Rant: Mekillots and Bahamets

[jhunter]

And I on the other hand will be sure that none of my chars ever call them anything BUT Mets ever again.

Ditto.

[Avril]

The only problem with that explanation is that Silt Horrors aren't reduced to one sylable too

Let's examine the facts. 'Silt horror' can be divided into 'silt', 'ho' and 'rorrr'. The first, while particularly deadly and man-eating, is about as frightening as a big pit you could fall into. 'ho' sounds a bit like 'whooa!', and is generally suggestive of what tentacle monsters do (at least on japanese TV), but I just can't picture that one silt sailor who'd talk about his perilous encounter with the dreaded ho'. Then there's "rorrr". While certainly dangerous in a swashbuckling way, it still doesn't inspire the fear and dignity associated with the creature. At best "rorrr" would be the thing you say when gurgling to death as the silt horror pulls you down.

[X-D]

You don't hear silt horror reduced to one sylable, but you do see them reduced to one word, and it's not silt:)

[JollyGreenGiant]

You don't hear silt horror reduced to one sylable, but you do see them reduced to one word, and it's not silt:)

Does that word sound anything like "aaarrrrrrgh!"?

The only problem I can see with 'met for bahamet is the obvious temptation to make jokes about the Mets.  Or maybe that's only tempting for me...

[Delirium]

Ah, yet another beneficial side effect to not having a television and being completely uneducated in the area of professional sports.

When I see 'Met, I think of bahamet.

[mansa]

I'm sure someone else has said this, but..

When -I- see 'met, I think someone typo'd.

[Bogre]

ain't it: Me-Kill-Lot ?

That's the secret euphemism behind it, though its pronounced Mek-kill-lot

[Callisto]

I'm going to call them 'mets from now on, as well.

Take that you pretentious nit-pickers.

[Ziel]

People are going to shorten the names of things no matter what, so would you anti-met people prefer 'baha'?

[mansa]

I've already brought this up..but I'd like to share this with everybody.

Mek and Mekillot are well known, and used as standards for the name of the creature.  People have been calling them that for the longest time.  Almost as long as the Labrynth has been called the 'Rinth, and 'Nak for Allanak.

Bahamets, on the otherhand, have only recently been called 'mets.  It's a character's style to call them that.  We don't want to knock style...but...
I think a better choice would of been 'hamet.

When we compair Mek and 'Met, the only difference is one letter.  K and T.  And, if you vocally slur your words, they almost sound the same, in real life.  This difference is also noted in text, and in a game where people typo frequently.  I, watching your characters role-play, am presented with a difficult task of deciding, OOCly, if you're talking about a Bahamet or a Mekillot, because of one letter of which you might of typoed.

I, as a player of this game, will try my hardest to present to everybody in the game exactly what I am doing, through emotes and through my speech.  If I am drunk, I might try and slur my words.  If I am from a rough part of time, I might speak in slang.  If it's not my original language, I might stick with simple words and phrases.

I, as a player of this game, will not use the word, 'Met', because I want to portray my information as clear as possible to the vast majority of players that play the game, including those who for them, english is a second, or third language.

Anyways, that's just me.  You can do what you damn well please.

[Bushranger]

I used to call Bahamets simply Baha's but some students of the Tor Academdy died to one on spring break.

Then I changed and called them Bahahaha's but Halaster thought I was laughing at him and pkilled me.

I tried just calling the Bahamen until the bardic group by the same name began singing "Who let the Gortok out" and I was chased out of Tuluk.

I tried calling the Mets but mansa kept yelling "All your first base are belong to me!"

I tried calling them Hamet but some elf from the shakespear tribe threatened to take a pound of my flesh.

Finally I tried calling them The Grande Supremo El'Hugeo Tortoise Thingy but Starbucks sued me for using their trade-marked coffee cup size.

Now I just call them Ed.

The Bushranger.

[Cenghiz]

My char never thought of ways of shortening a bahamet's name. Maybe it's because that creature would kill me in a very short time. I remember my first encounter with that.... It was something like "l armored....*gulp*.. run;w;w;w;w;w"
My characters usually prefer even more stressing the word with stars or underlines, capitals etc. "As I said; he was killed by a BAHAMET you fool, not me. I don't have huge claws, you see?"
But from now on, I guess I'll start using 'met as a nick for _bahamet_.

[Kill4Free]

I dont see anything wrong with 'met, true you could get it confused with mek, but honestly, does it really matter.  They are both very big deadly creatures, that try to kill you on site.

[jstorrie]

Bahamuts are a nuisance.  They're always all like, "kill your ranger pal, eat your kank, cast Mega Flare on you" and most of the time I'm not even playing a class with Reflect.

[Savak]

This is the beating of many dead critters, not merely limited to horses.

Asked & answered, with some humor and flames already thrown in.

Though personally "'met" makes me think of a cancer metastasis, that merely reflects my job bias.  For now, we don't really care WHAT your character calls them, so long as it's Zalanthan and not, like, "Barbie."

Locking this thread.  Raise it again if you really think you've got something completely new to add.

-Savak