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Post by jcarter on Mar 28, 2014 14:36:04 GMT -5
When I was a templar under Samos, we went on a mission to a tomb in the Salt flats because supposedly there was a note written in there that would give us the secret to the key of how to kill Shattered. I kept telling samos that it was really, really dumb because doesn't it seem kind of stupid that there's a tomb in the middle of a desert that just happens to have a neat little note written that is the key to killing the suddenly relevant sorcerer and he basically shot with a 'yeah probably but we what other choice do we have'. in hindsight we probably should have just paid the Byn to go get killed in such an obvious trap.
we ended up heading out on this merry little RPT. My templar was warrior guild, decked out in magick rings that I took off the corpse of the maxxed out Elkrosian who had his own custom casting animations that I PKed the week before, so I was feeling pretty good and this was around the time where the gemmed in Allanak were like the X-Men so they gave me a couple of magick weapons. In short, he was ready to fuck some shit up. I had played out and updated in my weekly updates that my dude was getting pretty cocky from constantly walking around having magick gear that made him way stronger and faster than any other human.
We get to this tomb, and there's some talking zombie that's giving Samos this gobbledy-gook and long-winded speech and basically not answering our questions. I got a bit lippy with it and it threw up on my templar's fine-silk robes, which obviously was not tolerable because I'm a fucking templar so I emoted punching it into the face until it's head was mush. This prompted staff to load a ridiculous number of Nilazi elementals and zombies, which I was hacking up left and right. Sometimes I would cast flamestrike even though it would lower my damage output because what the fuck is more inspiring than seeing a templar chopping up zombies and screaming 'IN THE NAME OF THE HIGHLORD, LET FLAMES STRIKE DOWN MY ENEMIES!' as he lights shit on fire?
We ended up escaping and somehow a friendly Nilazi opened us up a portal back to the city which we hopped in through. I was kind of drunk irl at this point and there was still a private left behind, so I hopped back through the portal to grab him but had over a dozen enemies insta-aggro and it was over before I could finish typing flee.
these events happened in april of 2008, and for some odd reason a staff member decided to leave me a negative account note about it eight months later, on Christmas day, accusing me of being suicidal and OOCly influenced. i didn't find out about it until 2010 when I requested my account notes, and I put in a request asking why someone was writing account notes on a character about an event that had occurred 8 months earlier, why I was being accused of it being OOCly influenced, and why I had never had this mentioned to me and that I was able to support my character's motivations with the weekly reports that I had taken the time to write and send in. I got an answer back from Morgenes basically saying idk that staff member left and since I can't hear their side of the story I'm not going to remove the comment.
sorry about that stream of consciousness post, I just remember Shattered because of that whole situation and forgot all about it until I thought about that RPT.
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ps I was as awesome of a templar as you would imagine. one time i caught an elf thief (go figure), and we did a science experiment to see if elves could fly. i went all the way to the top of whira's tower with my guards and threw him over the edge and shouted "FLAP! FLAP YOUR ARMS!". i ran down to the bottom and he was nowhere to be seen, so I figured wow elves really can fly! only for him to try to backstab me out of hiding and get insta-gibbed by my HG guard.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 15:30:09 GMT -5
one time i caught an elf thief (go figure), and we did a science experiment to see if elves could fly. i went all the way to the top of whira's tower with my guards and threw him over the edge and shouted "FLAP! FLAP YOUR ARMS!". i ran down to the bottom and he was nowhere to be seen, so I figured wow elves really can fly! only for him to try to backstab me out of hiding and get insta-gibbed by my HG guard. This, sir, is beautiful. It reminds me of when Validos kept pushing some asshole criminal off Whira's tower to get him to talk and having a viv heal him up only to do it again. Good times with whira's tower, I say. And that hidden elf is even funnier. Wish I could've seen it. |
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Post by themountaingoat on Mar 28, 2014 17:25:03 GMT -5
