From one question to a raid platform.

Someone kills a boss, someone types it in Discord, and the bot does the arithmetic nobody wants to do at 11pm: respawn windows, variance, the whole board of who is up and who is hours away.

That was the entire product. It was already worth it.

A small program watches the log and turns it into parses, attendance, buff coverage and boss kills, with no typing and no one having to remember.

And not everyone has to run it. Each log sees the whole fight, so the uploads merge into one record: a raid night here averages 0 raiders, and a fraction of them parsing covers everyone. The most we have seen upload in one night is 0.

Parses you can open and read. Attendance that explains itself. Every character's gear, buffs, spells and DKP. A raid guide, boards, leaderboards, and /me, where you can see exactly what we hold on you and switch any of it off.

A desktop app that carries the agent, installs without admin rights, updates itself, and puts overlays on top of the game: DPS, tank, triggers, charm, pets, mob info, the buff queue.

Every other log parser points at one selected log file. Change character and it is watching the wrong one until you go and re-point it.

Mimic tails every character's log in your EQ folder at once and follows whoever you are actually playing. The overlays re-aim themselves. Nothing to switch, mid-raid, with eleven people waiting.

Attendance records itself at 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30: who was actually in the raid at that moment, written down before the live roster is overwritten. Filing the tick stays a deliberate officer action.

Loot is read straight out of guild and raid chat. By the time an officer opens the post screen the drops are listed and two clicks from being up for bids, tagged 🆕 NEW or 💎 ULTRA RARE against our own history and the drop tables.

Something that breaks at 8pm on a Wednesday does not stop the raid, but every convenience that fails becomes hand-work for the people already spending their evening running the night. They volunteer their time; the platform's job is to never hand it back to them broken.

Coming to Zeal: a wolf, a skull, a number over a mob's head. Tag marks the whole raid sees, so a pull or a mez target is called once, not five times, and guilds can have their own icon.

PvP fights are grouped into fights with a history, every death kept whoever was fighting, with the night's videos hung on the fight they belong to.

The board was never only for the newest zone. Every raid target from Classic through Luclin is on it with its own respawn time, from the 18-hour Chardok kills to the 162-hour (6 days 18 hours) ones like Lord Nagafen and King Tormax.

Luclin is the era the platform was built in: the parses, attendance and loot on the site are Luclin's record, down to the Aten Ha Ra kill in Vex Thal that we made a film of.

Planes of Power is gated by flags, and a raider missing one stands at the portal while the raid goes in. The PoP Flags page (members sign in) lists every step the server keeps and, for each, who can get in but has not done it yet.

A step counts when Mimic saw it happen, when /who proved it, or when the raider looted something in that plane, and raiders can tick their own. The named bosses are on the board too: three-hour timers in the Bastion of Thunder, and the 24-hour named in each plane. The guide walks the steps in the order the NPCs need them.