On the cold night of December 8th, 2016 I was bored and sick of studying for history: then again, what else would an IB student do besides use video games to procrastinate? Hehehe.
Anyways, I was playing on a parkour server at the time, but kept failing at one particular ladder jump. At some point, I got so frustrated I just quit. I decided that I still wanted to play Minecraft, but I needed to find another server. Looking for, and I quote, "Bow and Arrow RPG Minecraft Servers", looking for something kind of along the lines of the WynnCraft server, I came across Loka.
I joined and started on the Intro Course, but was called away for dinner and had to log out. Logging back in, I realized I had bugged the system because I was still classified as being in the Intro Course, but I wasn't in the TGen to be able to finish off. I traveled to Ascalon, as a noob to the server (hehe, I actually remember that I originally thought the continent was called Eldritch just because of how much they owned of it) and tried gathering some materials. I wanted to travel to Aureum to see if I could find out how to join a town, but I died at what I suppose was an inhibitor (I don't exactly remember, but there was an Iron golem and it was scary ;-

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Another player had joined the server at the time (I don't remember who ;-

and the greatest person I've met to date responded with a Welcoming message. That player was Jedoi!!

Anyways, Jed said that if the new player had a question, to just ask her. Perfect! Time for me to figure out what was going on with my life >.<
Asking for help, she tp'ed to me, gave me some cooked food, and was vanished but basically became my guardian angel. It was still night in Ascalon, so she was also kind enough to kill the mobs of the area...but I still died because I was a noob...
Anyways, back at Aladra, with more food (thanks Jed! The cooked chicken was delicious!) Jed and I got on the North Star and traveled to Kalros. Walking upon the Hilo Highway, I saw a bright orange light shining in the sky. Questioning it (while Jed continued welcoming new players to Loka), I started walking towards it. Apparently, it was a TGen to Auru territory. Asking about Auru, Jed gave me a tour of the town and the spire. Noticing a sign for a Historian's Guild, and asking how I could join it, I also asked if I could somehow join Auru. I wasn't mad, Jed had helped me so much just in that hour alone, I decided I'd want to be a town member of someone who was so nice and caring (surprise, apparently I'm her husband in lore now ;-

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Knowing how much I was interested in Lore, Jedoi sent me four links to Lore Stories on the forums over discord: Iyo's Sickholm Saga and Shadows under the Spire, a story about the history of Auru (which I think Ajaxan wrote, but I could be wrong), and Jed's own Basics to Lokan Lore. I went into a small corner of Aladra, by the farms, went afk to start reading some of this stuff while still talking to Jed and, about 30~45 minutes into my reading session, I was spammed by Jed that Crypt was on and he was going to fix all of my problems.
A quick relog later, an invite from Xovious, and an excited cheer from all around, and I was a full functioning member of Auru and Loka!
As you can see, by Gain His Trust on the Lore Forums, I'm still here, and I'm not leaving anytime soon!

Thanks for being so welcoming to a new player. It's been a blast over the past month and a half, and I can't wait to get to the 4 year marker that Jed's coming up on, and all the events and experiences bound to come with it
-Tee