Lmwevil Vaurca Chaduty App

[Lmwevil]

Ckey/BYOND Username: Lmwevil 

Position Being Applied For: (Species Maintainer, Wiki Maintainer, Lore Developer, Deputy Lore developer): Vaurca Lore Deputy

Have you read the Lore Team Rules and Regulations wiki page? Yes

Past Experiences/Knowledge:
/tg/ admin for several years (event running included) (defunct due to inactivity, welcome back on request)
GMed ttrpgs for over a decade
Have written my own universe and made a converted version for RPG usage that has undergone many rewrites.
Literature passion for my entire life along with way way way too much lore from different settings that I dedicate to memory for no good reason.
Assistance with the Diona lore team on numerous projects.
The combined knowledge of everything that isn’t Skrell lore or recent Dominian lore (because my brain can’t absorb Dominian lore after the rewrites it just keeps mixing old and new) within my noggin.
Occult rituals of blood sacrifice to the typewriters to allow me to overcome writer's block.

Examples of Past Work:

Many commissioned pieces of code for Aurora for Diona and some pending for Vaurca waiting on Git (also some human). Some other things as an aside, I could bring them up but it’s a huge pain and I don’t wanna.

In terms of actual writing I’ll leave the player handout I made that has some concepts a normal character would know in my world of Niteri that I’ve been writing for way too long.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7H4e32kvp2gzsp2muAlMqhqs7ujRlnYp3PqLArLYX4/edit

Doughnut steal Niteri or I will step on your toes. Jk go ahead, most of the lore isn’t in the handout, that’s the brief limited player knowledge :^)

 

Additional Comments:
Personally first and foremost I don’t understand why the other applicants didn’t apply with this as the primary premise. The Vaurca pages have some of the most integral and curious lore on the wiki, but they are plagued with a lack of formatting, grammar issues and spelling errors/inconsistencies. I’d make it my first priority to fix it all and make it much more digestible for newer players to see the race and understand them.

Secondarily in terms of additions, Vaurca aren’t in need of sweeping additions and instead I think what matters more is things like how the Phoron scarcity is changing their society and individual hives. Since it’s been debated that K’ois create Phoron anymore that would also have to be updated, with some other kinds of lore like their homeworld having natural Phoron and thus when it bled out the atmosphere there weren't just stellar genetically sterilizing rays to handle but also those complexities.

It would also then add in a big reason for VR to take off as an addition without detracting from the original intent: that being that while in VR they require substantially less to maintain, and thus consume little Phoron on their long long journey.
 

[Caelphon]

Can confirm, Lmevil has assisted the Dionae Team numerous times.

I'd like phrase a few situations/questions for you to answer, however.

1. Do you have any concerns with a possible difference in opinions or ideas with the rest of the team? 

2. What exactly do you believe will set you apart from the other applicants?

3. What do you plan on accomplishing in your 'reign' as Deputy? 

[Lmwevil]

1. Oh absolutely I'll have differences in opinion on things, however I think that is exactly the point. If I come onto the team I'll surely have some differences of opinion and said debates can lead to either nothing happening or the fleshing out of current ideas. If everyone just agrees the writing quality usually will suffer. I doubt it'll impede my ability to actually have relationships and communication though. 

 

2. I think it's my level of interest. The other applicants are clearly not invested in the lore in any of the same degrees, if they had actually read the lore to the degrees I have they would have noticed some glaring problems with grammar and formatting. Additionally I am extremely active on the lorecord, have a past of commissioning coders and even spriters to improve species. Additionally I'd like to say I have pretty good relations with the lore devs overall and with Jam and Rooster respectively. 

 

3. Lets do a check list

• Fix grammatical errors and some spelling inconsistencies
• Clarify how the Phoron shortage is affecting each queen and how the hives are adapting
• Assist with the writing of any new arcs, event suggestions and plotting
• Expand on the Bound slightly
• Clarify that Bound Warriors are warforms as per Rooster's ruling (bound warrior colour scheme just being clarified to bound warforms on each page)
• Keep Vaurca in the spotlight by making them respond in some ways to current events, new articles etc etc
• Probably way more as time goes on lets be honest

[Lmwevil]

Retracting, I got the coveted Diona lore slot to apply for, and have been even more interested in the based plants. 
 Stay truckin and probably will end up proposing those grammar fixes later