Revenge Characters? Bad Form? Fair Game? Share!

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I guess I shouldn't expect a lot out of you altogether, yeah.

ur not gonna keep any pupils with that attitude teach

They are extremely lame and I've been the victim of them. I'm not going to recount the story here again in fullest detail, but I've shared it on this board already. TLDR: A player whose character I killed made an alt, wormed their way into my clan, and conspiring with and encouraged by another player whose character I'd killed recently for molesting recruits (Grom), killed my own character (Nadhir) in the most lamest and retarded of ways, completely ignoring a host of IC factors.

Not limited to having no IC motive, playing a half-giant that lied straight up and even while closely interrogated under the effects of spice, did not RP it. Killing my character while he was asleep on the ground, in front of a salarr family member and in front of various Salarri NPCs, then speedwalking out the gates. He got away with it, partly, because my2sids, who was playing the Salarri family member that it happened in front of, was more or less overwhelmed by circumstances, being new to the world. Abuzer then did a bang up job of disposing of Nadhir's corpse, after all his pockets were rifled through for magic rangz. And all of this happened late at night (like 3 AM), before the people who Nadhir actually trusted were even aware of it, like Mopatis, Flora, fightclub's ranger, and a couple other guys found out. Three of them suicided/stored within 24 hours. We had a short-run group app of mutants, but my heart wasn't in it, and I needed a break from Arm.

I received confirmation from players, later on, who had OOC proof of their collaboration and reasons, and I made an official complaint to Adhira. Nothing came of it. Although, Anaiah told me that the incident caused them to watch the players in question more closely, and they lost karma later over a different incident.

In conclusion, revenge PCs can suck a big fat cock, and the retarded cowards who indulge in them and their OOC cliques are a big reason why I lost interest in Armageddon.

In Nadhir's case, my own naivete did me in, as I honestly did not expect any kind of OOC vendetta, and I thought someone with supposedly like karma 6 was a straight shooter. I thought one of the half-giants was a newbie, and I was doing my best to train him. The people that tried to warn me in oblique ways, I did not listen to. It was only afterwards that I began talking to people OOCly on IM, and finding out the real reasons behind various fuckery. And that was another step towards growing disenchanted with arm.

From what I was told (by Anaiah), that happened after he did something else, later on. But there were a few people involved. Off the top of my head, one was Crashloft's friend, the horned half-giant who did the killing (whose delf alt I killed), and a Tuluki noblewoman who was suspiciously patronizing the newb horned half-giant, who got him to kill Nadhir (for whatever reason), was also crash's friend, and who I also evidently fucked over in some way, on a previous alt of her's. She might've been the mindbender he killed. It's been almost 6 years since I got the lowdown from someone who was a friend of the mindbender's player.

Crashloft did a lot of shady shit before he ever got much more than a slap on the wrist. After Nadhir killed Grom, he posted a rant on the GDB about how Nadhir used his magic rangz or something to do it, and told everyone Nadhir had rings. I've had many people tell me, either over IM, PM back then and now, about Grom telling them of Nadhir's supposed hoard of rings (he had one!). None of that got him banned, as far as I know. It just got him on watch, until he stepped afoul of someone staff actually cared about, and then got banned.

I can only imagine how disappointed Abuzer was, that my2sids had already taken the one agility ring before he got to the body. And for the record, I liked Abuzer. Everyone else in Salarr, excepting the half-giants, were basically good people and good RPers. We were the horrible stilt-lizard fisting twinks. If someone was going to loot my corpse for rangz and dump me in a ditch before even the mother of Nadhir's bastard child could log on, I would want it to be him.

I was actually at peace with Nadhir's death when it happened. I had killed so many people, that I knew it was bound to happen eventually. It was only when people sought me out OOCly and told me who the players were behind the characters, and the OOC reasons why they did it, that it upset me.

And this folks is why I'm not a big fan of karma (in the game). It's given out so arbitrarily, yet people that have it do the most abusive shit.

On another note, as someone that alternates between cities on every character; some characters are hard to get away from.

When your character dies, you shouldn't have a dog in the race anymore. Players who set out to go, "X killed me. I'm going to kill X" and warping their ARPEs to a pinnacle of extremism to reach that goal aren't doing anybody any good.

I talked to my friend IRL about Armageddon and MUDs in general, and he told me "This isn't even getting mad at pixels on a screen . . . This is getting mad at a binary transmission of 0s and 1s." I couldn't agree more with him.