When you run from a skeet kicking the tar out of your character, stop, and wonder if that war spice in your pack will turn the tides of combat.
I had a dream recently that featured an Armageddon staffer. It's the closest thing to an Arm-related dream I've ever had.
???
Edit: Not that kind of dream. Perverts.
Desertman was once killed by a beggar. With a bowl.
Quote from: Forest Junkie on August 03, 2008, 03:51:38 AM
Desertman was once killed by a beggar. With a bowl.
Bwahahahah... I love hearing that story!
Playing a cowardly NON-combat, NON-magick (no defense whatsoever) PC, and being poofed someplace by someone/something, emoting trembling, fumbling for weapon from a pouch in belt.. This mind you is not the sad part, but the part where you go "get dagger belt" emote emote emote "draw dagger" "You don't have that weapon sheathed" And being so OOCly frazzled by the event you can't recall where the hell it is. And die without ever wielding it.
Trying to LOOK down off a spot high up, and forgetting to type the 'l' before hitting 'd' and plummeting over the edge.
Having my rinthi elf die from her first ever attempt at poisoning a blade. Sometimes playing a bit more carefully and thinking twice really will promote character longevity.
Dying to creatures you try to tame is also somewhat shameful, especially if they're not particularly nasty.
Getting knocked out by a crippled beggar, and then slowly dying to it. Only a few few few rooms away from a safe zone.
Being slain by an NPC you wrote with a weapon you designed! The horror... the shame.
Nodding to a 'Nakki noble. (Yeah, try frickin' covering that one up. Oy.)
Getting myself and two other people killed by an NPC allied to our..group, because I didn't know the other NPC I was attacking apparently outranked me, or even had any affiliation with our group.
After several years of playing, every few characters I still manage to not think, and try to walk along the Shield Wall during a sandstorm, while not playing a ranger.
Oh yeah... I once special apped a character I really wanted to play for a couple years only to get it killed within hours by wearing something to expensive in the rinth..even though I consider myself something of an expert on what can be safely worn in the rinth.
Sorry, keep thinking of new ones and apparently I'm too lazy to edit my old posts...even as I type this, I could be going back and editing...and for some reason, I'm not..
Shame: I hardly ever emote while crafting. It's boring and I can't seem to get into it.
"Hit kank me"
Beep!
Welcome to Armageddon!
I once had an IC meeting in a dangerous place with an Imm-powerd NPC, I got there and killed a few pretty strong things trying to follow me. I wish up to let them know I'm here, but sadly, they had to go do something IRL. I turn around and start heading back to a safe place with my powerful warrior PC. I get about half way back and I died.. to something pretty easy to take down, because I fell into a hole and got knocked out.
Meeting with very important people and realizing that you have your pants in your inventory and you're naked from the waist down is always a classic for me.
Lost a good PC to someone's tinkery.
Quote from: Malken on August 03, 2008, 12:01:03 PM
Meeting with very important people and realizing that you have your pants in your inventory and your naked from the waist down is always a classic for me.
I once hosted an auction in a room just chock full of nobles and templars. Neglected to notice that my character wasn't wearing pants until literally a minute before going up onstage.
Quote from: Fathi on August 03, 2008, 01:17:28 PM
I once hosted an auction in a room just chock full of nobles and templars. Neglected to notice that my character wasn't wearing pants until literally a minute before going up onstage.
Only cool if said character was pantsless due to IC events.
Quote from: brytta.leofa on August 03, 2008, 02:25:51 PM
Quote from: Fathi on August 03, 2008, 01:17:28 PM
I once hosted an auction in a room just chock full of nobles and templars. Neglected to notice that my character wasn't wearing pants until literally a minute before going up onstage.
Only cool if said character was pantsless due to IC events.
Too bad you can't "hide" under tables....
>south
A Private Room Behind the Bar [north]
The tall, back robed man stand from the table, seemingly embarrassed.
>l tall
[he is not wearing any pants]
The short red-headed vixen reveals herself from under the table.
>l short
[she is completely naked]
Passing out from Way strain in the middle of a crowded area with a leader PC who you've been playing for months IRL.
Playing a Middle ranked PC and being so drunk that i had to be carried back to the compound... the leader needed us somewhere fast, so after falling about 30 times to go 4 rooms to the stables, I climbed on my mount and was able to get to my beetle.
The bad part was that i could ride just fine, and forgot that I was drunk, so when i got to the leader, as soon as I dismounted I tried following him to the next room and fell over again.
So this is what I did...
>sleep
>change ldesc is he passed our and reeking of alcohol.
Ordering a Gith to follow me, and go attack an NPC down the road.
Forcing the Gith to rescue me from the NPC when I was getting hurt.
Forcing the Gith to kick the NPC.
Running away after the Gith dies to the NPC.
Getting another Gith and going to go attack the same NPC.
Repeat x5.
I was playing a PC who was killed in like three hits during a Luirsfest tournament more a year or more ago.
Quote from: Vessol on August 03, 2008, 07:36:26 PM
I was playing a PC who was killed in like three hits during a Luirsfest tournament more a year or more ago.
What do you know! So was I.
(Although I got awarded a posthumous third place prize, so it's not entirely shameful!)
Quote from: Wicked on August 03, 2008, 04:09:47 AM
Trying to LOOK down off a spot high up, and forgetting to type the 'l' before hitting 'd' and plummeting over the edge.
Losing a one year and a half old character to this, save I was Looking south and instead just walked over the edge.
One of my favorite Rinthi characters drank a strange liquid for absolutely no good reason. *BEEP*
My most favorite Rinthi character attacked someone in an area protected by crime-code, for a trivial reason. Firstly, I wasn't aware that particular spot was protected by crime-code. Secondly, I thought I had no save arrest in it's proper position. Apparently not. *BEEP* Additional shame: this character had (a couple RL hours prior) just survived a situation where I thought his death was certain.
I had a new character with pretty good stats, so instead of doing my usual stupid with the character, I had him dutifully grind for coins until the guy was twinked out with decent armor. Marched to a distant location to enlist with an available Byn Sargent. One RL hour after enlistment, he was drunk out of his mind and so was unable to flee from the city guards after he tried brawling in a tavern without brawlcode implemented.
People were going OOC: "Type nosave arrest on. Type flee". I had already done so, frantically. Kept tripping due to extreme intoxication. The character's last words were, "Oh well." *BEEP*
My first magicker, who was actually a special app I waited like a month and a half on.
Anyways, I play him for like 3 months rt, don't know how many days played, but he had all sortsa spells at the highest level and was actually somewhat dangerous for being a vivaduan.
I confused and forgot the sequence for a spell that created an item for me, and cast a spell that harmed me, at full power, and knocked myself out.
Came to to see a scrab, which I normally could obliterate, go
A scrab wounds your neck
BEEP
My first ranger I spent tons of time grebbing salt to get weapons, armor and a mount. I then go out to get some scrab and fall off the shield wall. I then wander elf lands until a anakore raped me. What did I learn? Never spam walk when anywhere NEAR the Shield Wall, ever since I have gone one room at a time and always double checked which way the road was.
Krath and his fucking minions killed my one and only mage at less than a day, for ... well, nothing.
To be fair, it was an accident.
My longest living, most interesting and most powerful character ever was killed by a snake.
So I had this assassin with uber stats...like everything above extremely good. He was supposed to be a poor, dirty scumbag, so I was intentionally keeping him poor by buying tattoos/spice/other expensive perishable items.
Well, I had worked my way back up to about 800 'sid by finding dead newbie corpses, and I run across this NPC who attacks me and barely kicks my ass.
For -some- stupid reason, I got all worked up about it, and I decide to go buy a bunch of armor and decent weapons to kick this NPC's ass. I guess I figured the only reason he spanked me was because of my complete lack of gear.
So I go back for round two, and the fucker aces me -hardcore-. I mean, I was reel-locked from the first stab. Zero chance of escape.
Boy, that was fucking embarrassing.
=============================
Another time, we're out on this Byn contract to kill this giant, really dangerous monster. We go out with like 3 half-giants, a unit of Bynners, with some Tors or Borsails tagging along. When we start fighting the damn thing -nobody- can touch it. I mean, its defense is so pumped that it's even dodging the half-giants. So, being an assassin, I figure "hey, maybe I can throw stuff at it." So I have like 5 throwing knives/chatkchas, and I toss them all. Unfortunately, this only gets it to about moderate condition...so I pick them all up out of the room and repeat. Probably about 5 times.... ::)
So now, it's at terrible condition, and I'm like, "hell yeah, I'm going to ace this thing with a sweet-ass backstabby coup de grace." Of course, I miss, and the HG that was tanking flees out...and I get chomped in two bites. :'(
I've heard Synthesis weave this tale before, and boy, it never gets old. Epic. ;)
Quote from: Synthesis on August 04, 2008, 02:01:27 AM
Another time, we're out on this Byn contract to kill this giant, really dangerous monster. We go out with like 3 half-giants, a unit of Bynners, with some Tors or Borsails tagging along. When we start fighting the damn thing -nobody- can touch it. I mean, its defense is so pumped that it's even dodging the half-giants. So, being an assassin, I figure "hey, maybe I can throw stuff at it." So I have like 5 throwing knives/chatkchas, and I toss them all. Unfortunately, this only gets it to about moderate condition...so I pick them all up out of the room and repeat. Probably about 5 times.... ::)
So now, it's at terrible condition, and I'm like, "hell yeah, I'm going to ace this thing with a sweet-ass backstabby coup de grace." Of course, I miss, and the HG that was tanking flees out...and I get chomped in two bites. :'(
I'm pretty sure I was on that same Byn contract. I just remember thinking...damn we are all going to get chomped by this thing...until I saw a bunch of throwing weapons slowly chipping away at it. I was all impressed...you know, until the ultimate chomping took place.
Quote from: Forest Junkie on August 03, 2008, 03:51:38 AM
Desertman was once killed by a beggar. With a bowl.
Hey, I was going to tell that story!!!
(To be fair to me, I didnt know the flee command existed, and I was unarmed)
Quote from: Desertman on August 04, 2008, 12:34:59 PM
Quote from: Forest Junkie on August 03, 2008, 03:51:38 AM
Desertman was once killed by a beggar. With a bowl.
Hey, I was going to tell that story!!!
(To be fair to me, I didnt know the flee command existed, and I was unarmed)
I think that makes it all the more hilarious. :D
woops!
Quote from: Irulan on August 04, 2008, 12:31:19 PM
Quote from: Synthesis on August 04, 2008, 02:01:27 AM
Another time, we're out on this Byn contract to kill this giant, really dangerous monster. We go out with like 3 half-giants, a unit of Bynners, with some Tors or Borsails tagging along. When we start fighting the damn thing -nobody- can touch it. I mean, its defense is so pumped that it's even dodging the half-giants. So, being an assassin, I figure "hey, maybe I can throw stuff at it." So I have like 5 throwing knives/chatkchas, and I toss them all. Unfortunately, this only gets it to about moderate condition...so I pick them all up out of the room and repeat. Probably about 5 times.... ::)
So now, it's at terrible condition, and I'm like, "hell yeah, I'm going to ace this thing with a sweet-ass backstabby coup de grace." Of course, I miss, and the HG that was tanking flees out...and I get chomped in two bites. :'(
I'm pretty sure I was on that same Byn contract. I just remember thinking...damn we are all going to get chomped by this thing...until I saw a bunch of throwing weapons slowly chipping away at it. I was all impressed...you know, until the ultimate chomping took place.
To be fair, it was -ridiculously- fast, the giants had no chance. I was one of said giants. Ouch.
Quote from: DesertT on August 04, 2008, 01:50:48 PM
Quote from: Desertman on August 04, 2008, 12:34:59 PM
Quote from: Forest Junkie on August 03, 2008, 03:51:38 AM
Desertman was once killed by a beggar. With a bowl.
Hey, I was going to tell that story!!!
(To be fair to me, I didnt know the flee command existed, and I was unarmed)
I think that makes it all the more hilarious. :D
To make it better, the reason he killed me was I tried to...
Steal Pants
The only item the beggar had aside from his bowl.
This was back when you could still attempt to Steal things that you obviously wouldnt be able to get, such as a pair of pants someone was wearing while still awake.
First character: Burglar Died IN the jail cell. Fortunately I had read enough to turn nosave arrest on. but sitting alone in the jail cell, in the dark he A grabbed and lit a torch so he could look around. The guard opened up the jail cell and considered it a weapon.....
Second character: Ranger, killed by a ring-tailed jozhal, amen. No she wasn't weakened from fighting a scrab, or unarmed. She lost that fight fair and square.
Fleeing from a brown snake for your life and not being weakened by anything else.
I nearly died. Thank Krath that the snake didn't enter the wagon...
I LOVE having 35 year old ranger characters that cant kill snakes, yompars, or colt duskhorns.
It just makes me feel all warm inside.
I had a PC get knocked out by a beggar in one hit. Bastard had a wooden stick on him and hit my PC's head in the very first strike. I still reckon it was a dimension/time traveling shaolin monk of some sort.
Still, it took a good five or so minutes for him to slowly beat my unconscious elf to death.
I get excited when I find "newbie" torches laying on the ground.
Especially with my ranger pc's. I enter that mindset that "Everything is useful" in a survival situation.
It usually gets to that point where I look in my pack and see six torches and finally I just have to junk three or four, because its getting to be too much of a weight concern.
Quote from: Desertman on August 04, 2008, 04:42:51 PM
I get excited when I find "newbie" torches laying on the ground.
Especially with my ranger pc's. I enter that mindset that "Everything is useful" in a survival situation.
It usually gets to that point where I look in my pack and see six torches and finally I just have to junk three or four, because its getting to be too much of a weight concern.
Find a wilderness save room. most people won't bother with junk.
Quote from: FantasyWriter on August 04, 2008, 05:52:54 PM
Quote from: Desertman on August 04, 2008, 04:42:51 PM
I get excited when I find "newbie" torches laying on the ground.
Especially with my ranger pc's. I enter that mindset that "Everything is useful" in a survival situation.
It usually gets to that point where I look in my pack and see six torches and finally I just have to junk three or four, because its getting to be too much of a weight concern.
Find a wilderness save room. most people won't bother with junk.
Until some guy like me comes along and picks up all 24 of my newbie torches. Then what will I do?
I will only have the three I keep on me.
*shrug*
Find a secret spot in the wilderness, then.
Quote from: Desertman on August 04, 2008, 04:42:51 PM
I get excited when I find "newbie" torches laying on the ground.
Especially with my ranger pc's. I enter that mindset that "Everything is useful" in a survival situation.
It usually gets to that point where I look in my pack and see six torches and finally I just have to junk three or four, because its getting to be too much of a weight concern.
I once had a ranger that ran around salvaging a ton of gith gear in the Tablelands and then just sat in an abandoned wagon trying to craft torches.
I checked again, many months later, and the pile of stuff was still there.
Sorry, I cant risk it...
I think I will just special app a "Bone Studded Backpack of Holding"...yeah.
I wasn't paying attention during combat once.
I tabbed to another window or answered my phone or something for some reason.
When I returned my attention to Arm, my 82-days-played ranger had been KOed by a gurth.
My characters very rarely survive longer than 5 days played. Usually, their deaths are due to gross negligence on the part of their player. For example, a special app'd character of mine was quite thoroughly carru'd because I opted to take the time to look at the bastard. It seems like the more interest I have in the character, the higher the chance that character will die a horrible, shameful death to an NPC.
I've never killed a PC, and I don't think I've ever been responsible for the death of a PC even tangentially.
Also, I have never been killed by a PC. Ever. Even one time when my character was attacked by a PC first, the killing blow (according my account notes) was dealt by an NPC.
A magicker of mine casted a little too close to the gates of Red Storm.
Instagib.
I had a warrior in the rinth who was powerful enough to wear cool armor, get attacked by muggers, and flee with relative frequency. He wore the armor for IC reasons, and not for OOC powergaming. He was just offered some serious IC power. Shit was going great. Log in one day to a room with ten NPC's. Mercy happened to be on, and I didn't notice until the first one went down. Got bashed, end of story.
My first breed ever with fantastic stats (about 02-03..not too sure the exact year)
After just a little over 2 hour played, the breed found an awesome sword - a sigma of a sun on the pommel. Tried selling it in Salarri tent in Tuluk and for some reason the merchant was scared of my char. Next thing I know - stepped outside and there are a group of ninja soldiers waiting for me.
Sadly, I had no concept of nosave back then.
I still don't know why on earth they would pk my char for some honest trading. :P
Quote from: Me on August 05, 2008, 06:14:10 PM
My first breed ever with fantastic stats (about 02-03..not too sure the exact year)
After just a little over 2 hour played, the breed found an awesome sword - a sigma of a sun on the pommel. Tried selling it in Salarri tent in Tuluk and for some reason the merchant was scared of my char. Next thing I know - stepped outside and there are a group of ninja soldiers waiting for me.
Sadly, I had no concept of nosave back then.
I still don't know why on earth they would pk my char for some honest trading. :P
My first PC did the same exact thing during his first trip to Tuluk. Luckily, I ran like hell and eventually remembered to turn nosave arrest on (after punching a NPC templar. Whoops!) Got dragged into a cell, scared shitless. My dude fell to his knees and began groveling before the templar PC that came in to see him, just like he learned to in Allanak! I'll never forget the templar saying, disdainfully: "Show some restraint."
I have well over 150 characters. I've killed three of my own characters in one day.
I once got killed by a vestric. Thats right, a vestric.
I had a really fun d-elf with a lot of potential. He was out exploring some areas around his tribe with a very decent climb skill, but failed his check at the top of a 6-room mountaintop and plummeted to the bottom. He somehow survived the fall but didn't survive the hungry pack of beasties at the bottom.
*BEEP*
Quote from: mangler on August 06, 2008, 09:51:55 PM
I once got killed by a vestric. Thats right, a vestric.
CAN IT BE STORY TIME, OHST?
Quote from: Archbaron on August 06, 2008, 11:30:04 PM
I had a really fun d-elf with a lot of potential. He was out exploring some areas around his tribe with a very decent climb skill, but failed his check at the top of a 6-room mountaintop and plummeted to the bottom. He somehow survived the fall but didn't survive the hungry pack of beasties at the bottom.
