There's a rules page for the server that pops up, one of the standard isolation channels to try to make sure that the user reads the rules before going forward. 

This server is supposed to be a more casual place to talk with fellow daoists from a wide variety of backgrounds and traditions and times, so the rules are going to be pretty light overall, though there's still a few things that need to be covered.

1) Be respectful of other traditions, clans and lineages - a little boasting is fine, and technical analysis is welcome (so long as you keep deeper dives in the appropriate #Sermon-Containment channels or hide the relevant content with discord's tools), but blanket statements about the strength and moral alignment of lineages will result in a temp ban - remember that there's always someone stronger out there, and there are as many ways to enlightenment as stars in the sky!

2) Keep not safe for work content in the containment channels - it's important to keep the logs clean for our juniors. 

3) Any request for cultivation resources, duel preparations, techniques, weapons, talismans, formations, food supplies and tribulation oversight should go in #request-marketplace to avoid clutter and to best ensure fair dealing. Failure to live up to agreements made shall be rectified and punished by the resident seniors discretion, alongside indefinite bans from the marketplace. If you need to negotiate in private, feel free to contact an administrator to ensure the deal works out best for both parties. 
 
 4) If you have any questions about the modern world or the fundamentals of cultivation, please check the pins in #modernity and #resources respectively before asking - it saves time for everyone. 

5) Don't forget to be kind to your juniors and pay respect to your seniors!

6) Please try to stay on topic here - digressions are fine, but make sure that you listen if the group asks you to move a conversation to a different channel, and remember we have the seperate channels for a reason!

7) React to this message with a checkmark to get access to the rest of the server to show you've read the rules, and feel free to add your own pronoun, tradition, interest and DM status roles using the rolebot. 

8) Contact me or Glacial Glave Grandmaster if you want to get a realm role, so we can appraise you properly. 

She blinked hard.

It was normal enough to have a rules page like that, and if she tilted her head most of the rules were the same sort of thing she'd seen in any number of places. 

Simple things like 'be respectful / don't be a racist', 'respect containment channels', 'keep your end of a deal', "don't ask stupid questions when we have a resource to answer those questions for you", "be kind", "stay on topic" and even instructions for getting roles, verified or otherwise but...

She shook her head. 

That didn't seem quite right. Would they really go that far in making even the rules page something that far in-character? She'd seen a bunch that were partially like that - but it was almost always an italicized bit for style as a sidenote beside the normal version - not the sort of plain rules written as if it was all...

Real. 

She shook her head, breathing out softly. 

It wouldn't do to indulge in escapist fantasies like that but...

She scrolled down to look at the emojis for the roles, checking them out.

There's a bunch of reacts spaced apart onto multiple posts - it looks like it needed to be split apart to have enough room for everything, and a ✅ react on the rules themselves.

⚔️👊 🏹🗡️📜🍖💊🛠️🖋️🧭🌐🌿🎵🪄

♀♂⚥

✡️☸️☯️✝️⚛️🕉️

Most of them have about a dozen reacts, while there's 42 reacts on the checkmark and nearly as many for the crossed swords one, and significantly fewer then might be expected for the male and cross reacts.

She smiles a little wryly, and reacts to the female sign and checkmark to go forward. 

After a moment, her name changes color to a soft blue, and the rest of the server opens up!

She scrolls down, looking at the long list of users on the server - each one with the sort of ridiculous chuuni names she saw earlier - 'Mindful Master Maid', 'Steely Student', 'Supreme Spear Spirit Soveriegn' are just a few of the ones she sees on the user list.

The channel list is a little much too - there's one for more or less every trade that a cultivator would want to discuss, and they are all reasonably active, though the general channel seems like the main focus, considering how seemingly every time she checks up on it there is someone typing.

She takes a moment to check it out.

Ooh fresh blood~ 🩸

Your eagerness is appreciated as always, Ruby, but I doubt that’s the sort of welcome they were looking for. 

But in any case, welcome to the server! It's always a pleasure to get to encounter more fellow daoists and get a chance to learn from them. 

pouts

Honestly, half the reason why I like going along with posting that emoji 's 'cause it looks like a beautiful lil teardrop gem, but well...

That being said - there’s generally always something for someone to learn, be they your senior or junior, and your flying sword skills are good enough that range shouldn't be much of a limitation for coming to meet them, so perhaps you’ll get a taste of blood from them after all~? 

blush

You really are as vicious a tease as you are a fighter, aren't you? 

🙃

Something like that, yes~

Pleasure to see more people joining the server! 

Gosh I'm so excited for the Inborn Realm - it seems like getting a flying sword would be so freeing, and there's just... so much to do once you get the chance.

Does anyone know who the new invite is? I think that Senior Fox of the Sylvan Spirit Lake said that she had a few juniors to invite a while ago - Steely Student was part of that, and they're a joy, but not sure if she had more people to bring in...

Oh yeah it's good fun - just a lil slow - Golden Cores are fiddly things and getting the best grade and dragon mark count makes it take decades.

...You know that a lot of people take decades for even the first realm, senior? 

Yeah yeah - it's just that even if you don't run into a bottleneck it's the first one that really takes forever, yeah? 

I got to True Master at 7, Battle Queen by 13 'cause I wanted to delay it a bit to get the strongest tribulation and set up a body cultivation art right, 'nd got to inborn for 21, but it'll be at least twenty years before I can get through to the end, and it'd probably be more like thirty if I want to do maximal prep for it and avoid just throwing away my life into closed door cultivation. 

@Steely Student 

That's true - but remember that most cultivators get through in a few years, and it's hard to really draw conclusions about speed from people who have hit bottlenecks. 

That being said, Ruby's the sort of curve-breaking genius that defies the normal standards enough for her results to not be very useful to you, too. 

Even with how late you started and less support than many clan members would expect, you are still nearly to the peak of the second realm after a decade, so it's not nesscarily too slow to get through that phase.

That sort of speed is the sort of thing that you can expect from a genuine talent, and it taking dozens of years to get to inborn and hundreds of years to get to Spirit Sovereign is more or less to be expected even with the increasingly good talent it requires to get that far.

awkwardly rubs the back of my neck

Oh yeah. 

Back to what Radiant Heart was sayin', it's always hard to keep track of what she's up to when she has that racial clone technique thing, even for that sorta senior. 'll have to ask when she next comes on or something like that. 

hummm...

'Moonsilver' is an interesting name, especially just on it's own - that's a good smith name basis but there's all sorts of holy types or body cultivators that'd go with a name like that so...

It is a little unusual - perhaps it's simply her common name or she hasn't settled on one yet and just wants to have that fragment down.

Possibly!

I hope she shows up properly soon - it's always a little awkward when people end up going into closed door meditation before getting a real chance to interact here.

@Resplendent Solar Solider 

I suppose that makes sense - I guess I'm still used to thinking in mortal timespans that start everything off much later then most clan cultivators do, and I know that a lot of the reason why I've progressed so far is with your help, senior sister.

She took a deep breath, hands on her keyboard, trying to resist the impulse to just write something. 

She wouldn't be 'that guy' who didn't read the pins just because there was something cute going on that they wanted to be a part of. 

She went to grab a glass of water, trying not to let this capture her thoughts too much.