Summon's not gone, & Bad Whiran Thoughts.

If I'm reading these tirades right grumble some people aren't upset that the PC got PKed. They're only upset with the method, which they feel is a lame use of a spell they don't think should exist at all because it can be used lamely (even though only two people have posted so far including myself who can recollect it being used to PK, a total of twice in the past 5 years).

It doesn't really matter how often it gets used. Also, due to the "vanish without a trace" nature of the spell, you can't use the number of cases that you know of as proof of how often it happens. There could be ten times more than that where the victims just didn't tattle. Regardless, the only point that really matters here is that a spell was removed because it was objectively broken and bad for the game, and it turns out that there's another spell that does virtually the same, checking all the boxes that caused Summon to be removed from the game.

Summon saved Hekro, too. Warlord Kharad and Great Lord Samos caught me after Kharad tried to kill me in the Barrel. While pleading for a chance to die in the arena with a weapon in hand instead of in some dungeon, I was Waying the Guild boss who prepped a Whiran rescue. So while Samos and Kharad were agreeing to my request (out of grudging respect, I vainly like to think), I emoted nut-kicking the NPC soldier that was holding me, succesfully fled to break subdue (max flee), ran outside the building, and psi'ed 'Now!' -- I vanished just as Samos came running in. It was so fucking satisfying. However, it's also evidence of just how completely bonkers the spell was as a Whiran could simply choose to summon anyone to some fatal fall, or to a pit with five gated monsters or something to that effect, with the only requirment being that the target was outdoors.

Reminds me of when I killed your Guild Nilazi. It must have been only a couple of months later. You were high 24/7 so your roleplay was batshit insane and sometimes barely intelligible. I had an assassin and was a green-rag in the Guild, together with WarriorPriest's PC and some third guy. One day you demanded that we go through a Nilaz portal for some reason, and we were like "fuck no" and you threatened to kill us if we didn't. So I backstabbed you down to poor, and without planning, the others promptly dogpiled you. I looted your endurance ring and fled to Tuluk where some fucking Jihaen spotted it through my gloves with peek and confiscated it.

Only ever seen one Whiran IC. One elkros, too. You know, if I grinded up a badass archer and taught him to use poisons, its fine if I catch you out on the wastes and pick you off from three rooms away. If I've got the gear and training to make stealth an invisibility cloak, and I stalk you to your room? Also fair. My first assassin died because I went through the effort of trying to emote while chasing down my target. He spammed movement away, and I got taken out by other players later. I was a bit unimpressed at the time, but I've come to realize that pvp in Arm is a game of rocket tag. You'll almost never have two equally skilled players fighting each other on fair terms. BUT, in most cases, even if you're Squishy McMerchantson, there are precautions you can take. Even if that precaution is 'don't piss people off' or 'stay in public.' What is not acceptable is giving one high-karma class the equivalent of a long-range, no countering 'kill button.'

Its not even interesting. The spell by its very nature leaves me no one to rp with. It makes no goddamn sense for the class to even have. Is the business of 'true names' and global presence the mark of wind? By that logic, a krathi should be able to bomb you from orbit with solar flares, because the sun has sight of you during daytime hours. Its silly. "Its an available option so don't be butthurt when I use it" is a very antagonistic approach to a roleplaying game. We're all here to explore concepts and enhance each other's experiences, I hope. A roleplaying game isn't really something to "win." Thats just my perspective, though. Even if it was competitive, a no risk 'maybe you'll die' is not a good thing to give anyone to just send out.

When I made that Nilazi, I was coming back from a break, and it was because mansa said he was playing in the Guild. He didn't elaborate too much, though, and I was blown away by what was going on when I showed up.

There was Gin, Quick, a female psionicist, mansa's psionicist, a mul, various magicked slaves... It was fucking weird as hell. But so damn fun.

It was actually Dust the defiler, who is now an emergent RL actor, who had given him that damn ring... Just so much supernatural shit going on.