*BEEP*
You didn't..try..scrambling for purchase? Hell when you're that high up, look at the price for failure man. Take a chance when you're plummeting half a mile down a cliff face. ;)
Quote from: manonfire on August 04, 2008, 09:35:33 PM
A magicker of mine casted a little too close to the gates of Red Storm.
Instagib.
hahaha. I remember that. :(
I once got to play a magicker, and somehow got trapped inside my employer's building. Being the newb I was, I stole a bunch of random items from the apartment and started wearing them, thinking I could leave the building when someone entered. I quit out inside, waiting for the right moment.
Unfortunately, that right moment passed me by and I entered the game world while one of the occupants was home. They quickly killed me off. I later asked to see the notes on my character and it was revealed to me that my male character had been wearing female clothing in the building. Apparently I was wearing a skirt and high heels, but didn't know it.
...*sigh*.
Quote from: Forest Junkie on August 06, 2008, 11:41:50 PM
Quote from: Archbaron on August 06, 2008, 11:30:04 PM
I had a really fun d-elf with a lot of potential. He was out exploring some areas around his tribe with a very decent climb skill, but failed his check at the top of a 6-room mountaintop and plummeted to the bottom. He somehow survived the fall but didn't survive the hungry pack of beasties at the bottom.
*BEEP*
You didn't..try..scrambling for purchase? Hell when you're that high up, look at the price for failure man. Take a chance when you're plummeting half a mile down a cliff face. ;)
Oh I did try, but failed each check... I really didn't think I would die, I was wearing climbing gloves, was holding a hook and a rope, and had a high climb skill from my subguild that I had beefed up.
Whoa, wait..holy crap. You fell six rooms, and failed scrambling for purchase multiple times, and when you hit the ground you -still- didn't die? Man..I envy the hp you must've had. :P
Quote from: Forest Junkie on August 07, 2008, 12:23:42 AM
Whoa, wait..holy crap. You fell six rooms, and failed scrambling for purchase multiple times, and when you hit the ground you -still- didn't die? Man..I envy the hp you must've had. :P
Yeah, that's another thing I missed about him. He had a crazy stat roll. :'(
Quote from: Mood on August 06, 2008, 11:36:15 PM
Quote from: mangler on August 06, 2008, 09:51:55 PM
I once got killed by a vestric. Thats right, a vestric.
CAN IT BE STORY TIME, OHST?
Sure it can, it was when I was a MAJOR noob, not just a plain noob like now, and I was playing like some indy grebber/woodcrafter guy and I had lust looted all this what seemed to me -SWEET- gear from some dead guy, and so I was as usual, chopping down trees to probably spam craft into chests or whatever nooby things I did, and this Vestric came into the square I was in, after reading its Mdesc.. it seemed to be pretty much a feathered rat, so I figured, heh.. its a rat, how can it challenge my full grown man.................. I figured wrong. Unfortuneatly.. I just couldn't hit the damn thing, but I had to sit and watch the painfully long combat as my character, who had run out of stamina due to my spam chopping, and had exceptional agility, dodge this little critters attacks time and time again, untill slowly... painfully, I was scratched to death. Man that was funny, and i'll never get over seeing it on my account notes, that made me laugh so hard.
****** has been killed by a black vestric, amen.
Responsable for a few NPCs added to the game world.
As a rather badass Nilazi, I logged in completely zonked one day, and for some reason I didn't think twice about casting
<blank> in the Red Storm stables. I guess I forgot where I was. But oh, those muls went apeshit on me.
Losing three of the most badass characters ever to falling asleep at the keyboard.
Getting stabbed for 80+ hp and then typing "say Try harder"
... I wasn't aware I had special apped Clint Eastwood.
I get ashamed every time I see my notes and the first character has "* died to a pot bellied-gurth, amen" next to it. IT WAS A RAPTOR, I SWEAR IT.
My Rangers get constantly OWNED by vestrics. Do not underestimate the vestric.
Constantly fainting from Way use with a 50 day+ PSI (How is that even possible? Though I did have the worst stat roll EVER).
Constantly fainting from Way use with a leader PC in public situations/in front of peers.
Getting lost around RS with MULTIPLE characters MULTIPLE times.
Generally being in a idiot with my longest lived, favouritist character of all time. A big idiot.
Quote from: Maso on August 20, 2008, 07:41:36 AMConstantly fainting from Way use with a leader PC in public situations/in front of peers.
Been there.
Often.
Hilariously.
Quote from: Maso on August 20, 2008, 07:41:36 AM
My Rangers get constantly OWNED by vestrics. Do not underestimate the vestric.
QFT.
Quote from: Maso on August 20, 2008, 07:41:36 AM
Constantly fainting from Way use with a 50 day+ PSI (How is that even possible? Though I did have the worst stat roll EVER).
Reminds me of playing by second and third PCs without prompts, just because i forgot they existed.
Realizing several days later that you probably lost that character because it was at very heavy encumbrance and you didnt drop items anytime during the fight or flight to lighten up.
A few years ago, I made an account and decided to make a merchant/scavenger in Tuluk. That stats were fucking amazing. I couldn't deal with the learning curve and wound up getting lost in the ruins. I let her die of thirst and didn't come back for 2 years.
Lost a sorcerer to a vestric.
Lost one of the most ridiculously powerful combat PCs ever (could two-shot carru) to the single most common and curable poison in the game.
Worked a dick joke into an emote once.
Almost put this in the bragging thread. :-\
Quote from: Medivh on August 19, 2008, 03:41:16 AM
Responsable for a few NPCs added to the game world.
Is that somehow shameful?
If those NPCs are in place to prevent future players from doing what you did, then yes.
Quote from: Zoltan on August 20, 2008, 07:00:01 PM
Worked a dick joke into an emote once.
Almost put this in the bragging thread. :-\
Is that somehow shameful?
Repeatedly stole, with failed attempts included, from an NPC templar.
Got one-shotted dead while sparring, with proper sparring weapons and with regular sparring conduct. I was winning, and had yet to be hit when I suddenly encountered the mantis head. :'(
Quote from: Kennath on August 22, 2008, 03:15:13 AM
Got one-shotted dead while sparring, with proper sparring weapons and with regular sparring conduct. I was winning, and had yet to be hit when I suddenly encountered the mantis head. :'(
Sparring a two-handed axe using half-giant? :-\
Quote from: Kennath on August 22, 2008, 03:15:13 AM
Got one-shotted dead while sparring, with proper sparring weapons and with regular sparring conduct. I was winning, and had yet to be hit when I suddenly encountered the mantis head. :'(
Lol, that's why every organization in the Known World has rules about fighting muls and half-giants.
Quote from: NoteworthyFellow on August 20, 2008, 07:52:27 AM
Quote from: Maso on August 20, 2008, 07:41:36 AMConstantly fainting from Way use with a leader PC in public situations/in front of peers.
Been there.
Often.
Hilariously.
WIth my first PC.. and I was sooo noob..... I tried Waying an NPC for the lord I was being hired to Aide for, and passed out... TWICE. In the same three hour span. :*(
Quote from: Kiri on August 24, 2008, 02:32:03 AM
Quote from: NoteworthyFellow on August 20, 2008, 07:52:27 AM
Quote from: Maso on August 20, 2008, 07:41:36 AMConstantly fainting from Way use with a leader PC in public situations/in front of peers.
Been there.
Often.
Hilariously.
WIth my first PC.. and I was sooo noob..... I tried Waying an NPC for the lord I was being hired to Aide for, and passed out... TWICE. In the same three hour span. :*(
Twice in three hours? IS THAT ALL? You had it easy.
Quote from: Maso on August 24, 2008, 06:20:39 AM
Quote from: Kiri on August 24, 2008, 02:32:03 AM
Quote from: NoteworthyFellow on August 20, 2008, 07:52:27 AM
Quote from: Maso on August 20, 2008, 07:41:36 AMConstantly fainting from Way use with a leader PC in public situations/in front of peers.
Been there.
Often.
Hilariously.
WIth my first PC.. and I was sooo noob..... I tried Waying an NPC for the lord I was being hired to Aide for, and passed out... TWICE. In the same three hour span. :*(
Twice in three hours? IS THAT ALL? You had it easy.
And the fun part is hearing the excuse they give for passing out.
"Oh, I, uh, have heart problems."
"I drank a little too much."
"I was testing the floor so I know how to properly throw myself out on it when my Lord Fancypants arrives."
Those are some I've actually heard that take the cake.
Being one of like 3 people that -hasn't- fainted from trying to use the Way with a new character. :P
Quote from: Maso on August 24, 2008, 06:20:39 AM
Quote from: Kiri on August 24, 2008, 02:32:03 AM
WIth my first PC.. and I was sooo noob..... I tried Waying an NPC for the lord I was being hired to Aide for, and passed out... TWICE. In the same three hour span. :*(
Twice in three hours? IS THAT ALL? You had it easy.
Yeah. Back when I was a noob we passed out every five minutes. And we liked it that way!
Quote from: AmandaGreathouse on August 24, 2008, 03:11:59 PM
Being one of like 3 people that -hasn't- fainted from trying to use the Way with a new character. :P
One time my cat decided to stand on the enter key on my keyboard right after I sent a psi. Whoever I was psi'ing saw about ten of the same messages before I passed out. Thankfully I was in a safe place.
Every time I've ever passed out due to the way, it was never with a newbie character, which just goes to show, I'm a dumbass.
I once bought two sterilite(sp) earrings from the shop in the Bazaar for 150 'sid a piece. I thought, huh, what are these. I googled them and found out they were metal earrings. I came back to see a longneck stealing one from me. I reported us.
Quote from: Ender on August 24, 2008, 10:14:42 PM
Quote from: AmandaGreathouse on August 24, 2008, 03:11:59 PM
Being one of like 3 people that -hasn't- fainted from trying to use the Way with a new character. :P
Every time I've ever passed out due to the way, it was never with a newbie character, which just goes to show, I'm a dumbass.
Usually I pass out on people who have been doing it the longest. I'll look at my stun and be like... "Hmm... 13... I can make it!"
When I got my first 'rinthi character, I led hostiles back to the mantis tavern. I was quickly slaughtered by the guards for being so stupid.
As a noob, tried to climb down a cliff (I'm pretty sure now it was the Shield Wall) with my bow and arrow still in my hands.
That did not work out so well.
I love your cunning Jayne Cobb hat.
Give it to me.
Mine.
Quote from: Ammut on August 28, 2008, 02:06:38 PM
When I got my first 'rinthi character, I led hostiles back to the mantis tavern. I was quickly slaughtered by the guards for being so stupid.
Strange, I did the same, but the guards butchered the hostiles... By the hostiles I mean that annoying hunched elf that fancies himself a mugger.
i am ashamed of the night that i met jack daniels
When I first started playing, I IM'd a helper (Barzalene?) asking something about why wasn't I getting any xp for all these NPCs I was killing in Allanak.
Sanvean sent me an admonishing e-mail.
That's brilliant, Khorm. where you like: "I should have at least four hundred hit points by now!"?
If only I could tell you...
(sadly) the most heartbreaking thing to of ever happened to me.
But. I'm also ashamed I forgot to fill up on water before going out into the desert with one of my favorite characters.
Recetly(past couple months) did that one, myself.
When I first started playing (I was fourteen, but the game was very different back then) I got hired by a templar, very kindly I might add, because I was ignorant of nearly every single command syntax.
The worst incidence I can recall we were sitting in the Trader's and he was trying to explain to me how to use the unseen way. I didn't understand why it didn't work the way it does in hack and slashes, immediately, and was a skill that had to be polished. So there I was, talking half IC in IC channels and half in OOC channels and half OOC in IC channels, miserably confused first how to arrange the syntax and then about the failure messages I was getting. Now I think back at that PC crowded tavern with shame.
Newbie way gets my aides every time. Once, also in Trader's, I was in contact with a noble I was hoping might hire my character and while discussing where and what time we could set up an interview, I passed out right before his eyes.
Awkward.
It took me long enough to wake up that I was late to the interview.
More recently nearly all my shame stems from absent mindedness.
Lost an old sorcerer, one of my most cherished characters, because I sipped from the wrong bottle and didn't have a cure handy. I still kick myself over that.
Quote from: path on January 27, 2010, 01:38:31 PM[...] I was ignorant of nearly every single command syntax.
My first PC was a ranger, back in the day. I joined the Byn, sparred a little, roleplayed my chores, got pretty confused. Contract came up, and the Sarge asked who could ride. Checking my skill list, yup, I sure could ride! I hop on the trust loaner kank and follow the Sarge out into the salt flats for about a room before lagging behind. He bitches at me, yells at me, says if I lag behind again it'll be my ass.
Promptly thinking "fuck you, asshat, I have ranger quit," I went north, east, and quit out.
Didn't play for a solid year and a half. Found the game again, logged in to my PC, and (now actually a halfway roleplayer) I wandered back to town, fearful of people figuring out I was a deserter. So - ha, I thought, I'll take off my aba and nobody'll know.
I left my patch on. Like an idiot. People knew.
- My first 30 characters were all expert assassins, according to their backgrounds, and they weren't shy about letting you know how much better than you they were either. At the end of those first 2 months on Armageddon, I decided that maybe I should just play them as if they were only novices.
- I'm on 130-some PCs in right around 5 - 6 years. (My novice assassins were still VERY cocky.)
- Quick killed 3 of my characters in a row. Each of them on a Friday night exactly one week after the previous had died.
- In the RPT in which the Mul Outpost was sacked, my 13 or 14 year old warrior AOD soldier
a) lagged behind the war party only 1 screen past the Dragon's Gate
b) got lost on the way to the RPT (Sharak told me to go east when I should've went west. I rolled with it)
c) Rode Lt. Paryl's purple kank off the shield wall killing it
d) Got chased to the RPT by a dujat
e) Upon arrival, was immediately KO'd by a club-swinging mul
f) Woke up and nearly died of dehydration because he hadn't packed water.
g) Was awarded a special medal for "Outstanding Bravery." :o ;D
- Same PC was insta-ganked by an NPC who had somehow wandered outside of the rinth. I figured I had time for a quick emote. Boy, was I wrong! It wasn't even a very strong NPC.
- My HG Legionaire/ Bard was killed by a single gortok (with no stam left to run away) before he could perform his latest song "Few have the balls of a Lyksae" as an apology for accidentally insinuating Lord Lyksae he had a tiny penis.
- An entirely different half-giant of mine fucked an elf. That's simply all I can really say about that...
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on January 27, 2010, 05:44:49 PM
- An entirely different half-giant of mine fucked an elf. That's simply all I can really say about that...
.. how is it possible?
QuoteQuote from: IAmJacksOpinion on Today at 04:44:49 PM
- An entirely different half-giant of mine fucked an elf. That's simply all I can really say about that...
.. how is it possible?
I'm not sure, but honestly that's the whole point if it being posted HERE, in the Thread of Shame.
First we discussed it in proportions ooc.
"If a 6 foot tall man averages a 6 inch cock, then a 13 foot tall HG averages 13 inches."
I thought she was just going to give him a handjob, (or arm job or whatever it would have to be. :P) and that's what it started out as. Soon, I could see that she was leading up to slipping it in, so I initiated an emote race to finish, but I wasn't quick enough and she mounted! Poor girl, must've been like sitting on a firehose. :o
To be fair though, I know I'm not the only player that's been in this or a similar scenario.
One time I tried to pee in Nyr's coffee.
But he caught me :-[
I had a dwarf who had sex with an elf.
Admittedly, he has a focus along the lines of finding out ways of killing people.
So he was sort of hoping she would bleed to death from it afterwards.
They discussed a price around anal sex for the next time, unfortunately, he didn't live to see if -that- would kill her.
You want to hear shame!?
One time, on the GDB, I discussed specific details about my half-giant fucking an elf!
Top that!
I had a character killed by a reanimated sparrow. I was told by San that the immortals believed it was a first. *blush*
Quote from: DustMight on January 27, 2010, 08:21:50 PM
I had a character killed by a reanimated sparrow. I was told by San that the immortals believed it was a first. *blush*
hahaha, that's funny.
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on January 27, 2010, 06:33:01 PM
QuoteQuote from: IAmJacksOpinion on Today at 04:44:49 PM
- An entirely different half-giant of mine fucked an elf. That's simply all I can really say about that...
.. how is it possible?
I'm not sure, but honestly that's the whole point if it being posted HERE, in the Thread of Shame.
First we discussed it in proportions ooc.
"If a 6 foot tall man averages a 6 inch cock, then a 13 foot tall HG averages 13 inches."
I thought she was just going to give him a handjob, (or arm job or whatever it would have to be. :P) and that's what it started out as. Soon, I could see that she was leading up to slipping it in, so I initiated an emote race to finish, but I wasn't quick enough and she mounted! Poor girl, must've been like sitting on a firehose. :o
To be fair though, I know I'm not the only player that's been in this or a similar scenario.
This is why I no longer play thieves that shadow people. You ruined it for me.
Quote from: Delstro on January 27, 2010, 09:37:13 PM
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on January 27, 2010, 06:33:01 PM
QuoteQuote from: IAmJacksOpinion on Today at 04:44:49 PM
- An entirely different half-giant of mine fucked an elf. That's simply all I can really say about that...
.. how is it possible?
I'm not sure, but honestly that's the whole point if it being posted HERE, in the Thread of Shame.
First we discussed it in proportions ooc.
"If a 6 foot tall man averages a 6 inch cock, then a 13 foot tall HG averages 13 inches."
I thought she was just going to give him a handjob, (or arm job or whatever it would have to be. :P) and that's what it started out as. Soon, I could see that she was leading up to slipping it in, so I initiated an emote race to finish, but I wasn't quick enough and she mounted! Poor girl, must've been like sitting on a firehose. :o
To be fair though, I know I'm not the only player that's been in this or a similar scenario.
This is why I no longer play thieves that shadow people. You ruined it for me.
well If you think about a maxed tall elf is 7' 5" vs a 13' tall hg. if, and omg only if he had an inch per foot 13" not hard to believe a 5' woman can take that, and I know. So perhaps an elf of that size would have no problem.
Lulz I don't want to think about it! :o
I am shamed to have read that.
I feel dirty.
My shame:
I thought >kick kank would spur it on. Thank God my Byn Sergeant saved me.
>l mantis
>think Oh shit! Mantis!
>draw sword;draw sword
>kill friend who is guarding me
I've murdered more than one pc because of mistaken identity. Sorry about that. Protip: don't name your shady characters after spooky things.
