Shame (the opposite of bragging)

[Armaddict]

One of my first elves was hired to teach someone allundean.  I didn't know how.  Once it was explained that they just needed to hear me speak it, via ooc, I proceeded to IC'ly tell the story of the 3 little pigs and the big bad wolf in allundean.


Jesus.  I just remembered that, and it made me shake my head.

[Bast]

Certain threads on the boards the other day got me thinking about something and this seems the best place to share it. It's something that actually still bothers me and I want to apologize for it.

Giving out as little game info as possible...back in 2007 a staff member was extremely good to myself and a group of others in my Clan. They spent a ton of time with us and worked their tail off on a number of plot lines for us, it was one of the best experiences I have ever had on Arm and I am better role-player for it. At the time staff had started toning back on a lot of the crazy magick and other weirdness going on back then but certain other clans where running around with some pretty crazy stuff (and abilities). At the apex of the major plot that my friends and I were lucky enough to be involved in there was a sort of OOC assumption some of us would be getting a bigger reward than we got. In retrospect I fully understand why we didn't and that staff -needed- to tone things down but at the time I was a total child about it and sent a nasty couple emails to my staffer. I think I likely really hurt their feelings and it was completely undeserved. They worked their ass off for us and rewarded us the best way they could. I wasn't vulgar or aggressive but I did say some hurtful things and it was completely out of line. I felt bad for it a few weeks later but by the time I got around to wanting to apologize, the staffer had left the team. I worry I might have contributed to burning them out on being a Story teller and when I think back on it, I still feel bad. So if you are said person and you still play the game I am truly sorry I was so ungrateful.

[ShaLeah]

One of my first elves was hired to teach someone allundean.  I didn't know how.  Once it was explained that they just needed to hear me speak it, via ooc, I proceeded to IC'ly tell the story of the 3 little pigs and the big bad wolf in allundean.


Jesus.  I just remembered that, and it made me shake my head.

I think it was my second or third character in, some multiple personality chick, I remember telling a dorf to tell me the story of little red riding cloak so I could learn mirrukim. It rocked.  I am not ashamed.

[BleakOne]

Once, I tried to introduce Zalanthas to a food inspired by those fillets of blowfish (not sure of the spelling, Fugu?).

[AdamBlue]

My human Byn Sergeant's goal was to have childen through any means possible. So he had many, many, many mistresses.

Rinthi Girls. Breeds. A bloke that was really pretty-looking. Gemmers. Un-gemmed hunted mages (a templar actually caught him once but let him off the hook with a slap on the hand).
Dwarves. Tribal girls, northern girls, southern girls. Storm girls, luirs girls, any girl he could get his hands on. He lied to a woman about giving her an escort to Allanak if he could kank her, and he did then he left that morning.

He slept with a half-giant. It nearly destroyed a building.

I'm fairly certain that he pulled a Genghis Khan, and his descendents are numerous and varied.

[FantasyWriter]

I wonder how many children Gage Gritshaw had.

[Aruven]

Okay, I just recalled the most humiliating thing to top them all.

Way back in the day, Kurac didn't own that one place. Mantis did. Everybody in the known world knew what was coming next, so everyone was making plans to go to Luirs and join this battle.

So I was with this little group. It was really chaotic -- We charge in, help kill a bunch of mantis, then when its over start looting some corpses.
There is a coded message to all rooms about 'looters being murdered'

I'm like 'Fuck it, we can load up a bit, we did some work.'

So we scavenge up some bodies, then Kurac floods the room, and takes us prisoner. These guys were like making fun of the dumb ass name we had come up with and then proceed to start PK'ing us in a locked room, no chances. I was so mad about it I started OOC'ing shit about in the middle of the scene. Real immature stuff on my end.

[Beethoven]

When I made my first d-elf, immediately upon entering the game, all of my NPC tribesmates immediately ganked and killed me.

I thought I had done something wrong, but I got a message about how it was an unexpected error with the new auto-clanning system. I got a res--happy day--and was instructed to coordinate a time with staff.

For some reason that I cannot for the life of me explain to you, I got impatient and entered the game again.

I bet you can guess what happened next. Yes, I immediately got ganked by the same NPC tribesmates and died in exactly the same way as before. I think I assumed that I had been rezzed into some sort of a safe room where I could wish up and wait around for staff assistance. It seems unbelievably stupid now, having been specifically asked to coordinate with staff. They didn't tell me exactly not to log in, but it's so unbelievably obvious. They had to res me yet again, although I can't say I deserved it that time around.. I can be a real pain in the ass sometimes, I guess. I can't tell you how red in the cheeks I was.

I almost kind of want to tell you that I logged in again and got wtfpwned a third time, just for the sake of comedic symmetry, but alas, that was the end of it. Still, the shame remains, and stings to this day. I imagine if anything like this ever happens again, the staff will feel the need to tell me in all caps, "WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T LOG IN."

[Beethoven]

Somehow quoted myself instead of editing my last post. Double shame.

[Beethoven]

When I made my first d-elf, immediately upon entering the game, all of my NPC tribesmates immediately ganked and killed me.

I thought I had done something wrong, but I got a message about how it was an unexpected error with the new auto-clanning system. I got a res--happy day--and was instructed to coordinate a time with staff.

For some reason that I cannot for the life of me explain to you, I got impatient and entered the game again.

I bet you can guess what happened next. Yes, I immediately got ganked by the same NPC tribesmates and died in exactly the same way as before. I think I assumed that I had been rezzed into some sort of a safe room where I could wish up and wait around for staff assistance. It seems unbelievably stupid now, having been specifically asked to coordinate with staff. They didn't tell me exactly not to log in, but really, it was unbelievably obvious. They had to res me yet again, although I can't say I deserved it that time around.. I can be a real pain in the ass sometimes, I guess. I can't tell you how red in the cheeks I was.

I almost kind of want to tell you that I logged in again and got wtfpwned a third time, just for the sake of comedic symmetry, but alas, that was the end of it. Still, the shame remains, and stings to this day. I imagine if anything like this ever happens again, the staff will feel the need to tell me in all caps, "WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T LOG IN."

[Desertman]

I wonder how many children Gage Gritshaw had.

He did once mention in game to someone that he had somewhere between twelve and fifteen little bastards running around the Rinth that he knew of based on the mothers who had found his head to let him know.

He was also a serial rapist and probably had many more he never knew about.

He didn't care about any of them anyways.

I do recall a scene where Gage Gritshaw was approached in Redstorm by a VNPC victim of his in a tavern with a pair of twin girls that "belonged to him". He beat the mother and sent her packing after throwing one of the toddlers by the hair out of her arms onto a nearby table.

He was not a nice man.

[AdamBlue]

I wonder how many children Gage Gritshaw had.

He did once mention in game to someone that he had somewhere between twelve and fifteen little bastards running around the Rinth that he knew of based on the mothers who had found his head to let him know.

He was also a serial rapist and probably had many more he never knew about.

He didn't care about any of them anyways.

I do recall a scene where Gage Gritshaw was approached in Redstorm by a VNPC victim of his in a tavern with a pair of twin girls that "belonged to him". He beat the mother and sent her packing after throwing one of the toddlers by the hair out of her arms onto a nearby table.

He was not a nice man.

Yeah, Ryatt was the opposite of Gage Gritshaw, at least when it came to kids and his various romances. He had to make sure he fully suave'd all the ladies he was with, and if they happened to have kids, he was super happy and threw parties and shit.

[Pariah]

I have died more times to falling in pits than to any creature.

I've fought probably all the creatures in the game, and very rarely died to just the creature, however I can say that I've almost always died falling in one room holes.