Admins, Storytellers, and Builders

Puffy

Admins, Storytellers, and Builders

The DM team is split into two categories, administration and storyteller.

The Admins handle player complaints, mediate disputes, handle bugs, build, and whatnot. They are also in charge of the server 'meta' and the 'metaplot'- essentially, when you see a pink admin get involved in IG events, big things are probably going to happen.

Storytellers handle the in game plots and arcs, as well as focus on the individual player They are denoted by an ugly orange on discord so no one can mistake them for something else. They do not cater to OOC complaints and mediate disputes, that is for admins to resolve. They possess NPCS, handle letters, vote on apps, and focus on the day-to-day management of the server.

Moderators: The blue role on discord, they provide discord tech support. They are not DMs. Don't talk to them for anything unless you need them to handle some asshole who is praising hitler and is being a fuckwit, and you cannot get ahold of an admin.

Summary:

Admins:

Have pink names on discord.
Handle player complaints and resolve bugs.
Mediate disputes between players and the dm team.
Possess Perma Ban Privileges.
Can do everything a storyteller can, plus some.
Fix bugs, build areas, etc...

Storytellers:

Do not engage in player OOC disputes, mediate OOC conflict, nor resolve OOC bugs (they can login and help with IC bugs).
They tell stories (duh), and will probably be the most inclined to help with your personal plots and story.
Do not Discord Ban or Moderation Privileges.
They can issue temporary Bans if rules are being broken and reason is not heard, subject to admin review.
Vote on Applications
Oversee PvP.

Builders:

Have Mod Access
Fix Module Bugs and help develop content.
Do not login as DMs.

The DM team is as follows:

ADMINS:

Puffy (Princess): TZ
Echo (Mom): TZ
Professor Misclick (the nice one): TZ
DoctorDeth (tech support guy): He isn't involved in anything about the server beyond the 10101001010101 that makes the server work. Don't message him about logging in to clear spawns or corpses. Unless the server's crashed and it won't come back up. TZ
Malice (scripting wizard): Puffy's slave, I mean husband. He's supporting CoA by creating or advising about scripts and core functions, don't message him. If you have questions/pointers about scripts, contact the Builder's Guild directly. TZ
Zool (honorary admin dude): Don't ask him for anything except summon moles. TZ
Haquin (Code Capybara): Resident Coding Wizard, No in game Presence so please don't bug him to get set up. TZ
Strawman (The eloquent one): TZ
Lord_Acerak (baby admin) TZ

Storytellers:

Matriarch: TZ
ManintheMist
Spiffy TZ
Primordial TZ

Admin and Storyteller Availability Template

Name
Active for IG Plots [Yes / No]
Active for admin stuff [Yes / No]
Usual timezone you are active in / or usual play times (A nice to have, not a need to have).

Lord_Acererak

@o-louth

Name Lord_Acererak, First-born of the Lich
Active for IG Plots [Yes]
Active for admin stuff [No], but i'll ping them if necessary.

I work in the Pacific Northwest. I am a vegetarian. I like long walks in the summer and camp often. I work alot, my current shift is Monday - Friday 7am-5pm, home usually around 5:30PM-6:00PM. An unfortunate aspect of my work is that my hours require me to be flexible. I get called in often, and I am on-call 2 weeks out of each month, plus covering others. It's not the healthiest of situations but they pay me enough to ignore that part. I have, as many of you know, stepped out on DM events as a cause of this. I do try to keep to the schedule, but unfortunately like a lot of DMs, RL > IG.

And I mean, it comes and goes. Up until late December there was no way I could properly maintain an adequate IG story due to the relationship I have with my job. I just wouldn't have been able to keep up with everything forum side. This has changed, we're good, for now, but ya know, keep in mind this could very well happen again.

TLDR; life happens but I try to keep to a schedule, IG after 5:30PM Pacific Mon-Fri, Weekends i'm open for discussion on start time. Happy to assist you Europeans there.

Puffy

Name Puffy, too many alias to list
Active for IG Plots [Yes]
Active for admin stuff [Yes]

Unlike Acer who works rather than lives, I live in Sweden aka Europe. I have a great love for heavily flawed characters, as well as people who execute the art of losing with elegant suffering. I'm also a hopeless romantic, loving to watch/read romantic stories unfold, but at the same time I cannot stand cringe for the life of me. My favourite thing is to watch characters rise from their failures, and grow further. Suppose I am a bit of a sadist, cause I just love watching suffering and the people who fight to survive. Honestly, I am open to most ideas as long as they are telling an engaging story for people.

Currently I mostly work from home(all hail IT privilege), so my IG time is pretty flexible. However, I was (finally) diagnosed with CPTSD and bulimia last year, whilst also realising I was a victim during my childhood thanks to the MeToo movement, so I am not as readily available as I would like to be due to trying to unravel my tasty real life adventure of trauma. But, I like to spice things up IG at random, and am always available to discuss booking time for an event within reason of course. Quoting Acer on this, I can confirm that these days I am choosing RL > IG a lot, cause taking care of your mental health is important.

Best time to catch me is between 6pm to 10pm UTC+1, however I can also lurk during other hours but that's less certain. Due to being an admin, I spend /a lot/ of time on the forums, being the fun police, resolve bugs, support Storytellers, discuss applications, discuss CoA goals, manage complaints, or make stuff in the toolset. So, whilst it isn't as visible, my post count keeps ticking up!

SpiffyMeister

Ideally:

Name: The Scum Lord
Active for IG Plots [Yes / No] (By appointment)
Active for admin stuff [Yes / No]
Usual timezone you are active in / or usual play times (A nice to have, not a need to have).

EST Afternoon ideally.

Echo

Name: Echo
Active for IG Plots [Yes / No]
Active for admin stuff [Yes / No]
Timezone: US Central

Prof. Misclick

Name: Professor Misclick
Active for IG Plots [Yes / No] (Needs to be scheduled)
Active for admin stuff [Yes / No]
Usual timezone: All over depending on real life early morning to to late night (MST)

Zool

Name: Zool
Active for IG Plots [No]
Active for admin stuff [No]
Timezone: UK GMT

I like competitive plotlines between player groups, ideally ones which don't -require- those groups ever even meeting in game (though that can be pretty cool) as this stops time zones being a problem.

I extremely rarely run events, but they come in two forms:

I spend a week (or more) building and scripting custom stuff, and it's either some kind of dungeon crawl, or some "DMless" plot anyone can interact with (that is normally competitive) -These ones normally affect the setting itself, or factions (player or DM) as opposed to individual characters.
I spot some players in game doing cool stuff, and run something "on the fly" - normally after telling at least one of the players in the group to slow whatever they are doing down a bit so I can do some pre-set up (these are normally the ones that directly affect individual character story lines)