>look
a tall figure in a hooded dark cloak is here, bleeding lightly
>draw dagger
>draw dagger
a short figure in a hooded shit-cloaked arrives from the north
> backstab hooded (noob)
you stealthily approach your target...
a short figure in a hooded shit-cloaked gurgles and spits blood as you plunge your business in a meaty bit.
> disengage
laughing, a tall figure in a hooded dark cloak runs north
> say (eyes wide as he frantically flings ~dagger away, sending it skipping across stone) Oh fuck! I just..I just just panicked!
someone shouts from the north, "classic shit-cloak right there!"
say (as he swings his legs off ~table, grinning from ear to ear) I'm bored, let's go kill us an ankheg.
say (as she swings her legs off ~dude, grinning from ear to ear) I'm bored, let's go kill us a carru.
The freaking immobile dummy dodges your blow!
Quote from: satine on January 28, 2010, 05:12:06 PM
The freaking immobile dummy dodges your blow!
It must've swayed in the wind. ;)
My first delf, I fell off a cliff trying to climb it. I was passed out with half my hp I think.
About 20 seconds later *BEEP* Mantis head.
I'll never know what killed me :)
Haven't played a delf since and won't again for a while. It's too easy to explore with them. Easier to die from stupid shit like this haha.
Quote from: satine on January 28, 2010, 05:12:06 PM
The freaking immobile dummy dodges your blow!
I've gotten this with new chars a few times. I was actually excited. I missed! AMAZING.
Before I knew that trying to scramble for purchase when falling took HP, I spammed 'up' when falling a pretty far distance... And caught ahold one room before the bottom.
The problem? My character was mortally wounded at that point. Yes, scrambling for purchase incapacitated him. Suffice it to say that he summarily died.
Quote from: satine on January 28, 2010, 05:12:06 PM
The freaking immobile dummy dodges your blow!
I've seen masters miss. And it's always funny to me.
The sand-filled sparring dummy exclaimes in tribal accented sirihish:
"Ha ha!, you missed me!"
Hah. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the ever-popular:
Quote
kick dummy
A sand-filled sparring dummy grabs your leg and knocks you down!
0.001 / 100 / 120 sitting, fighting a sparring dummy>facepalm
wish all I can has cake?
wish all ... And eat it too plz?
I once saw a scrab -smirk- when a templar missed a blow at him.
Quote from: Aaron Goulet on January 29, 2010, 01:23:12 AM
Before I knew that trying to scramble for purchase when falling took HP, I spammed 'up' when falling a pretty far distance... And caught ahold one room before the bottom.
The problem? My character was mortally wounded at that point. Yes, scrambling for purchase incapacitated him. Suffice it to say that he summarily died.
My shame is that I've let the fear of that HP loss keep me from scrambling for purchase with every character I've had. Whenever I had to step off a cliff or go down a hole with a certain character, I'd just picture him flinging himself off the edge. And then he'd hit every rocky protuberance on the way down, Homer Simpson-style. "Well, I had to get down here -somehow-."
Quote from: FantasyWriter on January 29, 2010, 10:35:48 AM
I once saw a scrab -smirk- when a templar missed a blow at him.
that probably was the echo from wrist razors
in which case this would be your shame for not catching the echo
Had the same thing happen with a tembo! I spent the rest of that PC's life arguing with the dwarf I was with about whether or not the tembo actually smirked at us.
Shhh... you're killing the moment.
(yes, it was wrist razors, but still made me laugh out loud)
Quote from: account notes>contact halfling;cease;contact 2.halfling;cease;contact 3.halfling;cease;etc.
Good thing they weren't paying attention when, while bored, I contacted that other thing. Scary.
They were paying attention, actually. Every Way to a NPC is forwarded to staff.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on January 29, 2010, 06:09:51 PM
They were paying attention, actually. Every Way to a NPC is forwarded to staff.
But not every contact.
>Shoot beetle far west
Nothing is more deadly when you have your mount in the same room as you and you're aiming for the beetle to the far west.
The figure in a tattered brown hooded cloak is standing here
The figure in a dark hooded cloak is here, fighting the figure in a tattered brown hooded cloak
The figure in a dark hooded cloak is here, fighting the figure in a tattered brown hooded cloak
The figure in a dark hooded cloak is here, fighting the figure in a tattered brown hooded cloak
>Think uhhh...
>Kill figure
Not the best thing to do, since my friend was in the tattered cloak. And everytime I tried to help out I just kept making it worse.
>disengage
>Rescue 2.figure
You charge infront of the figure in a dark hooded cloak, and knock him out of the way!
You inflict a grevious wound on the figure in a tattered brown hooded cloak's neck with your slash
Definitely my most shameful moment evar. I still feel bad for that figure.
Kind of like having a pc thats really tall, and you friend pc is very short and the attacking pc is short, but the attacking pc has really long descriptors other than short and keeps popping in and out. Short is not a short cut to getting a head.
But maybe having your head be gotten.
While having a friendly way-talk with a templar who I'd been trying to get on good terms with... quite successfully...
...I managed to way a think, which included a rather prominent guild character of the time, as well as something along the lines of 'I hope this templar doesn't know.'
Needless to say, this ended any further templar friendliness.
Also, I managed to ride into a depression of sorts with my 18 day assassin with incredible stats. Then I managed to exhaust myself trying to climb back up, and figured it would be a good idea to sleep JUST A MOMENT and recover enough to try climbing again. It wasn't a hard climb. Woke up to a desert elf attacking, and NEARLY won the fight with bare fists, but forgot to actually equip my weapon. Mantis head. ::) (I was right next to a city, too. DUH.)
One of my first characters. An elf in Nak. I think I hadn't even bothered to read the docs at this point, but vaguely remember that I could actually emote. Walking around Nak, ends up in the viv temple I think. Kills the NPC there. Takes the gem and I think "Ooooooh treasure!".
Walks into the Gaj trying to sell the gem, not understanding why no one will buy it. Saying things like, "why don't you want my treasure? This is worth thousands of dollars.". Templar finds me, I am soon dead.
******
One of my second characters. Gets arrested (back when they took all your shit and left you in a loin cloth which was awesome). For some reason a Borsail noble/person/whatever takes pity on me and gives me job. I gets outfitted in all the pretties and then he tells me *specifically* not to go to a specific place in Allanak but neglects to mention where this place is. I of course wander there and attempt to walk through it and die.
******
Next character (maybe these are out of order, I don't know), elf in Tuluk, during Naki occupation. Wanders around, finds a little barracks guarded by two half-giants who happen to not be guarding the entrance. Enters the barracks, finds a bunch of sweet cloaks and weapons. Black Militia cloaks. Jade emblazoned weapons. Jade cross armor. Sweet. Wears it all, wanders around the city. Templar finds me. Dead.
******
Borsail Wyvern. Gets bored of sitting in the compound. Decides to becomes a spice dealer. Rides south, sees some tents or a village or something with skulls mounted on the gates. Thinks, "I wonder if that is redstorm?". Enters. Dies.
*****
(Much later)
Played a templar. Rping training a mage. Ask him to cast a specific spell on a sparry dummy for rp purposes. Then cast another spell on the dummy. Dummy comes to life, starts killing everyone. Angry imms.
*****
(Much, much later)
Same templar is in a meeting with with NPC Imm. Getting yelled at. Think "We're alone aren't we? No guards...hmmm...yea, a little fire will shut him up". Cast spell, and before I could draw my weapon they had lightly tapped my head twice without getting out of their chair, knocking me out. That didn't go over well.
******
(Much, Much later) Played an elven assassin bynner. Near-maxed backstab, branched parry, uber hide feeling bad ass. Someone tells me oocly, do you know if you are falling you can scramble for purchase? I say no, awesome. Climb a building in tuluk. Jump off and spam u;u;u;u;u to test it, not realizing that scrambling causes your hp to go down. Hit the ground with like -2 hp (poor endurance) bleeds out.
So much shame. So little time.
My biggest shame: Back in my newbie days!
I had a concept with two other players, to do a family role of three brothers which turned into five brothers without changing the background at all.
I made the first brother, died. Apped the same character, same background/desc, and changed 2 words on the short desc to get approved and get in game to DIE AGAIN.
THEN I apped the same character ONCE AGAIN with all the same things as the 2nd character, with only a different spelling for the name.
... And that brother lived to see the other brothers die.. to beetles...
The biggest shame in this whole thing? IT ALL HAPPENED IN ONE DAY (24 hours)! I got all three approved in one day, and two deaths in one day... 8)
Had a seven day assassin get killed by a templar for murder. Well, multiple murders.
He had attempted to save the victim of one of the murders. He was <doing not inherently dangerous> thing with them.
He had never even killed anyone before.
:'(
Quote from: MeTekillot on February 02, 2010, 08:54:23 PM
Had a seven day assassin get killed by a templar for murder. Well, multiple murders.
He had attempted to save the victim of one of the murders. He was <doing not inherently dangerous> thing with them.
He had never even killed anyone before.
:'(
Impressive.
QuoteWalks into the Gaj trying to sell the gem,
You were marked for greatness!
I don't want to say, too shameful. My character died though.
Im sorry.
If I remember rightly, one of my characters had the word penis in her mdesc. Was a good conversation starter.
Quote from: Booya on February 04, 2010, 09:00:19 AM
If I remember rightly, one of my characters had the word penis in her mdesc. Was a good conversation starter.
Like the immature adult I am a quick read of this had me just laughing at the thought of how penis could be used in a Mdesc, I found myself reading it again just a second ago and.. well.. it struck me that I missed a very important pronoun. I lawled harder.
Rukkian.. Not a very badass one but she tried a lot. She had an agreessive spell she had and she decided to try hunting down a jozhal with it.
1. Go find one jozhal with your HUGE mount.
2. Cast the area effective spell.
3. ????
4. Get eaten. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 obsidian coins. (Reel lock)
Quote from: Booya on February 04, 2010, 09:00:19 AM
If I remember rightly, one of my characters had the word penis in her mdesc. Was a good conversation starter.
I'd like to see that mdesc in a year =P
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on February 04, 2010, 02:55:02 PM
Quote from: Booya on February 04, 2010, 09:00:19 AM
If I remember rightly, one of my characters had the word penis in her mdesc. Was a good conversation starter.
I'd like to see that mdesc in a year =P
I don't know why, but the first time I read that, my brain registered sdesc, not mdesc. I was amused.
There has been a character with the word penis in the sdesc. It was pretty epic.
the walking penis?
what a shame i could not see that moment
The figure in a dark hooded cloak whispers to you, hissing in excitement, in rinthi-accented sirihish,
"Bag him!"
Quote from: evil_erdlu on February 04, 2010, 02:43:34 PM
Rukkian.. Not a very badass one but she tried a lot. She had an agreessive spell she had and she decided to try hunting down a jozhal with it.
1. Go find one jozhal with your HUGE mount.
2. Cast the area effective spell.
3. ????
4. Get eaten. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 obsidian coins. (Reel lock)
I lost a 20 day Rukkian to that spell for forgetting to unhitch my mount in another room.
Quote from: FantasyWriter on February 04, 2010, 05:36:05 PM
Quote from: evil_erdlu on February 04, 2010, 02:43:34 PM
Rukkian.. Not a very badass one but she tried a lot. She had an agreessive spell she had and she decided to try hunting down a jozhal with it.
1. Go find one jozhal with your HUGE mount.
2. Cast the area effective spell.
3. ????
4. Get eaten. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 obsidian coins. (Reel lock)
I lost a 20 day Rukkian to that spell for forgetting to unhitch my mount in another room.
Protip> it can't attack you if you're on its back.
Of course, the imms might decide to have it react unkindly to your malfeasance at a later date.
Quote from: a strange shadow on February 04, 2010, 05:13:34 PM
There has been a character with the word penis in the sdesc. It was pretty epic.
It wasn't just in the sdesc it was the focal point of it. It was something like "the walking penis"
Quote from: Synthesis on February 04, 2010, 05:39:16 PM
Quote from: FantasyWriter on February 04, 2010, 05:36:05 PM
Quote from: evil_erdlu on February 04, 2010, 02:43:34 PM
Rukkian.. Not a very badass one but she tried a lot. She had an agreessive spell she had and she decided to try hunting down a jozhal with it.
1. Go find one jozhal with your HUGE mount.
2. Cast the area effective spell.
3. ????
4. Get eaten. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 obsidian coins. (Reel lock)
I lost a 20 day Rukkian to that spell for forgetting to unhitch my mount in another room.
Protip> it can't attack you if you're on its back.
Of course, the imms might decide to have it react unkindly to your malfeasance at a later date.
Um... pretty sure you're wrong.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on February 04, 2010, 02:55:02 PM
Quote from: Booya on February 04, 2010, 09:00:19 AM
If I remember rightly, one of my characters had the word penis in her mdesc. Was a good conversation starter.
I'd like to see that mdesc in a year =P
I posted this in the wrong thread..it was meant to be a brag!
Unfortunately I don't have her mdesc anymore...and it's probably funnier left in your imagination.
But... she was a Nakki called Sza/Szalix, the wild-haired woman. Around in July 2005.
Bit of an animal, and she had a tattoo of a naked man with an impossibly large penis tattooed somewhere prominent on her body (I think on her arm.). I had a great time with her.
Nah, I was talking about an actual character, not the walking penis that got smited.
[How did you not think this was IC info? As your username suggests, I changed the message here. -Shalooonsh]
At least I changed boat to 'skimmer,' but yeah.
Take a good hard look at the motherfucking skimmer!
Quote from: Change on February 05, 2010, 02:48:18 PM
[Really? You should have noticed this and not quoted it. -Shalooonsh]
At least I changed boat to 'skimmer,' but yeah.
Take a good hard look at the motherfucking skimmer!
This would be so annoying on an OOC scale, I'd certainly kill your character with my character.
I totally just remembered a moment... and now that I think about it. It's pretty embarassing.
My very first character was mute.
He then got a girl to like him, even mate with him.
But... my dumbass still didn't understand the syntax to well or how to do anything really...
>sex woman
>have sex woman
>use dick woman
>sleep woman
>sleep with woman (I went to sleep a few times)
Oh... I feel like a dumbass. I never figured it out either. I think we both went our seperate ways without a single word.
...dude...that's....awesome! ;D
Quote from: Chettaman on February 05, 2010, 03:26:38 PM
But... my dumbass still didn't understand the syntax to well or how to do anything really...
>sex woman
>have sex woman
>use dick woman
>sleep woman
>sleep with woman (I went to sleep a few times)
That's too funny. ;D
Quote from: Chettaman on February 05, 2010, 03:26:38 PM
I totally just remembered a moment... and now that I think about it. It's pretty embarassing.
My very first character was mute.
He then got a girl to like him, even mate with him.
But... my dumbass still didn't understand the syntax to well or how to do anything really...
>sex woman
>have sex woman
>use dick woman
>sleep woman
>sleep with woman (I went to sleep a few times)
Oh... I feel like a dumbass. I never figured it out either. I think we both went our seperate ways without a single word.
I think we can all agree this man has won this thread.
Quote from: HTX on February 05, 2010, 08:30:16 PM
Quote from: Chettaman on February 05, 2010, 03:26:38 PM
I totally just remembered a moment... and now that I think about it. It's pretty embarassing.
My very first character was mute.
He then got a girl to like him, even mate with him.
But... my dumbass still didn't understand the syntax to well or how to do anything really...
>sex woman
>have sex woman
>use dick woman
>sleep woman
>sleep with woman (I went to sleep a few times)
Oh... I feel like a dumbass. I never figured it out either. I think we both went our seperate ways without a single word.
I think we can all agree this man has won this thread.
*Ding ding ding* ;)
Okay, here is how I lost my karma a long time ago. Which was subsequently returned, but albeit ... a very shameful act.
With a desert elf of mine I ran to the Blackwing camp, not the Outpost but their main camp. The clan had been closed down, but that doesn't mean their things were gone. So I went around and collected a bunch of things and put them into a metal-bound chest that was there.
Yes. Metal-bound.
So I loaded all this stuff into this incredibly valuable chest and tried to leave, well behold, the guards would not let me. My response to this? Wait until night time, and the guards won't see me in the storm. Perfect. Oh yeah, my movement points were rapidly depleting under my unbelievably heavy load. So I decided the best thing to do was mount a ratlon and ride it out. Night time comes and I ride this ratlon out the gates until it can't go any further and move a handful of rooms at a time, spamming past aggressive elves and critters on the way.
I then went ahead and sold the chest for like 8000 coins and got a nasty mudmail from Halaster.
The end.
Quote from: Chettaman on February 05, 2010, 03:26:38 PM
I totally just remembered a moment... and now that I think about it. It's pretty embarassing.
My very first character was mute.
He then got a girl to like him, even mate with him.
But... my dumbass still didn't understand the syntax to well or how to do anything really...
>sex woman
>have sex woman
>use dick woman
>sleep woman
>sleep with woman (I went to sleep a few times)
Oh... I feel like a dumbass. I never figured it out either. I think we both went our seperate ways without a single word.
That's solid gold. I didn't exactly have a grasp of the emoting code when my first character got his sexxx on. :-[ But... I feel much better that at least I didn't go scrambling for a coded command for it, so thanks for sharing. ;D
Man... I am so sorry for the other person involved. Please forgive me.
I actually know how to play this game now, so if you're still interested...
Without going into detail, as it was too recent, my character was on a little trip with some clan-mates, and after finding out his superior (who he had a bit of a crush on) was a lesbian, promptly thought about how disappointed he was to find this out.
Course I typed SAY THINK.
To compound the hilarity of the moment, the other people in the spot were speaking another language, and I have no idea what they made out of the ensuing spurt of OOC amusement.
To those who witnessed that moment: thank you for putting up with me.
I was once waying an assassin that his mark was sitting at the bar with me in the Sanctuary... I used 'talk' instead of 'psi'.
Quote from: FantasyWriter on February 07, 2010, 10:41:05 PM
I was once waying an assassin that his mark was sitting at the bar with me in the Sanctuary... I used 'talk' instead of 'psi'.
This shame belongs to another: I was once mis-wayed about a prospective hit. Thought it was hysterical, and told him it was his lucky day, as I'm not above murdering strangers for money. Unfortunately he couldn't afford me.
