Lorien Trust Blog

Shuttle from Derby Station UPDATE

Steve Lewis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:56:06 GMT

We regret to inform you that we will be unable to operate a shuttle from Derby station to this year's Summer Moot - this is due to driver and vehicle non-availability.

We have been in discussion with a local taxi firm, "75 Taxis", and have negotiated a £10 flat rate fare from Derby station to the event. Just call them on 01332 757575 to arrange pick-up, and be clear about whether you will be at the front door or the rear (Pride Park) door.

We will be operating the usual shuttle service to Derby station at the end of the event.

We apologise for any inconvenience, and thank you in advance for your understanding.

The Last Booking Deadline Of The Season Looms...

Chris — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:42:13 GMT

I would just like to remind all of our customers that the final booking deadline of this season is almost upon us...

The booking deadline is set for Wednesday 30th June. However, in light of the recent events that some of you have been waiting for the outcome to before booking, I will extend the booking deadline by a few days. If you still wish to pre-book for the remaining events, then I will hold the deadline until this weekend only . So please, if you wish to pre-book get your form to me and my team by this weekend and we will honour our deadline offers and allow you to pre-book you space.

Many thanks for your time,

Chris

Lorien Trust Head Office

Lorien Trust Official Statement regarding Pythia

Lorien Trust Head Office — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:23:56 GMT

This is the first opportunity that the Lorien Trust has had to comment on the potential attendance of Pythia at the Gathering 2010. We have only just managed today to commence normal office based business, following the take-down period at Locko Park following our previous events, so we have been unable to see and reply to the many posts on both our Forum and other web pages.

It was Lorien Trusts intention to add a poll to our website today, providing our customers with more details of the possibility of Pythia playing at the event, and to gain our Customers feedback, prior to making any firm decisions.

Due to circumstances out of our control, the Lorien Trust has been unable to discuss and poll our customers, prior to Pythia releasing their attendance and participation on their websites.

Following the results of our poll, we would have discussed the requirements with the relevant departments regarding the logistics required, should we go ahead with Pythia’s performance at the Gathering and any possible in-game impact, whist allowing our customers to give their feedback before making the final decision.

Due to the various reactions that have been created online to the discovery that Pythia may be playing at our event, some constructive enquiries, to confusion over the lack of Lorien Trust official communication and negative knee jerk reaction. An amazing amount of inflammatory speculation and comments surround this subject.

Lorien Trust feels that with this level of negative response and due to time constraints that we have no alternative but to not look further into this venture and therefore there will be no rock band or any other band playing at the Gathering. We already this afternoon discussed with Pythia our mutual concerns with not continuing this venture.

It is our intention to continually improve our customers experience at Lorien Trust events.

Our idea to allow Pythia to play a set at the Gathering would have been an opportunity for both Pythia fans and Lorien Trust customers to come together and do something they enjoy. Pythia and their fans were all to be in costume and spend the Gathering learning to role-play, for some of them this would have been an opportunity to attend a Lorien Trust event as an experienced role-player from other systems and MMORGs, as most new customers come to us from this sort of background.

The performance would be destined to be scheduled at a time that would mean it would have not finished too late in the evening as to disturb those customers with families. Pythia were aware that we are a family event and would have made sure that their performance was suitable with this fact and unlike the performance of the last Ceilidh that we had onsite, Pythia’s technicians along with our own would have made sure that the sound levels would be of a reasonable level and would not increase throughout their performance.

Lorien Trust also acknowledges the fact that there may have been some typos made on the Pythia website and forums badly explaining our pricing system. Fans of Pythia would have been able to book for our event as if they were any other new customer to our system, using the same offer that Lorien Trust has published for all new customers. This would have meant that they could have come to a Lorien Trust event for 50% discount (£30 if pre-booked before the deadline rather than £60 as an existing customer) and role-played like any other customer.

Lorien Trust did not offer Pythia fans any other discount or offer that was not already offered to existing or new customers.