When I was a templar under Samos, we went on a mission to a tomb in the Salt flats because supposedly there was a note written in there that would give us the secret to the key of how to kill Shattered. I kept telling samos that it was really, really dumb because doesn't it seem kind of stupid that there's a tomb in the middle of a desert that just happens to have a neat little note written that is the key to killing the suddenly relevant sorcerer and he basically shot with a 'yeah probably but we what other choice do we have'. in hindsight we probably should have just paid the Byn to go get killed in such an obvious trap. we ended up heading out on this merry little RPT. My templar was warrior guild, decked out in magick rings that I took off the corpse of the maxxed out Elkrosian who had his own custom casting animations that I PKed the week before, so I was feeling pretty good and this was around the time where the gemmed in Allanak were like the X-Men so they gave me a couple of magick weapons. In short, he was ready to fuck some shit up. I had played out and updated in my weekly updates that my dude was getting pretty cocky from constantly walking around having magick gear that made him way stronger and faster than any other human. We get to this tomb, and there's some talking zombie that's giving Samos this gobbledy-gook and long-winded speech and basically not answering our questions. I got a bit lippy with it and it threw up on my templar's fine-silk robes, which obviously was not tolerable because I'm a fucking templar so I emoted punching it into the face until it's head was mush. This prompted staff to load a ridiculous number of Nilazi elementals and zombies, which I was hacking up left and right. Sometimes I would cast flamestrike even though it would lower my damage output because what the fuck is more inspiring than seeing a templar chopping up zombies and screaming 'IN THE NAME OF THE HIGHLORD, LET FLAMES STRIKE DOWN MY ENEMIES!' as he lights shit on fire? We ended up escaping and somehow a friendly Nilazi opened us up a portal back to the city which we hopped in through. I was kind of drunk irl at this point and there was still a private left behind, so I hopped back through the portal to grab him but had over a dozen enemies insta-aggro and it was over before I could finish typing flee. these events happened in april of 2008, and for some odd reason a staff member decided to leave me a negative account note about it eight months later, on Christmas day, accusing me of being suicidal and OOCly influenced. i didn't find out about it until 2010 when I requested my account notes, and I put in a request asking why someone was writing account notes on a character about an event that had occurred 8 months earlier, why I was being accused of it being OOCly influenced, and why I had never had this mentioned to me and that I was able to support my character's motivations with the weekly reports that I had taken the time to write and send in. I got an answer back from Morgenes basically saying idk that staff member left and since I can't hear their side of the story I'm not going to remove the comment. sorry about that stream of consciousness post, I just remember Shattered because of that whole situation and forgot all about it until I thought about that RPT. edit: ps I was as awesome of a templar as you would imagine. one time i caught an elf thief (go figure), and we did a science experiment to see if elves could fly. i went all the way to the top of whira's tower with my guards and threw him over the edge and shouted "FLAP! FLAP YOUR ARMS!". i ran down to the bottom and he was nowhere to be seen, so I figured wow elves really can fly! only for him to try to backstab me out of hiding and get insta-gibbed by my HG guard. Oh man, you killed Kolt? I'll love you forever. Fuck Sakra and his shitty characters. |
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Post by jcarter on Mar 28, 2014 18:12:45 GMT -5
haha, yeah that was me.
This was in like early '08 when the game was trying to clamp down on the magick stuff after everything went hog wild and Arm 2 fizzled out. There was staff-made backlash against magickers going on, I think there was the protestors outside the elementalist quarter and so on. My templar was in charge of CAM and making sure they stayed under control. Kolt kept showing off his magick powers and shit, talking about them in taverns, and making people uncomfortable. I told him plenty of times to just knock it off and tone that shit down. Finally, the straw that broke the camel's back was when this other templar (hilarious guy, played up the whole fat lazy templar angle) let Kolt show off in the Arena and go to town on NPCs with his magick powers. Didn't leave me with much of a choice.
I felt shitty about it because here's this uber character and I get there's a lot of time and stuff put into it that's been on so many adventures but it was like come on man I kept telling you to knock the shit off.
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Post by topkekm8s on Mar 29, 2014 16:47:20 GMT -5
jcarter cum inside me
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Post by topkekm8s on Apr 1, 2014 19:33:45 GMT -5
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Post by tektolnes on Apr 2, 2014 23:16:14 GMT -5
I don't share his enthusiasm, but I would pay $10 to watch.
Out of curiosity, what was the name/sdesc of the templar you played? He sounds like an interesting one. Wondering if I remember / was tortured by him...
