Mentors Wanted

[Rias]

As I'm preparing to get in-game events rolling soon and hoping to get at least a few new players (and pull in some old ones), I thought it might be a good idea to have a mentor or two ready to help new people out. It's a purely voluntary role, and will come with the "Mentor" title by one's name in WHO.

Mentors are just the people others know they can go to with OOC questions or to seek general guidance about the game. You don't need to know everything there is to know, but you should know a good amount about the game - enough to help new players get situated, figure out the commands, how to get started earning some riln and experience, that kind of thing. Nothing wrong with not knowing some answers and telling them you don't, but that you'll look into it, or just point them to the BBS to post their questions there.

Being a mentor would include the ability to zap oneself from the front desk of any inn to the wondrous Mentor Lounge, as well as pull others from the same locations, in order to facilitate OOC conversation and some possible demonstrations of various things in an OOC environment. Anything happening in the Mentor Lounge and associated rooms will not "save", so returning back to the IC world will leave people exactly as they were when they left. Yes, this means if we open up a combat demonstration room, or possibly some sort of "OOC battle arena", any wounds or other losses suffered there, be it to body, soul, or gear, would be temporary.

If anyone's interested, please send an email to rias (at) contrarium.net with a subject line of: "COGG Mentoring"