On a gemmer I was playing many years ago I was trying to way my shady buddy some shady info. He was something like thin, scar-faced man. So I contact scar and get something akin to the lithe, scar-faced man. After I realized my mistake I thought I'd be all slick and say something along the lines of:
"It'd be a good idea if you just forgot everything you heard if you know what's good for you."
Turns out the recipient of my mis-way was a templar, and didn't really like being talked to that way :(.
One time my pals and I were attacking a lair of acidic beasts, and as the corpses piled up we started taking periodic acid damage from the presence of so many. Thinking quickly with the mighty power of being stoned, my excep-strength, poor-wisdomed hero picked up all the corpses and chucked the one-by-one out of the room. The imm who inflicted body-wide acid burns on my PC was presumably not impressed.
I was cool with it, though. I very much loved having the game's only full set of blackened black brigandine. BLACKER THAN BLACK.
My first pc was a Tuluki. Over the course of about 1.5 IG years, she managed to wind up with feelings for a breed (Hawk), an invisible sorcerer who would visit her occasionally, and a noble (Zalranris Tenneshi). Of course, she knew how fucked all of that was, so she never 'quite' acted on any of them. But I pity the staffer, if one did, that came across her out in the scrub at night, masturbating to fantasies of ginka fruit and said noble. [Too, too much fun.]
Once upon a time, during an important RPT, I did a think involving a certain noble lady which I forgot about already, except instead of think, I put emote.
I hate those typos. :/
Quote from: AmandaGreathouse on February 09, 2010, 05:15:00 AM
Over the course of about 1.5 IG years, she managed to wind up with feelings for a breed (Hawk), an invisible sorcerer who would visit her occasionally, and a noble (Zalranris Tenneshi).
Hawk was a'right, for a 'breed.
I once received a beautifully written kudos that complimented my willingness to have flawed characters and thanked me for having the courage to let my character mess up in front of so many people and with such cute realism.
It wasn't intentional. I just fucked up. :'(
I've always been afraid to masturbate. If not the fear of being caught with my pants down. The fear of...
Someone sends you, please fade already.
Quote from: jstorrie on February 09, 2010, 12:15:15 AM
One time my pals and I were attacking a lair of acidic beasts, and as the corpses piled up we started taking periodic acid damage from the presence of so many. Thinking quickly with the mighty power of being stoned, my excep-strength, poor-wisdomed hero picked up all the corpses and chucked the one-by-one out of the room. The imm who inflicted body-wide acid burns on my PC was presumably not impressed.
I was cool with it, though. I very much loved having the game's only full set of blackened black brigandine. BLACKER THAN BLACK.
I love everything about this story. I'm even a little in love with you.
Quote from: Chettaman on February 09, 2010, 12:10:40 PM
I've always been afraid to masturbate. If not the fear of being caught with my pants down. The fear of...
I thought that was me! So damn annoying sometimes.
edit: Err... this isn't the idle complaints thread. :-[
I've had a character or two spank their monkey IG more than a couple times... I pretty much only do it if I really have that much idle time with my character and I want to get their mindset about certain things. I always hope they'll get caught, too!
Speaking of spanking monkey, I don't think I've ever emoted it out, but I frequently use hidden porn cache's to justify twinking my clanned assassin's slight of hand. ;D (Especially young ones and Half-Giants.)
Also, I like finding weird times to pee. I've left trails of moist sand behind Argosy, peed off the Barrel balcony, and even took a piss break mid-flight while my Whiran was flying around with a Templar.
- Asked to stop using emoticons when talking like :) - 7/26/01
Not one of my best comments.
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on February 12, 2010, 02:13:06 AM
Also, I like finding weird times to pee. I've left trails of moist sand behind Argosy, peed off the Barrel balcony, and even took a piss break mid-flight while my Whiran was flying around with a Templar.
I can't believe I'm asking this. How do you pee in this game?
Quote from: janeshephard on February 14, 2010, 10:10:07 AM
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on February 12, 2010, 02:13:06 AM
Also, I like finding weird times to pee. I've left trails of moist sand behind Argosy, peed off the Barrel balcony, and even took a piss break mid-flight while my Whiran was flying around with a Templar.
I can't believe I'm asking this. How do you pee in this game?
Emotes, nice creative ones.
Edited to be on topic: Though I'm too much of a newbie to get into specifics, rest assured my first two characters ended in ignominious deaths.
That post was shameful.
I think you could use pee trails using the "scribble" command.
>A few wet lines are here, spelling a name.
I once accidently spam walked past the Kuraci elf Tears.
I realized this and walked back into the room and emoted coming from the opposite direction.
He bashed me and killed me.
This is shameful because I could have gotten away!
With my first char, a few years ago when I first tried Armageddon, I wanted him to be a dodgy dealing merchant scammer kinda guy.
After running around 'Nak without a clue for a few days, I decided to go to a place where I thought I could "do some dodgy deals". Of course, being a newb, I had inferred
that I should go to the 'Rinth, from the docs.
I really had a bad feeling walking in there, and of course, after I tried talking to two NPCs, they went aggro on me, and then chased me down the alleyways, killing me in a few swift hits.
To top it off, my character was..... A Half-Elf, Guild Merchant, subguild Conman.
Oh, and his parents were merchants (!) that brought him up together (!) in 'nak. (As in ...an elf and human FAMILY)
Not the best first char concept, I tell you.
^
Heh, you think that's a bad first character concept, I'm pretty sure my first character was a bard who thought it was a good idea to hunt tembos with a flint knife, y'know, to bring in a bit of profit on the side...
:(
My first three characters all got punched to death by a beggar.
The SAME beggar.
Was wandering around Allanak nailing couches to ceilings using the arrange command. Was told to cut it out and fix the changes he had made. - 8/04/09
First account note.
Quote from: HailTheAbyss on February 28, 2010, 07:38:49 PM
Oh, and his parents were merchants (!) that brought him up together (!) in 'nak. (As in ...an elf and human FAMILY)
Not the best first char concept, I tell you.
How did this even get approved?
Quote from: MeTekillot on March 07, 2010, 01:32:52 AM
Was wandering around Allanak nailing couches to ceilings using the arrange command. Was told to cut it out and fix the changes he had made. - 8/04/09
First account note.
That's awesome!
Quote from: kuhfelsen on March 08, 2010, 07:30:11 AM
Quote from: HailTheAbyss on February 28, 2010, 07:38:49 PM
Oh, and his parents were merchants (!) that brought him up together (!) in 'nak. (As in ...an elf and human FAMILY)
Not the best first char concept, I tell you.
How did this even get approved?
Quote from: DocsIf you are new to Armageddon MUD, you should be aware that many half-
elves are the product of rape, but this does not mean that you should
feel obliged to make your character the result of such an act.
Many (not all) Half-elves are the product of rape. Which means some are the result of consensual sex.
Touche'
I once saw a guy break into the house just north of what was then the Bard's Barrel. Because my character was a murderous jerk, I followed him in and killed him, just to get a feel for killing another player. It left me feeling empty and sad.
I once invited a friend to play a role, but he kept doing dumb things so I had to order him killed.
I blamed it on the player who executed the order being a twink.
He quit playing the game for quite a long time, complaining about all the twinks. :-[
Way back in my noob days I once died to a tregil and maybe even a vestric or two.
I suppose this is the correct thread to post this in. I'm not proud of this and it took me quite some time to redeem myself. I had a fairly salty half-elf assassin that was working as a spy for the north. Said assassin was double-crossed and in turn ended up in the arena in 'Nak. I was given very little in the way to defend myself and death was all but certain. In attempting to make the most out of my death my character shouted this out right before the mantis head was seen,
"FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Took me quite some time to earn back the trust I lost and my account notes do reflect my love for Braveheart.
I tried walking over to a room, and climb code was auto-initiated without my consent.
Isn't there a consent rule for this stuff!? xD
Quote from: mattrious on March 18, 2010, 08:11:02 AM
"FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Old son,
every northern patriot who dies in the Arena hollers that. Every single one.
Quote from: Saellyn on March 18, 2010, 08:51:30 AM
I tried walking over to a room, and climb code was auto-initiated without my consent.
Isn't there a consent rule for this stuff!? xD
You land on your neck!
lol
nosave mudsecks
You are no longer making saves for mudsecks.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on March 19, 2010, 02:18:38 PM
Here's my brag - I had a militia PC (lifesworn) who betrayed his city-state to join the other - Then betrayed -that- city-state to join the Plainsman, in one day.
The same PC died a real-life day later, his head most likely cut from his body and delivered to the first city-state he betrayed.
What bites is that he was mere in-game days away from going somewhere "safe" and hopefully getting involved with alot of awesome sekrit plots.
I don't know... I know running out of stamina during a tembo chase is always REAAAAAALLY bad for new chars. Also, my first char play IG was also my first experience with poison. That was... fun.
But falling off the cliff is about as shameful as it gets, man. That shows that not ONLY was I a moron at the time, but that the code EXPLICITLY wanted to kill me.
Quote from: FantasyWriter on March 24, 2010, 05:49:22 PM
I think my login record was 22 hours when Sorn Tallid, myself, and the rest of the crew got lost and seperated in the middle of the tablelands.
God, I wish I could remember that Vivaduan's sdesc or name. He was the first magicker that I was around for extended periods, and he was just plain awesome, especially after dragging my Krath-Struck, exausted bum all half the way back to Nak.
I typed 'n' instead of 'l n' and set all of that in motion. Several hours later, I had to go afk for half an hour or so. I swear I was mounted and following, but I wasn't thinking entirely clearly by that point, so I may well not have been. When I got back, everyone was still right where I'd left them. I never had the guts to ask if they'd just been waiting for me all that time, especially as it was all my fault to begin with, but the shame has haunted me ever since. :-[ Worst. Outing. Ever.
The magicker's nickname was Slappy. He was the fat, cherubic man, and also completely awesome.
I once fell off a giant cliff and survived...and then promptly got eaten by a mantis.
Quote- -- Acrimar (the grim, graceful man) talks at their table: Are there any other cities out there? I've heard of this place called "All-Neck." Enjoying watching this one learn the world ICly. - 12/13/08
Ahh, how far I've come. I just need to find Seen-her now.
I once had a 7 day warrior who was traveling for the first time from one major city to another and was alone. She was so proud of her glossy, black inix that she had just purchased. ... ... Until said inix decided he'd like to try to make like a verrin hawk and fly off a cliff instead of going the way she urged him in. So, with my PC upon his back, Mr. Inix flew off of the Shield Wall... or, rather, we plummeted like a boulder in a rock slide. When the ground met my PC to say, "Hi, would you like to look like I pancake?" I didn't die but got knocked out. Finally, after coming 'round my PC was all alone, she struggled to get up, looked around and saw Mr. I-think-I'm-Special-and-can-fly in the distance grazing happily as if nothing had ever happened. She went to retrieve him and instead was retrieved by a gith who wanted the freshly made brain soup in her skull from the fall. The end.
Awesome concept, awesome magicker. Nothing probably could kill him but I was always unbelieveably careful anyway and I was more into solo RP, I only killed scrabs when I craved for different food. As I travel one day to a spot out of the very light storm to perform some magicky stuff, I saw a look desc telling me that there's a huge fall just couple rooms away from me. I decided, "Eh, let's take a look down then move away for my solo-RP."
Seems the room I thought that was the 'edge' wasn't an edge in the literal meaning - still a fall room. I got really pissed that day because I had woken up willing to roleplay that day and if one of the ~10 people I tried to contact was online, I wouldn't go out to do something interesting.
I wonder what my account note says; "Died to gravity. Amen."?
I love how it's almost shameful among veteran players outside a military clan to initiate a request for a sparring match.
I do it anyways.
Quote from: Hot_Dancer on March 28, 2010, 12:57:17 PM
I love how it's almost shameful among veteran players outside a military clan to initiate a request for a sparring match.
I do it anyways.
Veteran players don't do it because it's dangerous, not because it's shameful.
The last thing you want to be is 20 hp down with someone in the room who -knows- they can kick your ass.
Quote from: Synthesis on March 28, 2010, 02:57:08 PM
Quote from: Hot_Dancer on March 28, 2010, 12:57:17 PM
I love how it's almost shameful among veteran players outside a military clan to initiate a request for a sparring match.
I do it anyways.
Veteran players don't do it because it's dangerous, not because it's shameful.
The last thing you want to be is 20 hp down with someone in the room who -knows- they can kick your ass.
In a nutshell..... I've gambled on it a few times before, but never unless I've got a good gut feeling about it.
No mishaps so far. :)
Done it quite a few times.
Never had a problem.
Though I figure most of them were with Hot_Dancers PC(s).
On a light derail: Been there. Doesn't happen in Arm so much though as other RPI's that boast
more frequent skill boosts at character generation. In Arm you usually know whose been around
longer when a confrontation looms.
Sometimes I pretend to be afk around players or characters I don't like. :-[
Quote from: Synthesis on March 28, 2010, 04:39:26 PM
Sometimes I pretend to be afk around players or characters I don't like. :-[
That explains it. :-\
Sometimes I afk around charactors or players I really like.
I afk alot.
Sometimes just because I'm interested in a few minutes of net surfing.
I afk a lot. Usually to smoke cigarettes since I can't smoke in my house. :(
Shield Wall Fall
My shame is about my first time falling off the Shield Wall. I had started in Tuluk and been skilling up with this guy, who decided to show me Allanak. I had never had a character go to Allanak before, in fact, I hadn't been much south of Luirs at all. So we went and starting killing gith for their knots of spice. We were by the Shield Wall when the game crashed. When I came back on, the other guy wasn't around. But a gith was. So I ended up fleeing over the Shield Wall. Not so shameful, so far.
I found a cart to rest in. Then, on foot, looked around a little. I saw a nomad. I wanted his swords (OOC'ly). Only when I attacked him, he was kicking my ass. So I fled to the cart. Rested. Attacked again. Rested, attacked again. Eventually he followed me into the cart. So I fled out. For whatever reason, he didn't follow me out. Completely twinkish, really.
A dwarf came along, riding the base of the Shield Wall. I convinced him the nomad had attacked me, so he killed the nomad and I took its swords. Then he let me walk with him, all the way to Tuluk. Thus saving my character's life (since I had absolutely no idea where I was). I never saw the dwarf go south again, I always wonder if that is when he left Nak for good.
While my character hadn't been in the Byn, and thus I don't have a proper "First Fall off the Shield Wall" story, the dwarf had been. His name was Thanos.
Several real life weeks later, my character became head of the Byn.
Quote from: Jingo on March 28, 2010, 11:43:43 PM
I afk alot.
Sometimes just because I'm interested in a few minutes of net surfing.
I just have both windows open, so I can instantly respond if needed. The screen wrap for Arm is perfect for a half-mushclient half-firefox screen.
I afk a lot.
Mostly because when I'm logged in for 8 hours, I can't actually spend all that time on the game, but I still want to be available for people who way me. I can't just log off, what if they try to contact me 5 minutes after I logged off and then I don't hear from them again for two real life weeks due to my offpeakness? :-\
The funny thing about chance and circumstance is...
Holy fuck. Went afk like 5 hours ago to do the dishes.
Went to sleep. Woke up. Had a cigarette. Came to the computer to check email. Noticed I'd wound up linkdead because I got autodisconnected in a quit room after however long afk. Because my dumb ass forgot to log out.
Quote from: AmandaGreathouse on March 29, 2010, 09:58:30 AM
Holy fuck. Went afk like 5 hours ago to do the dishes.
Went to sleep. Woke up. Had a cigarette. Came to the computer to check email. Noticed I'd wound up linkdead because I got autodisconnected in a quit room after however long afk. Because my dumb ass forgot to log out.
Been there. Done that.
At least you came back to a living character...right?
Quote from: Pale Horse on March 29, 2010, 11:39:30 AM
Quote from: AmandaGreathouse on March 29, 2010, 09:58:30 AM
Holy fuck. Went afk like 5 hours ago to do the dishes.
Went to sleep. Woke up. Had a cigarette. Came to the computer to check email. Noticed I'd wound up linkdead because I got autodisconnected in a quit room after however long afk. Because my dumb ass forgot to log out.
Been there. Done that.
At least you came back to a living character...right?
Yeah be thankful for that. I've gone afk, forgot about being logged in, fell asleep and walked up to my computer to see my unconscious pc dying from starvation and thirst. I waited it out for a while waiting to see if they'd pull out of it...they never did.
Fair enough.
OH!
With my first pc, Sira, I lost my internet while logged in and came back four days later to her outside the walls, LD, and only a little hungry/thirsty... right near where a carru usually hangs out... with a merchant.
Good job!
But seriously, I'm glad my pc didn't die last night.
Quote from: AmandaGreathouse on March 29, 2010, 09:58:30 AM
Holy fuck. Went afk like 5 hours ago to do the dishes.
Went to sleep. Woke up. Had a cigarette. Came to the computer to check email. Noticed I'd wound up linkdead because I got autodisconnected in a quit room after however long afk. Because my dumb ass forgot to log out.
Um... don't feel bad. I've been logged in, and mind you, when I'm logged in I am most of the time multi-tasking between reading the GDB and other things, but anyway... logged in before work, went off to the gdb or something, which covered my client, realized I needed to get going and closed the lid to my lap top... all without logging out. I have come home... three times that I can remember where I'm like, Dude! WTF! Why is Arm logged in?! Who's been using my computer?! And then I realize that it was me... 9 or so hours earlier. Never died from that though, thank god.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on March 29, 2010, 01:07:22 AM
Quote from: Jingo on March 28, 2010, 11:43:43 PM
I afk alot.
Sometimes just because I'm interested in a few minutes of net surfing.
I just have both windows open, so I can instantly respond if needed. The screen wrap for Arm is perfect for a half-mushclient half-firefox screen.
This.
Shame: After certain events changed the world, and I knew ICly where things were changed.... My brain was apparently on auto pilot, and I moved to a room that was no longer there. :-(
>look sharp
You look up at a sharp-eyed female prostitute.
>ask sharp sex
You say to a sharp-eyed female prostitute, in sirihish:
"sex"
>help prostitute
There is no help on topic 'prostitute'.
Quote from: AClockworkMelon on March 31, 2010, 06:28:35 AM
>look sharp
You look up at a sharp-eyed female prostitute.
>ask sharp sex
You say to a sharp-eyed female prostitute, in sirihish:
"sex"
>help prostitute
There is no help on topic 'prostitute'.
