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Crushbone

Lore

Crushbone GM Guild

The server's GM staff — Rusty-led, PoK-bound by design. The human face of Crushbone operations.

The Crushbone GM Guild is the server staff — Game Masters who run events, moderate conduct, tune content, and serve as the human face of the server. Led by Rusty, the lead GM and Guild leader, bound to the Plane of Knowledge by design, not by accident.

Leadership

  • Rusty — Lead GM, Guild leader. Main on-shift presence. Handles policy calls.
  • Guild officers — designated senior GMs with partial authority (tunings, event approvals).
  • Stewards — entry-level staff who handle stuck-in-wall tickets and newbie questions.

PoK bind by design

Rusty and the GM Guild are bound to the Plane of Knowledge intentionally. The PoK hub gets more NPC traffic than any other zone on the server, and keeping the GM guild visible where most players pass daily is the point.

The lore note: Rusty does not relocate to "fix" client crashes. The 2026-04 PoK cleanup (see Changelog) removed ~87 decorative NPCs from PoK to address a Mac Apple Silicon vertex buffer issue — and deliberately preserved the Rusty-led Crushbone guild despite the count reduction.

What GMs do

  • Respond to tickets — stuck characters, lost items, bug reports.
  • Run events — scheduled world events, holiday content, server anniversaries.
  • Enforce rules — warn/temp-ban/perm-ban per the escalation tiers in Server Rules.
  • Tune content — ZEM adjustments, NPC spawn corrections, loot fixes. Every change goes through the admin dash and the Changelog.
  • Serve as witnesses — roleplay continuity, lore consistency, long-memory for server history.

What GMs don't do

  • Give free items or levels to players.
  • Intervene in player disputes (those go through tickets or Discord).
  • Override raid loot disputes (that's guild leadership's job).
  • Run the game for players — discovery stays the player's.

GM channel etiquette

  • /petition opens a ticket. GMs respond when able, often within the hour during peak.
  • Polite tickets get faster responses than frustrated ones. This is true on every server and Crushbone is no exception.
  • Rusty specifically reads every new-player ticket. If you're stuck, ticket first, then Discord, then /ooc.

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