolved players. Encourage and uplift them. NOW! Ban the phrase "Do it yourself". Engage with them and encourage them. Don't make us feel like unwanted pests. Slow down the proliferation of human planets and factions. The growth of the human factions and factions has become exponential. If the warlord factions of the wildlands are included the number of human factions outnumbers all the alien species' combined. Two of our races (Tajara and Unathi) each have less than three primary planets and they have more content than entire DnD campaign modules. We have a huge blank space in the canvas and it's humanity. Fill that stuff in before going hog-wild. Enforce civility and respect. I've witnessed abrasive behavior from some lore staff towards players. Lore developers carry authority and how they treat players has a disproportionate impact on our server's culture. Nothing anyone does here is worth investing enough of our identities into that it makes us berate someone else. Everyone deserves to feel respected. What you believe you can bring to the team as Deputy Loremaster: Over half a decade of experience in administration. Eight cumulative years of observing Aurora and other roleplaying communities for the purpose of researching how to make Aurora better. Additional comments: My last application for a simple and no-authority position as unathi deputy where I said I didn't want to do anything except write articles and wiki pages for the race caused a lot of fearmongering about my sweeping authority and power if I were to take the position. So here is the worst case scenario: Everything I will do with the power of lore administration. I said in my deputy unathi thread that I'm not interested in the wider lore direction. This is still kinda true. I don't care what direction the lore goes in from a narrative standpoint, but I did change my mind in the other sense: if I have a chance to fix the systemic problems present here then I'd love the shot. Worst thing that happens is I'm rejected and return to pointing out the problems without the authority to fix them. Even if rejected, I will also keep asking questions about the lore whenever I please. Because it interests me, and I want it to interest others. A critical eye and open mind is the best tool for creativity and collaboration. If a creator isn't being challenged in a respectful way then that creator isn't benefitting from the best they can be. Also, stop talking like I'm an old man when talking about my contributions! I felt like an old man being put out to pasture in my last application!

I think barring horns and ears makes sense if for the in-universe reason that it's offensive.

Oh thats very good.