Bahaha...That ones hilarious. Pretty sure I'd have done the same when I first arrived as well.
Quote from: Akaramu on March 29, 2010, 04:51:38 AM
I afk a lot.
Mostly because when I'm logged in for 8 hours, I can't actually spend all that time on the game, but I still want to be available for people who way me. I can't just log off, what if they try to contact me 5 minutes after I logged off and then I don't hear from them again for two real life weeks due to my offpeakness? :-\
Going off topic for a moment, but if you use windows you can use a program called always-on-top from HERE (http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/). This allows you to press CTRL + SPACE on an application to stop it from disappearing when another window gains focus, thus you can surf the web and have a little tiny arm window available. You can press CTRL + SPACE on a window again to remove this effect.
Quote from: Nile on March 31, 2010, 06:44:33 AM
Quote from: AClockworkMelon on March 31, 2010, 06:28:35 AM
>look sharp
You look up at a sharp-eyed female prostitute.
>ask sharp sex
You say to a sharp-eyed female prostitute, in sirihish:
"sex"
>help prostitute
There is no help on topic 'prostitute'.
Bahaha...That ones hilarious. Pretty sure I'd have done the same when I first arrived as well.
Yep, me as well. :D
..I find myself having problems figuring out how to interact with other PC's when I can't just beat them up for disagreeing with me.
Better stick to long-lived warrior types..
Quote from: Hot_Dancer on April 02, 2010, 10:04:22 PM
..I find myself having problems figuring out how to interact with other PC's when I can't just beat them up for disagreeing with me.
Better stick to long-lived warrior types..
+1
Quote from: Hot_Dancer on April 02, 2010, 10:04:22 PM
..I find myself having problems figuring out how to interact with other PC's when I can't just beat them up for disagreeing with me.
Better stick to long-lived warrior types..
Definitely +1
Quote from: AClockworkMelon on March 31, 2010, 06:28:35 AM
>look sharp
You look up at a sharp-eyed female prostitute.
>ask sharp sex
You say to a sharp-eyed female prostitute, in sirihish:
"sex"
>help prostitute
There is no help on topic 'prostitute'.
Same thing, different story. Only problem is the one in Tuluk actually had a talk script, and she actually conned me out of fifty 'sid!
I once logged in drunk and got a long lived pc of mine killed, remade a pc that night and got accepted and logged in within an hour. Went to sleep and when I woke up and logged in I had forgotten all about the night before. I proceeded to wander into the Gaj talking and emoting as though I was still my 80 day ranger.. including reminding folks of my impressive rank. All the while wearing newb boots.
Quote from: Majikal on April 03, 2010, 07:46:47 PM
I once logged in drunk and got a long lived pc of mine killed, remade a pc that night and got accepted and logged in within an hour. Went to sleep and when I woke up and logged in I had forgotten all about the night before. I proceeded to wander into the Gaj talking and emoting as though I was still my 80 day ranger.. including reminding folks of my impressive rank. All the while wearing newb boots.
I took have learned the hard way about drunk gaming. ;)
I have never played a Bynner.
It's been over a year, so I can tell this story. Ashes gave my first character his noob hug and recruited me into Nak's militia. Ashes' emotes were so awesome and his character's aura was so impressive, I was convinced the he must be the leader of the militia and possibly one of the most deadly people in Nak (his character was, in fact, a fresh recruit that I was able to kick around the sparring ring on day 1 - his emotes still kicked my ass, though). My character was a ranger and Ashes assured me that there were plenty of crack shots in the militia. It sounded like the perfect place for a guy with a bow!
Thus began my life as a city ranger.
I used my wilderness skills so rarely (never branched a thing on a 15 day ranger) that usually just getting to whack a scrab around while on a patrol made me feel rugged and out-doorsy. Then, we got an awesome templar who really spent time on the soldiers and took us out on field trips all the time. She knew I was a ranger and one time took me out to hunt an elven magicker.
I had never really used the hunt skill before. This was exciting! I figured than an elf had a long stride and low and behold, here were tracks left by someone with a long stride. There were mount tracks leading into the area (obviously our beetles), but the long-strided tracks no doubt meant that we were just behind the elf! I led this poor templar in crazy zig-zags through the entire western desert. I could never tell which way the elf had gone, but I was always able to confirm that he HAD entered this area. It was mysterious, though. He never seemed to leave tracks that left the area ... only entered.
The templar mused that perhaps the elf was using foul magicks. Eventually, I think she figured out what was going on and took us back home.
The truth of the matter?
My noob ranger was tracking the templar's half-giant guard. I completely forgot about the guard and I was so inexperienced that I'd never been able to compare half-giant versus elf tracks. So sure enough, each "room" that we entered, there were the long-strided tracks!
I only realized the truth later. And hung my head in shame.
Quote from: Thunkkin on April 05, 2010, 08:45:57 AM
There were mount tracks leading into the area (obviously our beetles), but the long-strided tracks no doubt meant that we were just behind the elf! I led this poor templar in crazy zig-zags through the entire western desert. I could never tell which way the elf had gone, but I was always able to confirm that he HAD entered this area. It was mysterious, though. He never seemed to leave tracks that left the area ... only entered.
It's not just you who's made this mistake. ;)
At your seat, you say in sirihish, dryly:
"Yes, because the commoners -love- to show how patriotic they are through buying templar-shaped cookies."
I almost caused the Arm of the Dragon to have a bake sale with this comment. :'(
I blame all my life's troubles on Gimfalisette.
I once made a dramatic announcement that I was quitting Armageddon forever because it was interfering with other things.
Now I'm back and playing because the practice is really helping me fulfill on other things in my life.
Way to go, Armageddon.
once had the best bard character in Tuluk.
Also went AFK outside of Tuluk, two rooms away from the gate, so Delerak could kill me.
EDIT:
Not on purpose!!!! Also where is my super uber custom instrument! Lost in a crash, I say.
Double Edit:
I am drunk. Nothing more shameful than that (And by shameful I mean awesome until work occurs.)
OMG! I just remembered the biggest GDB shame ever. I once got home drunk when I was about 14 or so and made a thread on the GDB about underage drinking in which I typed drunkenly. I remembered I did it but was too ashamed to ever view the thread again. I think I even changed my GDB account name...Could be where this name came from. It all happened on my very first intro to armageddon. I wasn't quite ready for it and so left to come back a year or two later.
I wonder if anybody here knows the thread I'm talking about...I think it got a few pages.
I lost a character because I decided to combat RP with a tarantula instead of, you know, running. This happened a room away from the gates of Allanak. And the sad thing is, there weren't even any other PCs around to combat RP for!
Quote from: Reiloth on April 15, 2010, 06:03:55 AM
once had the best bard character in Tuluk.
Lies.
:)
The best bard... oh boy. Not you though!
(oh yeah, how harsh am I now that I'm old and jaded?)
One hour.
[insert scary color here] Spots.
Hopefully that is just vague enough to constitute no IC info.
I'm embarrassed.
Quote from: marko on April 20, 2010, 01:40:57 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on April 15, 2010, 06:03:55 AM
once had the best bard character in Tuluk.
Lies.
:)
The best bard... oh boy. Not you though!
(oh yeah, how harsh am I now that I'm old and jaded?)
holten was boring dude.
On Cockroaches:
Quote from: perfecto on April 28, 2010, 04:36:09 PM
Nah.. just the little dead ones you find when your hanging out in jail for months at a time..
My first character was a burglar who spent four days, IRL, in jail, for his first theft. I kept wishing up that they would animate a templar and get me out. By day three, I started trying to eat all the cockroaches, hoping to piss off the staff (I was a lot more spiteful of a player then), and perhaps kill my character by some sort of disease. I also contemplated wishing, "I'm eating cockroaches... this can't be healthy..." On day four, I finally got a PC templar to come, and in the end, his goons killed me. I feel like an idiot, looking back on it.
Years ago had an Elkrosian or whatever they're called...Made an alias that would emote energy crackling to life around me, surging into the air etc etc so that I could bust that out before a spell in hasty combat situations. Admittedly, I forgot about the alias only to mistype on a character in a completely inappropriate situation. Got me some VERY strange looks.
ooc You didn't see nothin'!
I only have one time when i felt bad playing on arm.
I was on like a second pc, back ages ago, maybe 03 or so. I was still pretty much a Newb to ARM but had been playing other RPI's for a while. I had a guard that was in one of the noble houses that has a great disdain for halfers. The newb i was, didnt even know that and hadnt even read the board to even try to find out more background on the house. Anyway, he starts befriending this half-elf and time and again he hears remarks from others about how he shouldnt. The next thing i know my pc is ordered to bring other said pc back to the compound. Knowing full well what was about to happen, i lie to this other pc and bring t hem back to the compound where i am forced to kill them. I think i retired that pc and quit for like 4 years after that.
Thinking back on it, i dont know why that bothered me so much, considering how easy it is to die here. After reading some of these i dont feel so bad anymore :)
Quote from: Lythaniel on June 08, 2010, 05:49:48 PM
I only have one time when i felt bad playing on arm.
I was on like a second pc, back ages ago, maybe 03 or so. I was still pretty much a Newb to ARM but had been playing other RPI's for a while. I had a guard that was in one of the noble houses that has a great disdain for halfers. The newb i was, didnt even know that and hadnt even read the board to even try to find out more background on the house. Anyway, he starts befriending this half-elf and time and again he hears remarks from others about how he shouldnt. The next thing i know my pc is ordered to bring other said pc back to the compound. Knowing full well what was about to happen, i lie to this other pc and bring t hem back to the compound where i am forced to kill them. I think i retired that pc and quit for like 4 years after that.
Thinking back on it, i dont know why that bothered me so much, considering how easy it is to die here. After reading some of these i dont feel so bad anymore :)
I was telling someone from another rpi about that the other day. I didn't remember that they killed her. I thought they just brutalized her.
Quote from: Barzalene on June 08, 2010, 11:05:05 PM
Quote from: Lythaniel on June 08, 2010, 05:49:48 PM
I only have one time when i felt bad playing on arm.
I was on like a second pc, back ages ago, maybe 03 or so. I was still pretty much a Newb to ARM but had been playing other RPI's for a while. I had a guard that was in one of the noble houses that has a great disdain for halfers. The newb i was, didnt even know that and hadnt even read the board to even try to find out more background on the house. Anyway, he starts befriending this half-elf and time and again he hears remarks from others about how he shouldnt. The next thing i know my pc is ordered to bring other said pc back to the compound. Knowing full well what was about to happen, i lie to this other pc and bring t hem back to the compound where i am forced to kill them. I think i retired that pc and quit for like 4 years after that.
Thinking back on it, i dont know why that bothered me so much, considering how easy it is to die here. After reading some of these i dont feel so bad anymore :)
I was telling someone from another rpi about that the other day. I didn't remember that they killed her. I thought they just brutalized her.
I know within the same house, there have been multiple times it's happened. When i played that pc years ago, he had to deliver the killing blow or be killed, if i recall correctly. It has been years, i think i quit shortly after that and only recently returned a few months ago.
charge siltflyer
:-\
charge carru
???
Here, have a pinch of salt. Always best to stick to the 1 year post-death-post rule (which I'm sure you're aware of). It's just too easy to glean quite a lot of important information for something as seemingly innocent as your post, MeTekillot. I don't really want to draw attention to it but I guess it's already out there: you said still and you said since. That's some serious information if you think about it. No worries though, Ginka's still running (probably the point where someone tells me the game switched server).
Back on the rails! I once back stabbed someone in the dark whilst holding a torch. I'm sorry, I was new!!! :P
I moderated some posts here. Don't discuss things that happened to your character if it is not past the 1 year mark (if it is past that mark and your character is still alive, do not discuss that either). Thanks!
Picture a Sun Runner, out for a hunt. Sun Runner spots a skeet, and goes to kill it. Another skeet that was a room away runs in and jumps on the Sun Runner for trying to kill its buddy. The two skeet proceed to get the better of the Sun Runner, who takes off running with both skeet in hot persuit. Sun Runner is hopped up on adrenaline and not paying 100% attention to where she was going, and falls into a sinkhole. The only thing that kept her from being killed on impact was that she managed to grab hold of the side and keep herself from falling. As if that wasn't enough, the Sun Runner starts getting thirsty while catching her breath so that she can run home, and all she has with her is water. She never, ever told anyone about that horrible day.
That's cool rp, IC shame.
I had a Sun Runner who drank water like a fish.
Quote from: FantasyWriter on June 25, 2010, 10:58:19 AM
so long as "I like my women like I like my coffee" lines meant instant storage, I wouldn't mind.
Also, what we do have needs a better 'sip' descriptor, lol.
"That tastes like ordinary coffee."
BUT COFFEE ISN'T ORDINARY!
One time my first gemmer was playing around with a flashy, magickal doodad and I assessed it. When it returned "you notice nothing unusual about [a very unusual thing.]" I bugged it as a real knee-slapper of a joke (that's what iso play does to me, folks). Almost -immediately-, Nyr or Morgenes or someone sent me an email explaining the code situation in all seriousness. I felt like a total douchebag for wasting their time. :-[
With my first ever magicker I was exstatic about learning some new spells, so figured I'd work out how to RP it, he got tanked by a bahamet in the min or so I was looking over the GDB. ;D
Quote from: Thunderboots on July 24, 2010, 05:05:18 PM
some IC info that will probably be edited soon
Don't maximize windows. Always have at least one or two inches of the left side of your client peeking out at you, and you can at least see when something is happening and can easily click back over.
*sigh*, never making that mistake again. Oh well, it kind of funny ;D
Every time I have tried playing a whirran, I died before he could XXX or become XXXXXXXXXX.
:(
i once typed kick person in a bar fight
I had a hard core assassin pc... that died to a one legged npc...was killed by a crutch. A CRUTCH!
Quote from: Fredd on July 26, 2010, 10:40:59 PM
I had a hard core assassin pc... that died to a one legged npc...was killed by a crutch. A CRUTCH!
That fellow has quite the body count... I assure you.
The Mantis Head itself jumped out and bit me in the neck for grievous damage before I could say WTFSRSLY.
I fell in a chasm, got attacked by a carru, climbed out of the chasm, and then fell in again ):
This was after talking two dives off of the shield wall.
One of my best pcs ever got carrued when I stopped on the North Road to Bio.
I got carrued when I decided to travel to Tuluk from Luirs to seek my fortune there. On foot. It was pretty cool, actually, in hindsight.
The closest I've come to being carru'd was hunting with a PC while totally plastered (bad idea), failing charge (worse idea) and getting spam bashed three rooms away from said mount after said failing while being drunk (ICly, only). Didn't die, though, and I killed that carru dead. Is that shame or a brag?
Definitely a brag.
*Fist shake* Carruuus!
Wow, that's pretty awesome, Spice.
Quote from: ILoveDawley on July 29, 2010, 06:42:20 PM
*Fist shake* Carruuus!
Wow, that's pretty awesome, Spice.
It was, I totally got what I deserved. To this day, I love nothing more than a good carru steak ;).
Very shortly after my most-beloved-ever character was randomly and brutally slain, I created:
Amos
Short Desc: the tall, muscular man
Description:
Suk-Krath's rays have dealt harshly with this sunbaked human male; the natural bronzy color of his skin can be seen only on those bits of him that see the least of their fury. Elsewhere, he is baked to a deep, occasionally peeling, mahogany. Black eyes and a shock of straight, coffee-hued hair complete his dark palette, atop a lean, ropey frame that bears many scars.
And I headed up to Allanak to hack obsidian, because that's the only way I know how to make money in Armageddon MUD. The following events are absolutely true and unembellished.
The burning red sun rises high into the burning red sky, burning everything red.
Rolling Dunes [NSEWU]
Burning red sand stretches into the burning red horizon as far as your burning red
eyes can see. The bones and tears of a thousand puny grebbers lie scattered about,
burning to red chalk beneath Suk-Krath's fury.
A large deposit of obsidian rears its ugly head from beneath the shifting sands.
A large chunk of obsidian lies here.
A small chunk of obsidian lies here.
> use hacker deposit
You swing at a large obsidian deposit and miss.
The tall, dark figure in a tall, dark sandcloth stormcloak has arrived from the east, riding a tall, dark war beetle.
> use hacker deposit
You swing at a large obsidian deposit and miss.
> use hacker deposit
A large obsidian deposit meets your swing and knocks YOU down.
The tall, dark figure in a tall, dark sandcloth stormcloak says, out of character
"Ahahaaaa where's malik?"
You say, sitting sprawled in the sand, in sirihish,
"Ain't seen no Maliks today."
My Malik got set on fire in the Gaj, rescued a Byn Sarge, then got carrued a week later.
I've never been unintentionally carrued.
My Malik and Amos stories were both seriously underwhelming. :(
Don't mean to sound like a noob, but what does carrued mean? Killed by a carru, or some shockingly debased, yet comedic and painful death to a beloved pc?
I've been tarantula'd with my first PC, but otherwise never died to any wilderness critter.
I play sissy city sitter PCs. :-[ I know exactly if I played a true outdoorsy type, I'd die to something random and stupid at under 5 days played.
Quote from: Scarecrow on July 31, 2010, 05:05:45 AM
Killed by a carru, or some shockingly debased, yet comedic and painful death to a beloved pc?
Both at the same time. Carruzilla roams the lands looking for loved-lived PCs to charge still. You have been warned.
With a shadow coming over you, the enormous, golden-furred carru arrives from the west.
the enormous, golden-furred carru says, in an LoLcat accent, in sirihish:
"hai, i keel u ready onot hear i"
the enormous, golden-furred carru's gore does an >UNCODED< amount of damage to your face!
They're not that bad, much worse things about, they just move around alot and theres alot of them. I wouldn't have thought they're any danger to an experienced character- unless your drunk or unbelievabley encumbered.
Quote from: Thunderboots on July 31, 2010, 12:11:58 PM
They're not that bad, much worse things about, they just move around alot and theres alot of them. I wouldn't have thought they're any danger to an experienced character- unless your drunk or unbelievabley encumbered.
You've obviously never encountered the random triple-charge KO.
What do you mean? I meant one of them not three, if you're fighting three then your fucked, unless your character really is experienced.
- or your a dwarf warrior
Died with my favorite ever character because I went kryl hunting, in a rage for IG reasons, killed four, snapped my greatsword, killed the last one with my skinning knife, all of which is probably brag, but then realised I'd been poisoned by skelebain, attacked my inix (with my skinning knife), and then chose not to flee because i wanted to see if I could win ;D , it was close, but I didn't.