Lorien Trust would like to apologise to our customers for any confusion and the lack of communication on this matter. We would also like to apologise to Pythia and its fans for any upset caused by stereotyping upon our forums or other media used.

Although the Lorien Trust applauds such a high level of activity from its customer base of avid players, protecting its system (if this was PVP we would never need monsters) we would hope that in future when we have polls and discussions we will also have such an active customer as it has been lacking in the past. The Lorien Trust feels disheartened that a minority of Larpers have themselves have caused a stereotyping of the hobby and its players.

Well that's the Spring Moot out of the way...

Chris — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:56:45 GMT

Well that's the Spring Moot out of the way...

...we are still busy beavering away on site, getting ready for the Great Erdrejan Fayre. Not to worry though, even though we are busy geting ready for the Fayre, we are still trying to process all of your bookings for the second two events.

We hope everyone who attended the Spring Moot enjoyed themselves and all of the new entertainment we laid on for you in the Bar. I personally enjoyed the group of female vocalists we had on Saturday and hope that if everyone else enjoyed them that we will be able to encourage them to return for another show.

Well I should get back to the grind.

Best wishes to you all,

Chris

Lorien Trust Event Organiser

Rules Recap

Peter — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:34:27 GMT

Due to a number of situations that occurred at the Spring moot, We have decided to recap on a number of rules, one newly introduced last year, and one which people may have missed in the Definitions part of the rulebook, and how it interacts with some changes as indicated in loresheets..

Terror

Terror Magical Special Effect

The target of this ritual level effect is targeted as if by a Fear spell, but it is not possible to resist it or to be immune to it unless a lammie or loresheet explicitly grants an immunity to or ability to resist Terror.

Regeneration (X)

The user recovers lost wounds at a faster rate, one hit per location is recovered every X time period. Any wound that could be normally recovered using the ‘Cure Wound’ or ‘Heal Wound’ effects can be regenerated. If this property is on an item, only wounds taken while wearing the item can be regenerated. If regeneration would recover a hit at exactly the same time as something else happens (e.g. Grace Period ends), the regeneration is considered to happen first. Silver damage cannot be regenerated.

Clarification of Silver Damage regeneration.

The above rule is the default for all forms of regenerations( i.e all silver damage must be cured/healed before the location can regenerate again). A Loresheet or Lammie may overrule this and give an alternate Penalty for Silver damage.

Changes to Sigils, Scrolls, and Alchemy for 2010

Peter Gorrell — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:40:01 GMT

Hi Peter here from the In-game office.

Over the last year we have been listening to a number of suggestions from you all on how items combine. As a result of the feedback we have received, we have decided that this year we are going to re-balance how people can combine items or effects. This will reduce the ability for characters to make themselves seem unkillable or invulnerable, as well as being able to bypass anyone else's protections. As part of this change we are adjusting how sigils, scrolls and potions work from the start of the Spring Moot this year.

Sigils

While Inactive (not yet cast) they have a power rating of 0, however when active they have a power rating of 1 (note this information will be indicated on the sigil card as well). If the total amount of power you are carrying goes above your current maximum limit to the point where Items stop working the effect will also stop, if the total reduces they will start working again. If you go over your limit to the point where Items would start being destroyed, All active Sigils (and associated effects) will expire (no damage caused), before any thing else.

Scrolls

All uncast scrolls have a power rating of 0 while being carried (unless they say otherwise). However some powerful scrolls create a Sigil effect when cast. As such they should then be counted as an active Sigil. (see above). It will indicate on the scroll if this is the case. Note, however, this does not affect scrolls that predate this change(i.e Old style Scrolls/Stickers).

Alchemy

Some Alchemical Preparations (potions/poisons/oils) created from 2010 and beyond may have a power rating above 0. This will be indicated on the front of the Lammie. When consumed or upon use, It will have the Power Rating indicated on the inside of the Lammie. Please note, all Alchemical Preparations with a Power Rating above 0 count as an "Active Sigil" for determining if it, or its effect stops working, or is destroyed earlier than its normal expiry, as described above.