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Post by jcarter on Apr 3, 2014 7:09:40 GMT -5
I don't share his enthusiasm, but I would pay $10 to watch. Out of curiosity, what was the name/sdesc of the templar you played? He sounds like an interesting one. Wondering if I remember / was tortured by him... Naremis Tor, the spry, blond-haired templar. As far as templars go I wasn't particularly memorable imo. I think Kolt, the elf who tried to backstab me, and a dwarf who attacked me were the only people I ever PKed. I always thought templars should be a bit over the top: they don't ever get paid and their only source of income is bribes and shakedowns. Combine that with free reign to terrorize commoners all you want with a couple of NPC thugs, forced shouts praising the Highlord when you cast spells, and it's a pretty fun role. PKing to me is a lazy way of enforcing who is top dog as a templar, unless it's something like executing someone's subordinates to make a point to them. |
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Post by tektolnes on Apr 3, 2014 13:34:26 GMT -5
Hm. Don't recall the guy, but he sounds cool.
I always thought Nobles were on some sort of allowance system. Like, as a Junior noble you get 1000 sid per IG month, or something. I can't decide if it's a good thing that they have no "free" income or not. On one hand, it forces them to be active and plot. On the other, it's sort of like the "cop with a quota" thing - pretty soon you'll be fining people because you want that mastercrafted item.
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Post by baron on Apr 4, 2014 1:16:39 GMT -5
Nobles (who aren't templars) have a stipend, but it's pretty small compared to what independents can earn.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 2:58:05 GMT -5
Nobles (who aren't templars) have a stipend, but it's pretty small compared to what independents can earn. Nobles are woefully underpaid. All clans and clan members of all ranks are. I think if you went in and multiplied the common pay amount by like... maybe 10x across the board for all clan members... you would see indies shrink to nothing and people genuinely fight to get spots in clans. |
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Post by moofassa on Apr 4, 2014 10:03:51 GMT -5
I haven't played a noble in over a year, but I thought the stipend was ok. It's good enough that you can throw money around when needed, but low enough that people can bribe them. Nobles get a lot of damn good gear like many clanned people, so they don't really need the money. They get far less than independents, but enough resources to play social roles full time.
IMO it's best this way. People who take risks make more money, and nobility should be in the background. Game is about adventurers in a harsh world.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 10:11:27 GMT -5
I haven't played a noble in over a year, but I thought the stipend was ok. It's good enough that you can throw money around when needed, but low enough that people can bribe them. (point 1) Nobles get a lot of damn good gear like many clanned people, so they don't really need the money. (point 2)They get far less than independents, but enough resources to play social roles full time. IMO it's best this way. People who take risks make more money, and (point 3) nobility should be in the background. Game is about adventurers in a harsh world.1. According to the fashion documentation about their lavish spending to keep up with fashions, as well as 2k prices for a lot of stuff that's geared toward nobility, I have to disagree with point 1. 2. Point 2 doesn't seem skewed when nobility have enough for lavish estates, large scale servant hiring, stables of pleasure slaves, etc, and independents can't even get a wagon, yo? 3. Point 3 I agree this is how things SHOULD be, but in practice, it's not how things -are-. In order to accomplish damn near anything other than sid farming or interpersonal conflict, you have to be in cahoots with a noble, which forces the hand of anyone who does want to have a lot of different types of adventure. In many cases sheerly because nobility are sponsored roles that receive staff backing or at least can use their 'resources' (which are codedly less than an indie!) to 'back' plots. |
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Post by tektolnes on Apr 4, 2014 10:55:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I've always hatted how automatic clans are. Want to be a Tor Scropion, the most elite fighter on the planet? Basically just dont be a fucking moron and you'll make Sargeant. (Or Silver or whatever it is.)
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Post by ask on Apr 4, 2014 11:44:00 GMT -5
Nobles (who aren't templars) have a stipend, but it's pretty small compared to what independents can earn. Nobles are woefully underpaid. All clans and clan members of all ranks are. I think if you went in and multiplied the common pay amount by like... maybe 10x across the board for all clan members... you would see indies shrink to nothing and people genuinely fight to get spots in clans. definitely depends on the clan you're in. some nobles roll in the sid and others barely have enough to afford a meal out. |
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