Thunderboots, he's not talking about 3 carru. He's talking about 1 carru that charges, knocks you around, does it again almost immediately and then does it a third time almost immediately too. Your character could easily be so unconscious he'll never wake up after that, especially if he goes over the side of a cliff.
Yeah. I thought he might have meant that after I'd posted. It must suck being owned by that.
Quote from: spawnloser on July 31, 2010, 12:27:43 PM
Thunderboots, he's not talking about 3 carru. He's talking about 1 carru that charges, knocks you around, does it again almost immediately and then does it a third time almost immediately too. Your character could easily be so unconscious he'll never wake up after that, especially if he goes over the side of a cliff.
I suddenly feel alot less like Carru hunting.....
lol
I've only ever faced one Carru, and my character was pretty much the wind with a spear when mounted. Never got charged :-\
Those carru sound scary. Thank you for the warning. We should make more carru hide things, to teach them a lesson and avenge our dead beloved characters.
Carru are like moose on PCP. They're no super-beings, but you'd better be concerned and alert when they're nearby. That's all.
Quote from: spicemustflow on July 29, 2010, 07:54:23 AM
I got carrued when I decided to travel to Tuluk from Luirs to seek my fortune there. On foot. It was pretty cool, actually, in hindsight.
My first pc was Carrued. I didn't know what it was. So i fought it, and almost won.
LOL.
Maybe it wasn't me and I'm taking someone else's credit, or blame, but I think I invented a verb!
Quote from: Scarecrow on July 31, 2010, 07:02:48 PM
Those carru sound scary. Thank you for the warning. We should make more carru hide things, to teach them a lesson and avenge our dead beloved characters.
I like you.
Quote from: Barzalene on August 01, 2010, 11:07:41 AM
Quote from: Scarecrow on July 31, 2010, 07:02:48 PM
Those carru sound scary. Thank you for the warning. We should make more carru hide things, to teach them a lesson and avenge our dead beloved characters.
I like you.
Hmmm... Carru hide thong...
my shame: I have an Armadiction.
I Died to a Ox after getting away from it............ I went back for my mount (Smacks for head) Stupid I know........
I feel guilty that I don't use bios. But I just can't get myself to do it on top of all the other RL and game related writing I'm supposed to do. I've been meaning to write a new novel, as well... but didn't, since I started playing Arm again. Too much writing. :-[
Thank you Barzalene. Somewhere there is a big, huge water tank, full of tears cried for lost characters who we really didn't want to die, but did, and usually stupidly. More tears thinking about all the great plans/friends/plots that are gone now, never to be accomplished...
Wow, that was depressing. Okay, think happy thoughts.
(thinks of Flubber dancing to a stupid song)
Quote from: Scarecrow on August 03, 2010, 05:02:04 AM
Thank you Barzalene. Somewhere there is a big, huge water tank, full of tears cried for lost characters who we really didn't want to die, but did, and usually stupidly. More tears thinking about all the great plans/friends/plots that are gone now, never to be accomplished...
Wow, that was depressing. Okay, think happy thoughts.
(thinks of Flubber dancing to a stupid song)
*Seal of approval.*
I've had four dreams about armageddon this week, all of them involving my character dying, and an overwhelming sense of panic with each one of them.
Quote from: MeTekillot on August 03, 2010, 01:41:24 PM
I've had four dreams about armageddon this week, all of them involving my character dying, and an overwhelming sense of panic with each one of them.
Haha, same. Strangely enough.
I'm guessing both of you plan on going to that same RPT. The one that's scheduled up in august. Well ... there are worse ways to die.
Quote from: MeTekillot on August 03, 2010, 01:41:24 PM
I've had four dreams about armageddon this week, all of them involving my character dying, and an overwhelming sense of panic with each one of them.
I think more than half of my (memorable) Armageddon dreams involved my character dying. It really sucked each time, but was quite a sense of relief upon awakening.
QuotePlease don't post details of or allusions to recent IC events. Thank you. - Talia
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So the next shame on my list... I got attached to playing my character?
Quote from: Lancer on August 03, 2010, 02:05:50 PM
So the next shame on my list... I got attached to playing my character?
This happens to us all. Welcome to Crackageddon! ;)
Best cure for being attached to a character is to play another totally awesome character. Eventually, it doesn't hit you quite so hard, though the pull of the game remains strong.
Quote from: Talia on August 03, 2010, 02:29:39 PM
Quote from: Lancer on August 03, 2010, 02:05:50 PM
So the next shame on my list... I got attached to playing my character?
This happens to us all. Welcome to Crackageddon! ;)
Best cure for being attached to a character is to play another totally awesome character. Eventually, it doesn't hit you quite so hard, though the pull of the game remains strong.
I still get sad when my awesome pc dies. Best cure is to think up a new awesome pc.
When I get really depressed, I like a nice human tribal. Al'seik FTW.
I've only had four PC's, so I don't know how it feels to lose a long-lived character. Yet. It will happen eventually, though.
One more for the Karma Carru:
RL: Evening so on my second glass of wine (love you Italy)
Game: My 13 day warrior sees a carru far north..phone-a-friend using the way-phone "haha the carru is mine"...Someone else dials in.. not paying attention and guess who shows up, Mr. Carru (notice my newfound respect). Bam knocks my pc out and takes his time killing him while I'm sitting behind my keyboard thinking "huh, why is my stun so low".
Thank goodness for instant replay..er logs.
Quote from: Lancer on August 03, 2010, 02:05:50 PM
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So the next shame on my list... I got attached to playing my character?
I cried my eyes out when my second character died. I haven't reacted quite that badly since. She was quietly spice-addicted and woke up (logged in) rolled over on her bedroll to take her morning snort and *beep* -Mantishead. I'd played her for almost three years. Was a serious bummer.
Today was unbelieveably hot in my office. After all work was done, I opened up my MUD client at the garden and started smoke+coffee+MUDding routine.
And while I was totally immersed, I felt a stinging pain in my pants just above the knee and the next moment I was pantless in the middle of the campus - my office is in the campus of the local uni - stomping on a bug.
I don't know how it entered my pants. I don't know what it was, either but I believe it has a relation to scrabs. Its carapace was hard and crunchy.
Thankfully it's summertime and there was noone but a couple other programmers from a neighbouring office. I'm sure they'll laugh at me for a few years about the 'pantless' part.
Beat this shame if you can.
Quote from: Akaramu on August 03, 2010, 04:48:41 AM
I feel guilty that I don't use bios. But I just can't get myself to do it on top of all the other RL and game related writing I'm supposed to do. I've been meaning to write a new novel, as well... but didn't, since I started playing Arm again. Too much writing. :-[
I don't really use them either.
Quote from: RedKingsBreaker on August 04, 2010, 08:45:33 AM
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So the next shame on my list... I got attached to playing my character?
I cried my eyes out when my second character died. I haven't reacted quite that badly since. She was quietly spice-addicted and woke up (logged in) rolled over on her bedroll to take her morning snort and *beep* -Mantishead. I'd played her for almost three years. Was a serious bummer.
What killed her?
1. I struggle getting past the Hack 'n Slash mud mindset. Have since I came here. Too many times I do things not for any real rp reason, but for a hope/chance at bumping a skill.
2. I've checked for corpses of my previous character lost before, a few times.
3. I suck roleplaying without any other PCs around to interact with, treating it as if I'm just there to max skills. Walk out of Red Storm, type in sneak to improve my desert sneak, walk until I find a deposit, spam 'use sifter deposit' until it's gone, sneak back to the tavern, rest on a cot for faster regen, no emotes whatsoever, wash, rinse, repeat once I've regenned.
Worst part is, I'm conceited/arrogant/naive?/dumb? enough to think that I'm a decent roleplayer.
Quote from: Fredd on August 04, 2010, 01:37:54 PM
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I made no mention of any specific events, characters, groups, cities, affiliations, or deaths in my admin-edited post, please forgive me for such behavior.
So the next shame on my list... I got attached to playing my character?
I cried my eyes out when my second character died. I haven't reacted quite that badly since. She was quietly spice-addicted and woke up (logged in) rolled over on her bedroll to take her morning snort and *beep* -Mantishead. I'd played her for almost three years. Was a serious bummer.
What killed her?
That last snort of spice. ;) I don't think I was even on for two minutes, but she'd obvious accumulated quite a bit in her system. I don't know if spice is like the drunk code now, where your drunk level decreases when you're offline, but I can tell you that back then, neither did. *chuckle*
Quote from: RedKingsBreaker on August 04, 2010, 01:43:53 PM
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QuotePlease don't post details of or allusions to recent IC events. Thank you. - Talia
I made no mention of any specific events, characters, groups, cities, affiliations, or deaths in my admin-edited post, please forgive me for such behavior.
So the next shame on my list... I got attached to playing my character?
I cried my eyes out when my second character died. I haven't reacted quite that badly since. She was quietly spice-addicted and woke up (logged in) rolled over on her bedroll to take her morning snort and *beep* -Mantishead. I'd played her for almost three years. Was a serious bummer.
What killed her?
That last snort of spice. ;) I don't think I was even on for two minutes, but she'd obvious accumulated quite a bit in her system. I don't know if spice is like the drunk code now, where your drunk level decreases when you're offline, but I can tell you that back then, neither did. *chuckle*
HAHA Wow. This is the first OD I heard of. You get a thumbs up from me. You're awesome.
Quote from: Fredd on August 04, 2010, 01:45:18 PM
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QuotePlease don't post details of or allusions to recent IC events. Thank you. - Talia
I made no mention of any specific events, characters, groups, cities, affiliations, or deaths in my admin-edited post, please forgive me for such behavior.
So the next shame on my list... I got attached to playing my character?
I cried my eyes out when my second character died. I haven't reacted quite that badly since. She was quietly spice-addicted and woke up (logged in) rolled over on her bedroll to take her morning snort and *beep* -Mantishead. I'd played her for almost three years. Was a serious bummer.
What killed her?
That last snort of spice. ;) I don't think I was even on for two minutes, but she'd obvious accumulated quite a bit in her system. I don't know if spice is like the drunk code now, where your drunk level decreases when you're offline, but I can tell you that back then, neither did. *chuckle*
HAHA Wow. This is the first OD I heard of. You get a thumbs up from me. You're awesome.
Well thank you. I was quite upset at the time, but decided it was a respectable death for her. She'd been snorting that shit for IG years and years.
I've never had a magicker last more than an hour because I try to experiment with them too much.
:(
Quote from: MeTekillot on August 06, 2010, 08:20:58 PM
Quote from: Qzzrbl on August 06, 2010, 08:18:36 PM
I've never had a magicker
:(
At one point I was playing so many magickers, it was hard for me to remember if I'd ever really played a mundane...
I've played a long-lived magicker who never cast a spell....
...until five minutes before he died.
It's been a little over a year now, so I think it's safe to release this...
I played your mom.
Quote from: MeTekillot on August 06, 2010, 08:20:58 PM
Quote from: Qzzrbl on August 06, 2010, 08:18:36 PM
I've never had a magicker
:(
Me either, but I really enjoy mundanes too, and there are so many mundanes guilds to try!
My first special app was a carpet that was imbued with the spirit of a Whiran.
you can guess how that went
Like this?
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1243/978335752_02c3cc851f.jpg)
Quote from: Erythil on August 09, 2010, 01:19:54 AM
All my characters wind up horribly forgetful insensitive twits because I can't keep all the same-ish descs straight.
One of my characters always, for reasons that seemed good to him, took the trouble to speak politely to an extraordinarily powerful PC. "Very powerful" means "red-robed templar." "Extraordinarily powerful" means "can probably kill everyone in the game at once if they'll just line up."
Then she updated her sdesc... :-[
My first special app was a halfling slave in the Byn. It somehow sounded like a great idea. :-[
Quote from: Akaramu on August 09, 2010, 10:05:33 AM
My first special app was a halfling slave in the Byn. It somehow sounded like a great idea. :-[
I wish to know more of this...
I approve of that app. I think the fact that you apped that concept belongs in the bragging thread.
"Alright, time for patrol, runners. Amos, you get to hold Chompy's leash this time."
Quote from: Bogre on August 10, 2010, 12:19:03 PM
"Alright, time for patrol, runners. Amos, you get to hold Chompy's leash this time."
That would be awesome...
every time I see a red scorpion dwarf, I want to make a Red Dwarf joke. But I expect I would be murdered immediatly by the Blue Flame of the immortals, and loose all my karma.
Quote from: Fredd on August 12, 2010, 12:49:31 PM
every time I see a red scorpion dwarf, I want to make a Red Dwarf joke. But I expect I would be murdered immediatly by the Blue Flame of the immortals, and loose all my karma.
I knew a dwarf IG who was named after the dwarf planet Ceres.
Quote from: MeTekillot on August 12, 2010, 05:43:00 PM
Quote from: Fredd on August 12, 2010, 12:49:31 PM
every time I see a red scorpion dwarf, I want to make a Red Dwarf joke. But I expect I would be murdered immediatly by the Blue Flame of the immortals, and loose all my karma.
I knew a dwarf IG who was named after the dwarf planet Ceres.
She was the first female dwarf I ever saw. Only one too, until just recently.
You've missed out on a few, then.
Okay, so this is when I was brand-spanking new and didn't know any better, but...
I was playing a northerner during the occupation of Tuluk, and my character thought it would be a good idea to try and tame a gortok. So, he parades off into the wild, subdues one, and drags it past the gates.
It escaped right in front of the Sun King's Sanctuary. :-[
It's almost been 2 years, so...
My secret shame: mudsexing on the arch over the Byn compound gate.
Quote from: deviant storm on August 12, 2010, 07:30:10 PM
It's almost been 2 years, so...
My secret shame: mudsexing on the arch over the Byn compound gate.
You people really need to learn how to differentiate between a shame and a brag.
Quote from: Aaron Goulet on August 12, 2010, 07:45:44 PM
Quote from: deviant storm on August 12, 2010, 07:30:10 PM
It's almost been 2 years, so...
My secret shame: mudsexing on the arch over the Byn compound gate.
You people really need to learn how to differentiate between a shame and a brag.
Actually I think that qualifies for a cross-post. :o
I killed someone with a bandage fail. Doh! >:(
Quote from: Kiara on August 13, 2010, 05:41:04 AMI killed someone with a bandage fail. Doh! >:(
Again, something that should be a brag! ;D
Quote from: deviant storm on August 12, 2010, 07:30:10 PM
It's almost been 2 years, so...
My secret shame: mudsexing on the arch over the Byn compound gate.
Logs, or it didnt happen.
I've lost no less than ten PCs to "going back to get my mount."
Quote from: FantasyWriter on August 15, 2010, 11:23:32 PM
I've lost no less than ten PCs to "going back to get my mount."
M'boy, the ditching of one or multiple mounts is an art form and a key ingredient to my characters' longevity. *tweaks mustache and strolls away*
My shame for the day is the fact that I seem to bring up Arm in every other conversation I have with my significant other. Or does that belong in the "You Know You're Addicted..." thread?
Sometimes the line between shame and brag is so thin.
I had a Tuluki assassin whose confidence far exceeded her actual abilities. She got a job as an aide for a noble, who assigned her to kill some southron who didn't know his place. The target was going to be in the city and had a meeting with my character, ostensibly to for some business arrangement with the noble.
So, she and one of her closer allies plotted the whole thing out, talking through various scenarios and methods. They rented a vacant apartment, to which they would lure the intended victim. They even discussed how to deal with the resulting mess afterward. The funny part to me, in retrospect, is that there was so much discussion about how it would happen, and hardly an inkling of doubt that it would all work out.
So anyway, the meeting happens, in a public place. My character's accomplice is waiting back in the apartment. My character eventually lures the would-be victim back there, whereupon (as expected) the filthy southron starts to escalate the flirtation. Everything is working according to plan, and my character and her accomplice (on the other side of a door) are keeping each other updated psionically. Things started to veer off track when my character couldn't really separate the victim from his weapons & armor, but that wasn't going to deter her.
Finally the moment came to strike, and the accomplice rushes in. Things go really badly from there, as it quickly becomes apparent that we're way overmatched. My character manages to poison the intended victim, at least, before she dies.
So I see the mantis head, and I have no idea who got out of that apartment alive. The accomplice? The southron? Did everyone die?
I only was into my next character for an hour or two when I heard the answer, all the way across the world in Allanak. I heard the story, with some embellishments, in two different bars within days. Apparently the guy got away, after killing both the wannabe assassins.
I have to say this is probably my favorite death of all of them, because it was such a glorious failure.
I had a northern noble that was destroyed by a single accusation of my cousin's aide.
I was sitting in the sanctuary, when the aide came in. He threw the head of another nobles's aide on my lap, and yelled, "I did what you asked,". Afterwards, his word was apparently taken over mine. He was killed and I was given a life sentence to the noble estate. :(
Furthermore, the aide that did me in, wasn't even a registered or recongnized bard, and wasn't even MY aide.
After that happening, I stopped playing in Tuluk. For a year or so, and learnt the beauty of Allanak.
Today, I understand there was most likely more going on behind the curtain... but on the surface level, and still to this day of what I KNOW, a commoner took down a noble!
You let go of the wall...bad move.
You plummet to the ground below...
Simply, this. And not realizing you were still clinging to a wall to begin with :-[
Quote from: Akaramu on August 18, 2010, 04:14:11 PM
You let go of the wall...bad move.
You plummet to the ground below...
Simply, this. And not realizing you were still clinging to a wall to begin with :-[
Try doing that 6-7 times in a row, in the same room.
Quote from: Akaramu on August 18, 2010, 04:14:11 PM
You let go of the wall...bad move.
You plummet to the ground below...
Simply, this. And not realizing you were still clinging to a wall to begin with :-[
Been there. Done that. A few times. It's one of the ultimate facepalm moments.
>d
You try and climb but slip!
>emote braces for impact.
You fall.
You fall.
You fall.
the small, blue-eyed boy braces for impact.
You fall.
>emote brushes off his cloak.
the small, blue-eyed boy brushes off his cloak.
>d
You arrive from above.
Aka - abusing a 5 room fall to not taking fall damage, roleplaying as I braced for impact.
I assassinated someone.
In the process, I emoted a whisper to them, explaining why I was killing them.