Bookings...

Chris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:07:57 GMT

While we have been working on our test site to make sure that changes are correct before we put them on our live site, many of you have started to send in your bookings for this year. They have already started pilling up on our desk, but don't worry we have started to process them.

Those of you who have already sent in forms should start to see your return packs within the next week or two. If you start to get concerned that we may not have recieved your forms please contact the office on 01283 220 737 or email bookings@lorientrust.com and we will try to help you to the best of our ability.

Online Rule Book Uploaded

Shaun — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:54:28 GMT

We are happy to announce that the Player’s Handbook Version 3 has now been uploaded to the website, please use the link below to take a look and we hope you enjoy this addition to our growing website.

http://www.lorientrust.com/Rules/Rules/Introduction.aspx.

In Response to your Feedback.....

Chrissie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:16:19 GMT

So, we have received some great feedback already and are implementing the following over the next couple of days:

You have asked for an RSS feed for main and sanctioned events, so that you know the dates when we know the confirmed dates.

This is something we will look at setting up and will get back to you on.

You have asked us for a monthly calendar showing event dates...

we had one, but were hiding it till it was nicely populated with events, so will put this back up for you shortly.

Our Content Team are currently working hard on porting over the information from the old website and updating it to match the new website, and post cataclysm Erdreja.

Female Larpers have pointed out that they are severely under represented in our home page photos.

Well spotted ladies, we shall try and rectify this shortly.

As mentioned in my previous, we are curently working on the gallery to create an easy to use interface which will provide you with memories of your favourite events.

In the publications page, you have asked for hyperlinks to be added to the titles of the documents on the main page, this is a great idea and I wish I had thought of it.

If you have any more ideas or feedback, we'd love to hear from you, so please feel free to add your comments to this blog so the team can access them.

What to do with the booking form if I'm new...

Chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:22:46 GMT

Some people have been asking 'what do I need to do with my booking form as a new customer?'.

First thing to do is download a booking form, if you haven't already here is a link Booking Form 2010.

Then make sure you fill in all the details that you can relevant to the event you want to attend.

If someone has introduced you and you would like them to receive 10 extra OSPs, then please write a little note with their name, DOB, player ID(if known) and postcode and pop it in with your booking (or write it in one of the margins, inside of the booking form). Once we have processed your booking we will add the extra OSPs directly to your friends account.

Oh, and don't forget to include your payment.

Things are ticking along nicely

Chrissie — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:51:04 GMT

Thank you to those of you who have already taken the time to visit the new website and provide us with some helpful feedback. We are still working on several areas of the website and you will see a lot of changes over the next few days, so watch this space.

Our colleagues at Northwind are working hard to provide us with the new LT Forums next week, and we look forward to you all logging on and joining us in this exciting new phase of Company development. Each Faction and Guild will be provided with it's own forums, so you can stay in touch with your friends and allies (and keep an eye on your favourite enemies!)

We are also creating a Sanctioned Event page which will list all the up coming Guild and Faction Events as soon as they are booked with us, so you need never worry about missing an event again - all your event info will be in the one place.

Also in the pipeline is a Traders Page, which will give link to the sites of the top quality traders that frequent our events, so you can window shop before an event, or order a custom sword ready for the new season.

RSS Feed

Peter — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:13:57 GMT

You ask and we provide, we have now set up an RSS feed so that you can automatically keep up to date with our latest news

Lorien Trust Blog

Shuttle from Derby Station *UPDATE*

The Last Booking Deadline Of The Season Looms...

Lorien Trust Official Statement regarding Pythia

Well that's the Spring Moot out of the way...

Rules Recap

Changes to Sigils, Scrolls, and Alchemy for 2010

Bookings...

Online Rule Book Uploaded

In Response to your Feedback.....

What to do with the booking form if I'm new...

Things are ticking along nicely

RSS Feed

Shuttle from Derby Station UPDATE