Then I killed them.
Oops. I bypassed the language code. Bad mansa.
Quote from: mansa on August 26, 2010, 04:42:49 PM
I assassinated someone.
In the process, I emoted a whisper to them, explaining why I was killing them.
Then I killed them.
Oops. I bypassed the language code. Bad mansa.
I did this too, whispering with my mortally wounded first character who got wtfpwned by 'rinthi elves.
Quote from: mansa on August 26, 2010, 04:42:49 PM
I assassinated someone.
In the process, I emoted a whisper to them, explaining why I was killing them.
Then I killed them.
Oops. I bypassed the language code. Bad mansa.
I do this to pcs and npcs alike. I feel no shame.
Really? So it's acceptable then? The victim can't hear your monologue when in negative health?
Oh, you'll get an account note if you're caught, I'm sure. Bad habit.
Quote from: jstorrie on August 28, 2010, 03:36:52 AM
Oh, you'll get an account note if you're caught, I'm sure. Bad habit.
Jstorrie's shame: teacher's pet.
Sorceror karma, here I come!
Quote from: jstorrie on August 28, 2010, 03:42:58 AM
Sorceror karma, here I come!
In your dreams loser.
jstorrie's shame: never really killing anyone with an assassin.
I killed myself with an assassin. Yes, I'm -that- good at them. BOOM! BEEP!
...FUCK...
Quote from: Reiloth on August 30, 2010, 01:48:02 AM
jstorrie's shame: never really killing anyone with an assassin.
I killed that elf. Or maybe you did. Look, I was present when the elf died. I mean, he was in the same argosy as us, somewhere.
Quote from: jstorrie on August 31, 2010, 01:18:25 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on August 30, 2010, 01:48:02 AM
jstorrie's shame: never really killing anyone with an assassin.
I killed that elf. Or maybe you did. Look, I was present when the elf died. I mean, he was in the same argosy as us, somewhere.
That was such a three stooges assassination.
Quote from: Reiloth on August 31, 2010, 01:37:42 AM
Quote from: jstorrie on August 31, 2010, 01:18:25 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on August 30, 2010, 01:48:02 AM
jstorrie's shame: never really killing anyone with an assassin.
I killed that elf. Or maybe you did. Look, I was present when the elf died. I mean, he was in the same argosy as us, somewhere.
That was such a three stooges assassination.
My shame: I was that elf, if I think I know what you two are talking about.
A while back I lost one of my earliest PCs after abandoning my exhausted mount. The PC died, the mount did not (I think).
Mounts never die. When their owners do, they take to the wastes, wandering alone in search of some greater meaning.
Quote from: Wolfsong on August 31, 2010, 07:08:25 PM
Mounts never die. When their owners do, they take to the wastes, wandering alone in search of some greater meaning.
Can I sig that?
QuoteI'd like for some aggressive wildlife (depending on size, buffness, and personal habits) to be more interested in my mount than in me.
My third character died when I logged into a tembo. i unhitched my kank because I thought the tembo would turn on it first, if I ran.
(I made my next character a bynner so i could learn how these things worked.)
Quote from: solera on September 01, 2010, 02:08:35 AM
(I made my next character a bynner so i could learn how these things worked.)
Smart.
*thumbs up*
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on August 31, 2010, 02:20:09 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on August 31, 2010, 01:37:42 AM
Quote from: jstorrie on August 31, 2010, 01:18:25 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on August 30, 2010, 01:48:02 AM
jstorrie's shame: never really killing anyone with an assassin.
I killed that elf. Or maybe you did. Look, I was present when the elf died. I mean, he was in the same argosy as us, somewhere.
That was such a three stooges assassination.
My shame: I was that elf, if I think I know what you two are talking about.
we totally buttraped your corpse. (shame)
EDIT: Actually wait, I was playing a female at the time. I did however deliver that elf's head and got a promotion. (brag).
X2 EDIT: Wait, jstorrie, how did he die? Wasn't it like exhaustingly slow death from terradin, and him running around puking and screaming how he was poisoned and ack omg blegh dead?
Quote from: Reiloth on September 01, 2010, 05:52:44 AM
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on August 31, 2010, 02:20:09 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on August 31, 2010, 01:37:42 AM
Quote from: jstorrie on August 31, 2010, 01:18:25 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on August 30, 2010, 01:48:02 AM
jstorrie's shame: never really killing anyone with an assassin.
I killed that elf. Or maybe you did. Look, I was present when the elf died. I mean, he was in the same argosy as us, somewhere.
That was such a three stooges assassination.
My shame: I was that elf, if I think I know what you two are talking about.
we totally buttraped your corpse. (shame)
EDIT: Actually wait, I was playing a female at the time. I did however deliver that elf's head and got a promotion. (brag).
X2 EDIT: Wait, jstorrie, how did he die? Wasn't it like exhaustingly slow death from terradin, and him running around puking and screaming how he was poisoned and ack omg blegh dead?
LOL! That was it. It was a hilarious (and relatively unexpected) death. I had some time to just wander around - Puking. Not so much screaming. More like, "I won't give those dirty roundears the pleasure of killing me themselves!" so... Yeah. Imagine just hanging around when someone pukes then sneaks away :P
Shame: I had entirely too much fun dying.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on September 01, 2010, 01:09:11 PM
Quote from: Reiloth on September 01, 2010, 05:52:44 AM
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on August 31, 2010, 02:20:09 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on August 31, 2010, 01:37:42 AM
Quote from: jstorrie on August 31, 2010, 01:18:25 AM
Quote from: Reiloth on August 30, 2010, 01:48:02 AM
jstorrie's shame: never really killing anyone with an assassin.
I killed that elf. Or maybe you did. Look, I was present when the elf died. I mean, he was in the same argosy as us, somewhere.
That was such a three stooges assassination.
My shame: I was that elf, if I think I know what you two are talking about.
we totally buttraped your corpse. (shame)
EDIT: Actually wait, I was playing a female at the time. I did however deliver that elf's head and got a promotion. (brag).
X2 EDIT: Wait, jstorrie, how did he die? Wasn't it like exhaustingly slow death from terradin, and him running around puking and screaming how he was poisoned and ack omg blegh dead?
LOL! That was it. It was a hilarious (and relatively unexpected) death. I had some time to just wander around - Puking. Not so much screaming. More like, "I won't give those dirty roundears the pleasure of killing me themselves!" so... Yeah. Imagine just hanging around when someone pukes then sneaks away :P
Shame: I had entirely too much fun dying.
Someone pukes on the ground.
I've stored thirteen characters. Twice, I've stored three in a row. Once I even stored a special app.
Quote from: FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit on September 02, 2010, 03:26:12 AM
I've stored thirteen characters. Twice, I've stored three in a row. Once I even stored a special app.
Yeah, and then you stored your GDB account.
Stored a couple elfies instead of finding a glorious (or inglorious) death for them.
Sha.
I've stored two characters.
One was a gladiator mantis app'd just after what ended up being the last Gladiator games that were going to be held (semi) regularly. I think it was like three years before I got him stored.
The other was a moderately skilled, special app'd sorcerer.
Stored more characters than I can count, including sponsored roles, most of them (and some in particular) to my later regret. I've done my best to break the habit and stick through tougher times.
I had a noble die of a spice overdose.
I had a long-lived warrior in the most amazing of situations involving Vedelarin, Pearl, etc., who I recently read about in a piece of game history (source not revealed) from 2002, who died of blood-burning poison because he was too full to swallow the tablet.
I've stored 2(!!!!) Templars.
I stupid suicided a well-branched sorc in a fit of total boredom even though he was in the middle of cool plots.
In fact, I am the ultimate squanderer of awesome situations. I beat all of you, I guarantee it.
... but not this time! This time will not be squandered!
One of my characters who was a hardcore Allanaki loyalist is one of the main reasons Tuluk won their freedom from Allanak.
I was sent north to infiltrate the rebellion, but at the time there was no PC rebellion, so with the help of the Blackmoon, I started one. And the rest is more or less history. Whoops.
Quote from: Ender on September 09, 2010, 11:39:41 AM
One of my characters who was a hardcore Allanaki loyalist is one of the main reasons Tuluk won their freedom from Allanak.
I was sent north to infiltrate the rebellion, but at the time there was no PC rebellion, so with the help of the Blackmoon, I started one. And the rest is more or less history. Whoops.
That's pretty damn funny. And I'm not sure it's a shame either.
That's definitely a brag.
Man, I loved playing in the north back then. I never played a rebel, but I got invited into one of their sekret forts.
Nothing generates conflict RP better than civil war / rebellion.
I've recently considered apping a character with a mullet in his sdesc, entirely for the troll factor.
Quote from: HavokBlue on September 09, 2010, 05:29:26 PM
I've recently considered apping a character with a mullet in his sdesc, entirely for the troll factor.
Bringing a mullet into Armageddon? You sicko. :)
Quote from: Scarecrow on September 09, 2010, 06:43:55 PM
Quote from: HavokBlue on September 09, 2010, 05:29:26 PM
I've recently considered apping a character with a mullet in his sdesc, entirely for the troll factor.
Bringing a mullet into Armageddon? You sicko. :)
Mullets should never be brought into anything.
Ever.
Youtube.
Kenny Powers.
Then tell me mullets don't belong somewhere.
Please do not post details of things happening within the past real-life year.
Quote from: Dan on September 10, 2010, 10:46:29 AM
Youtube.
Kenny Powers.
Then tell me mullets don't belong somewhere.
The mullets don't belong
anywhere
Long ago, when you could see your saving throws, I had a half-giant who was rated as Immune to poisons. So, after an hour or so of roaming the market looking through gear, I promptly headed into the Rinth where I ran afoul of a skinny who showed me the pointy end of his knife.
Long story short, that HG took about an hour to die from the bloodburn.
My shame:
Pretty much the only reason I'm excited about 2.arm (whenever it eventually comes around thirty goddamn years from now) is that I'll be able to recycle cool descriptions and concepts that got cut short on 1.arm.
Quote from: Qzzrbl on September 12, 2010, 06:41:22 AM
My shame:
Pretty much the only reason I'm excited about 2.arm (whenever it eventually comes around thirty goddamn years from now) is that I'll be able to recycle cool descriptions and concepts that got cut short on 1.arm.
Agreed.
I had a character age 34 years IG.. but actually played only 2 days and 13 hours... and it wasn't a gladiator.
When I played Doshek, there was this one potential named "Ratpiss".
He was fucking awesome, from what little I saw of him.... Like.... He pissed himself while walking-- as if it were nothing.... He was dirty, nasty.... Overall, a picture of what more 'Rinthers should be.
My shame?
I accidentally got him killed.
And when I went to send him kudos, I didn't have his sdesc, so I couldn't send him kudos. :(
So if you played Ratpiss-- Just know that I thought he was awesome.
Quote from: Qzzrbl on September 20, 2010, 01:19:59 AM
When I played Doshek, there was this one potential named "Ratpiss".
He was fucking awesome, from what little I saw of him.... Like.... He pissed himself while walking-- as if it were nothing.... He was dirty, nasty.... Overall, a picture of what more 'Rinthers should be.
My shame?
I accidentally got him killed.
And when I went to send him kudos, I didn't have his sdesc, so I couldn't send him kudos. :(
So if you played Ratpiss-- Just know that I thought he was awesome.
Probably the biggest reason in favor of keeping those gamey lists of character sdescs is to facilitate kudos. Really sucks to send someone kudos, and the response is "Sorry, you don't have the exact sdesc and it looks like the name you gave was an alias."
Also a good reason not to purely use aliases with your characters. ;)
I cheered when a character my character owed a lot of sid to died. I then stole his boots.
Quote from: BleakOne on September 27, 2010, 06:01:35 AM
I cheered when a character my character owed a lot of sid to died. I then stole his boots.
Maybe if you'd paid them sooner, they could have afforded better protection. ;)
Quote from: BleakOne on September 27, 2010, 06:01:35 AM
I cheered when a character my character owed a lot of sid to died. I then stole his boots.
I don't really know why that's shame.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on September 27, 2010, 10:57:55 AM
Quote from: BleakOne on September 27, 2010, 06:01:35 AM
I cheered when a character my character owed a lot of sid to died. I then stole his boots.
I don't really know why that's shame.
Because they left a 'will' to have Bleak's character killed, in case of their untimely demise.
(Not really)
My first PC was taken on by someone that didn't usually take newbs on under their wings, I was so clueless enough to say that I was cold.
We were down south,
Outside of Allanak,
Walking in the sand,
During high sun.
I once quit playing Arm for about six years. I'm glad I'm back.
Quote from: Kronus on September 30, 2010, 01:23:19 PM
I once quit playing Arm for about six years. I'm glad I'm back.
We're glad you're back too, dawg.
Quote from: jriley on October 10, 2010, 12:23:01 PM
I'd like to point out to everyone that I have not once received a complaint from noobs in my years of interacting with them.
Ah, my first email from Sanvean... but I was, by Arm standards, quite a noob myself.
However, I've never actually PKed. (This, too, is a Shame.)
I play when I work. And once I was pounding on a training dummy (as you do) throwing emotes out and such, and then suddenly I needed to work. And then I forgot about Arm.
Sanvean emailed me telling me this is Bad, and I got a stain on my player notes. I swear I wasn't twinking! (Did I post this already? I forget)
Quote from: Barzalene on October 28, 2010, 07:15:43 PM
Quote from: Ender on October 28, 2010, 11:12:27 AM
I once invited Muk Utep to my birthday party. And he showed up... with a present.
I was there.
(That's my brag)
I didn't bring a gift!
So many old shames. I haven't touched the game in over a year so these probably aren't spoilers anymore, and I'm forum-lurking because all these memories make me feel a strong urge to try again.
My very first character was completely one-dimensional due to my own outright fear of the world and of looking like an idiot. The fear, I imagine, didn't change the results much.
My second character ended up bumping into some tribals (?) that cast a spell to make her understand their language (I was so freaked out I forgot I was supposed to be afraid of all this), and they were then kind enough to try and give her food. Except since I always prioritize wisdom first (I can't stand playing lackwit characters) I had an agility that meant I could carry 4 items max. And I had been walking around, exploring and picking plants. I totally locked up, unsure of how big of an idiot I'd look like if I just started dropping everything in my arms to pick up what they were giving me. The two PCs were very nice and patient, though, and helped relax some of my insecurity.
Third(?) character, the only one I've ever had get hired into a guild and the most long-lasted, had a eventful life both of shame and pride. She was hired on as a hunter (and she was a ranger class, so I figured I'd be fine) but because of aforementioned prioritizing... she couldn't kill a jozhal. Seriously. Her knives could not pierce their skin. She would eventually run out of stamina or get REALLY low on health and retreat, and (without my knowledge) the jozhal would run to the gates of her city and get killed by guards. I got chided for doing that and it's still humiliating. Probably have a bad account mark for it somewhere. Eventually, her badass mek-killing boss died. New boss? Supposed to be her. Shit.
Because of her terrible stats, there were several times where she had to outright run from any NPC that so much as looked at her funny. Because of the way pathfinding was back in the day (and I really hope it's different now) she'd end up leading Predator XYZ to city ZYX across several miles, on accident yet again, resulting in her being threatened and/or nearly executed on the spot by the relevant authorities.
Minor spoiler in the post above. I, for one, didn't know that spell existed. You should probably edit it out.
What was described doesn't exist as described. Furien only described what it seemed like happened. Find out more IC.
Still, it may be best, Furien, if you edit that bit about the magick out of your post.
waiting a while.
Quote from: Ender on October 28, 2010, 11:12:27 AM
I once invited Muk Utep to my birthday party. And he showed up... with a present.
i delivered (very badly) a poem about the 'nak victory over the Gith at your party. Then I logged off to recover for a while. And
missed Him!
saw the Head of Doom in a fight with a vestric
I feel like such a skill twink today. But only today! And all for good reason. :-[
There is nothing wrong with improving your skills, or desiring to improve your skills, within the bounds of realism.
Being a good roleplayer doesn't mean that you have to shun the code, and I'm getting baffled at the apparent trend on the GDB that working on skills = twinking out. Not only do I hate that word (twink), I think people are just getting way too damn paranoid. It is okay to want to play a character who is competent at the coded things they do.
</rant>
Quote from: a strange shadow on October 30, 2010, 12:00:28 PM
There is nothing wrong with improving your skills, or desiring to improve your skills, within the bounds of realism.
Being a good roleplayer doesn't mean that you have to shun the code, and I'm getting baffled at the apparent trend on the GDB that working on skills = twinking out. Not only do I hate that word (twink), I think people are just getting way too damn paranoid. It is okay to want to play a character who is competent at the coded things they do.
</rant>
QFT.
Yeah but... logging in exactly every 90 mins to practice, log off, log back in 90 mins later? All day? That's shameful.
But I swear there's a good reason! :-[ And it's all emoted and stuff. I'd stay logged in between too, if I had the time.
I was at a party with Utep once. I sang a song about sandwiches.
Right now.
Shame: I stored an ex-Byn deserter who was in the Kuraci fist because my play times had dropped and I felt his plot had kind of run out, only to find out with my next character that the sergeant I deserted from was very much still alive, influential, doing awesome stuff. No doubt I would have eventually been hunted down and executed in an awesome way.
I deprived the game of Plot and Conflict. :(
I was not at a party with Utep... ever. :(
I once logged in for Thanksgiving, only to find that a certain animated mob had already run amok, and because I had not actually PLAYED on Thanksgiving before, I was ICly and OOCly unable to comprehend why nobody seemed to care.
This was recent enough that it was last Thanksgiving. I've been playing for five years.
While trying to get out of bed this morning, in my sleepy haze (not helped by the 4am bedtime and 8am alarm) I was physically stopped by the need to emote it out just in case anybody was watching :-[
Had a long-lived, absurdly badass warrior killed by a certain poison nasty because I didn't know you could eat tablets while blinded.
Quote from: MeTekillot on November 28, 2010, 10:50:19 PM
Had a long-lived, absurdly badass warrior killed by a certain poison nasty because I didn't know you could eat tablets while blinded.
Big difference. :)
Quote from: MeTekillot on November 28, 2010, 10:50:19 PM
Had a long-lived, absurdly badass warrior killed by a certain poison nasty because I didn't know you could eat tablets while blinded.
I didn't think you could eat tablets while blinded (which never made sense to me anyway)
Having an extremely long-lived, pretty badass ranger die of cylops poison because my neighbour knocked on the door, I didn't come back and my ranger was standing outside, unarmed because I was foraging. In the logs I noticed her knock the cylops out a few times, then eventually die to the poison. With pills nearby.
Quote from: Nao on November 29, 2010, 09:03:27 AM
Having an extremely long-lived, pretty badass ranger die of cylops poison because my neighbour knocked on the door, I didn't come back and my ranger was standing outside, unarmed because I was foraging. In the logs I noticed her knock the cylops out a few times, then eventually die to the poison. With pills nearby.
That is a personal Armageddon nightmare of mine, something like that happening to a PC of mine. Scarecrow sends you sympathy.
Meh, probably half of my early characters died to link-loss, back in the day when internet connections were much more unreliable.
Quote from: Synthesis on November 30, 2010, 05:24:50 AM
Meh, probably half of my early characters died to link-loss, back in the day when internet connections were much more unreliable.
You died a lot to experimenting with code in the labyrinth, too. ;)
Quote from: Armaddict on November 30, 2010, 05:29:04 AM
Quote from: Synthesis on November 30, 2010, 05:24:50 AM
Meh, probably half of my early characters died to link-loss, back in the day when internet connections were much more unreliable.
You died a lot to experimenting with code in the labyrinth, too. ;)
I got my ass kicked a lot experimenting with code in the labyrinth, but deaths were usually to lag-outs or link-loss. Remember, the reel code just went in a few years ago, so it used to be much, much easier to flee (provided your ISP was fully cooperative).
My second character (and the first one to live past a few hours of playtime), at 15 or 20 days played, decided to eat a steak she found on the road. Got paralyzed. Got picked up by the first group of soldiers of a certain house while paralyzed. Their lady fainted, the character was blamed. Endless discussion about whether or not to kill her, while I couldn't even emote. Getting dragged back outside, into a tavern, back out and getting killed in an alleyway, still paralyzed.
That sucked.
These days I think it was actually a pretty cool death.
Ate a steak you found on the road...thats great. Not an elf I hope.
Human ranger with plenty of food ;D
Shame: Getting so wasted that I passed out when my character was piloting a wagon...
More Shame: ...while my minions and a hired group of Bynners were downstairs.
Super Shame: A staff member had to finish piloting the wagon back.
I currently have "30 days, 9 hours, and 1 minutes" logged in on my GDB account. This is far, far longer than any PC I've ever had.
Quote from: FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit on December 03, 2010, 12:06:42 AM
I currently have "30 days, 9 hours, and 1 minutes" logged in on my GDB account. This is far, far longer than any PC I've ever had.
Total time logged in: 66 days, 16 hours and 57 minutes.
8 days, 8 hours and 50 minutes
3 days longer than longest lived PC.
Quote from: FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit on December 03, 2010, 12:06:42 AM
I currently have "30 days, 9 hours, and 1 minutes" logged in on my GDB account. This is far, far longer than any PC I've ever had.
I'm at 21 days, 3 hours and 38 minutes.
Quite an accomplishment if it was in-game. :D
Total time logged in: 107 days, 5 hours and 52 minutes.
I'm pretty sure I play the GDB more than the actual game.
I just crossed over 39 days while here at work...
Total Time Spent Online: 39 days, 9 minutes.
Though I started playing in 2001, I never made a GDB account until about a year ago. Shame, I suppose...
Anyway, total time logged in: 6 days, 13 hours and 49 minutes.
Not as long as my longest lived character.
*shrugs*
With one of my newer characters there was a PC walking down the road with no mount. After speaking to him it was clear he was newish. I told him I'd escort him back to the city and instead lead him out into the scrub until he was exhausted them proceeded to try to kill him for the only nice thing he had on him which was a decent looking crossbow. (The sad thing is I'm actually snickering about this as I type it.) He runs away, I hunt him down attack. He runs away, I hunt him down attack. He's so exhausted he can't run far. This happens a few times. Finally he is to exhausted to flee and he cries, "No wait! There's an underground! With treasure!" I kill him anyway, but before I can collect that sweet crossbow he disappears in a poof, apparently not even being a few hours old.
Another shameful thing I did was being in Salarr as one of the prominent hunters there. There was a new character that just annoyed the krath out of me and it was my job to try to teach him how to hunt. We went out to the Grasslands to hunt and he began a commentary on every single thing I did, talking in Tarzan talk some of the time. Finally, annoyed to the brink I tell him fine - you guide us. I ride along at his behest certain that we'll come across a poisonous creature if we head eastward long enough and he will die or at least need to beg me for a cure and shut his trap. So we do run into said poisonous creature and he actually survives but his role play consists of the most annoying stupor ever and he still decides to continue chastising me as I have subdued him and am dragging him back. So after a day and night of this misery I subdue his half dead ass and begin to haul him homeward, we pass a bahamet which I quickly out run - dood in tow.
And then I stop... consider the circumstances I have found myself in, retrace my steps to within one square of the bahamet and type - release zachky. Zachky was never heard of again. It was kinda mean and maybe I should've been more newb patient but it -was- kind of hilarious.
I once found a rare magickal item in Mek poo.
I once purposefully did everything I could to piss off important people in Tuluk and right before I got arrested I bolted onto my kank whenever kanks could go forevar and lead one of their assassins on a chase from Blackwing to Nak because I was bored. I quickly found out there isn't much of a crimcode in Blackwing.
Quote from: Bebop on December 04, 2010, 11:50:15 PM
With one of my newer characters there was a PC walking down the road with no mount. After speaking to him it was clear he was newish. I told him I'd escort him back to the city and instead lead him out into the scrub until he was exhausted them proceeded to try to kill him for the only nice thing he had on him which was a decent looking crossbow. (The sad thing is I'm actually snickering about this as I type it.) He runs away, I hunt him down attack. He runs away, I hunt him down attack. He's so exhausted he can't run far. This happens a few times. Finally he is to exhausted to flee and he cries, "No wait! There's an underground! With treasure!" I kill him anyway, but before I can collect that sweet crossbow he disappears in a poof, apparently not even being a few hours old.
Another shameful thing I did was being in Salarr as one of the prominent hunters there. There was a new character that just annoyed the krath out of me and it was my job to try to teach him how to hunt. We went out to the Grasslands to hunt and he began a commentary on every single thing I did, talking in Tarzan talk some of the time. Finally, annoyed to the brink I tell him fine - you guide us. I ride along at his behest certain that we'll come across a poisonous creature if we head eastward long enough and he will die or at least need to beg me for a cure and shut his trap. So we do run into said poisonous creature and he actually survives but his role play consists of the most annoying stupor ever and he still decides to continue chastising me as I have subdued him and am dragging him back. So after a day and night of this misery I subdue his half dead ass and begin to haul him homeward, we pass a bahamet which I quickly out run - dood in tow.
And then I stop... consider the circumstances I have found myself in, retrace my steps to within one square of the bahamet and type - release zachky. Zachky was never heard of again. It was kinda mean and maybe I should've been more newb patient but it -was- kind of hilarious.
I once found a rare magickal item in Mek poo.
I once purposefully did everything I could to piss off important people in Tuluk and right before I got arrested I bolted onto my kank whenever kanks could go forevar and lead one of their assassins on a chase from Blackwing to Nak because I was bored. I quickly found out there isn't much of a crimcode in Blackwing.
Yeah... Only the first two are pretty shameful - The first for OOC reason and the second for pure IC fun :D
I once had a Rukkian who subdued and threw a carru down a certain large hole in the Tablelands. It fell about 9 rooms and died. I'm not sure which was more humorous... Seeing it fall, or actually finding it dead.
Also, I once accidentally junked a songbird. In public. And decided to play it out as me eating it. That was interesting.
You can codedly eat songbirds.
The **** woman smiles softly as she watches you feed the songbird.
eat songbird -casually
Casually, you eat your purple-feathered songbird.
The **** woman stares at you.
Quote from: MeTekillot on December 05, 2010, 02:47:13 AM
You can codedly eat songbirds.
It troubles me that you know this.
So awesome, though, I haven't really played around songbirds since.
Quote from: MeTekillot on December 05, 2010, 02:47:13 AM
You can codedly eat songbirds.
The **** woman smiles softly as she watches you feed the songbird.
eat songbird -casually
Casually, you eat your purple-feathered songbird.
The **** woman stares at you.
I actually had a gith do this to me. He knocked out my character and then proceeded to eat my songbird.
So I'm still less than 1 year old in arm so I'll keep this pretty vague...
On a road riding along. See some elf uphead it alone with a an sdesc that I saw before.. totally ICly to start some shit with this character. Sneak ahead. See elf is with a bow that is loaded. I'm pretty excited to see someone since its like WAY off-peak now and I think "Wow! A raider! Cool! Mmmm.. OK.. Lets out raid the Raider! Also its totally ICly.. cooooool. Finally!"
So I sneak into the room, start to try my emote-fu in hemotes/semotes/thinks sneaking up to the player. Whole time this player isn't doing ANYTHING but I don't pay attention since I'm trying to emote out. Even skipped a hemote and put in a say where I kicked a rock and cursed right before I snuck up beneath the elf.
So.. I attack. Fight goes on WAY too long. I was REALLY early in the characters life. Few days at most. Barely was able to KO the character. So I subdue the character, drag it away someplace quiet.
After many more emoting.. turns out this elf has NEARLY the same sdesc as the character I thought it was.. and was an NPC that was misplaced.
Raid Fail.
Quote from: Dakota on December 05, 2010, 05:22:56 AM
So I'm still less than 1 year old in arm so I'll keep this pretty vague...
On a road riding along. See some elf uphead it alone with a an sdesc that I saw before.. totally ICly to start some shit with this character. Sneak ahead. See elf is with a bow that is loaded. I'm pretty excited to see someone since its like WAY off-peak now and I think "Wow! A raider! Cool! Mmmm.. OK.. Lets out raid the Raider! Also its totally ICly.. cooooool. Finally!"
So I sneak into the room, start to try my emote-fu in hemotes/semotes/thinks sneaking up to the player. Whole time this player isn't doing ANYTHING but I don't pay attention since I'm trying to emote out. Even skipped a hemote and put in a say where I kicked a rock and cursed right before I snuck up beneath the elf.
So.. I attack. Fight goes on WAY too long. I was REALLY early in the characters life. Few days at most. Barely was able to KO the character. So I subdue the character, drag it away someplace quiet.
After many more emoting.. turns out this elf has NEARLY the same sdesc as the character I thought it was.. and was an NPC that was misplaced.
Raid Fail.
Sounds like perfectly good involuntary Solo-RP for me.
I singlehandedly dodged four years of action and awesomeness. I missed the kank diseases, the gith invasions of '07, the awesomness that happened in the Tablelands. The golden year of Tuluk.
This is a shame, because I was playing the entire time.
What were you doing?
I was in the Tablelands while the Allanak thing was going on.
I was in Tuluk when the Tablelands thing was going on.
I was in Allanak when the Tuluk thing was going on.
All along, I was asking where all these people were when I typed "who."
I'm Malifaxis.
I have no idea who warlord Mallor Tor was. or 80% of the PCs people brag about, really. :-[
To my defense, I've played very much on and off in the past 3-4 years.
Yeah, most of the people you all brag about, I've also never met. I have no idea half of what you're talking about most of the time in this thread. I haven't played off and on either. I know who some of them are, like that they existed, but I didn't know practically any of these people.
One of my (few) account notes mentions Mallor in it:
"Insulted Mallor preeeeeetty badly while on the first mission against the -------- --------- things. Badly enough that had any NPCs been alive to hear it, it'd get back to a superior and he'd be executed."
But that's it.
Quote from: MeTekillot on November 28, 2010, 10:50:19 PM
Had a long-lived, absurdly badass warrior killed by a certain poison nasty because I didn't know you could eat tablets while blinded.
I've had this happen more than once (SHAME)
PC #3 found PC #2's head with a coin stuffed in it's mouth...
PC #3 took the coin.
^^
I've come to accept the fact that I am utterly worthless outside the gates in terms of having a sense of direction. I've never played a ranger or scout, but I am relatively confident if I started north of Tuluk, with an escort, I'd manage to find my way into the Silt Sea by the end of it. It's really that bad.
I too know very few PC's that are mentioned, but that's because of my own lack of experience, especially in Tuluk.
I do, however, know Mallor Tor. He was involved in a lot of different things when he was alive. And he lived a long time. Mallor is responsible for raising Tor from lower house to middle house status. He had his hands in so many different things, that I think it would have been difficult to have an Allanaki character during that year that didn't have contact with him on some level.
Brag/shame: I played Bozi the Tan Muark.
Shame: She's one of the few characters I've had that had more skeletons in her closet than most graveyards and more baggage than most major airlines, and insisted she drag me along through all of it...and I've only myself to blame for putting her into said situations. She was my experiment in "playing dangerous and awkward situations out to the hilt."
....that's not really shameful, come to think of it...I've never had a character I had so much fun with.
Disregard. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Quote from: Pale Horse on December 06, 2010, 06:30:28 PM
Disregard. Move along. Nothing to see here.
For random giggles ... the first, third to last, and last time the word "Bozi" appears in my logs (and no, our chars were not close).
First time (with bonus Voular):
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Hefting up his dull wooden cask under and arm, looking around in a predatory squint, the hunched, weary-eyed man asks, in southern-accented sirihish:
"WHERE ARE THE WHORES!?"
Lifting up a hand to point northwards, the willowy, onyx-braided woman exclaims to the hunched, weary-eyed man, in sirihish:
"THATAWAY!"
Gesturing to the henna-toned young woman, the gimlet puce-eyed woman asks the braid-tressed young woman, in sirihish:
"Have her join me when she wakes up Bozi?"
Third to last:
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At your seat, the slender, raven-haired woman says in sirihish:
"Cita and Bozi both passed out."
Last:
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You think:
"I wonder what Bozi is up to these days ..."
My shame: Managing to be the acquaintance of numerous awesome characters but hardly ever being involved in anyone's life when it's all said and done.
Quote from: Thunkkin on December 06, 2010, 07:58:11 PM
Quote from: Pale Horse on December 06, 2010, 06:30:28 PM
Disregard. Move along. Nothing to see here.
For random giggles ... the first, third to last, and last time the word "Bozi" appears in my logs (and no, our chars were not close).
First time (with bonus Voular):
Quote
Hefting up his dull wooden cask under and arm, looking around in a predatory squint, the hunched, weary-eyed man asks, in southern-accented sirihish:
"WHERE ARE THE WHORES!?"
Lifting up a hand to point northwards, the willowy, onyx-braided woman exclaims to the hunched, weary-eyed man, in sirihish:
"THATAWAY!"
Gesturing to the henna-toned young woman, the gimlet puce-eyed woman asks the braid-tressed young woman, in sirihish:
"Have her join me when she wakes up Bozi?"
Third to last:
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At your seat, the slender, raven-haired woman says in sirihish:
"Cita and Bozi both passed out."
Last:
Quote
You think:
"I wonder what Bozi is up to these days ..."
My shame:
Managing to be the acquaintance of numerous awesome characters but hardly ever being involved in anyone's life when it's all said and done.
:sighs
I had that character for just shy of two actual real life years. And I can
remember the scenes that your logs pull up, excepting that last thought. If I spent long enough on it, I could probably remember every point of that woman's life, from a snippet of conversation or scene.
..I don't think I'm ever going to get over the "character burnout" that I had when I stopped playing her.
Every time I take a break from Arm, something cool happens. Copper Wars, rain/darkness/volcanos, Gith Wars. I log back on after 3-6 months and ask myself "WTF?"
To be fair, I did hear about the Copper Wars from a kid I went to school with who Armed. Thinking that sounds fun, I created a character with all the craziness and fervor of Stephan from Braveheart. (That was my rubrick.) My sole goal was to join the war, and kiss templar ass while saying crazy and patriotic things.
I was deemed too crazy for the Militia and told to join the Byn instead. Not wanting to play another Bynner at that point, I went back on break. :(
Also, I don't know who most of these cool people are either.
Quote from: Decameron on December 06, 2010, 05:37:23 PM
I've come to accept the fact that I am utterly worthless outside the gates in terms of having a sense of direction. I've never played a ranger or scout, but I am relatively confident if I started north of Tuluk, with an escort, I'd manage to find my way into the Silt Sea by the end of it. It's really that bad.
Welcome to the club. Here, have your member card.
It's really that bad for me, too. :-[ If I can't follow an exact given trail I have written down with the directions - two rooms in a different direction, and I'm hopelessly lost.
Map? The staff encourages it in one of the start up docs. I graph papered soooo much Zalanthas in my first year.
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on December 07, 2010, 09:26:27 AM
Map? The staff encourages it in one of the start up docs. I graph papered soooo much Zalanthas in my first year.
I always got to a point where they didn't quite line up, I realized I must have made a mistake trying to graph a certain way, and my map was henceforth unsalvagably inaccurate. :(
I don't have an epic pc to post in the brag thread.
Quote from: Barzalene on December 07, 2010, 11:13:51 AM
I don't have an epic pc to post in the brag thread.
Liar.
I was recalling a time I played a d-elf and I was watching some pc hunt down and skin some feathered creature. I was thinking about how elves are supposed to be clever, sly and thieves. So I slipped on up behind the pc and as it was pilling feathers to one side I was picking them up. The pc was obviously oblivious, emoting out cutting up the thing.. I can not remember if I made a mad grab for a handful of what the pc had gathered and ran, letting myself be seen, but i seem to recall it that way. I also may have only thrown a few semote out there thinking that was the only emote one should use when doing something sneaky. I got a hard smack down from staff for it, took away my karma and everything. I was told that it wasn't proper to only use semote when stealing or something along those lines.
It was early in my arm experience and I must say I have come to understand the point that staff was making.
Quote from: Kalai on December 07, 2010, 09:30:14 AMQuote from: IAmJacksOpinion on December 07, 2010, 09:26:27 AMMap? The staff encourages it in one of the start up docs. I graph papered soooo much Zalanthas in my first year.
I always got to a point where they didn't quite line up, I realized I must have made a mistake trying to graph a certain way, and my map was henceforth unsalvagably inaccurate. :(
That may or may not have been an error on your part. This happens ALL over in this game. There are places where you can go 1n1e1s1w (numbers aren't exact, but the point remains) and end up in a different room than you started in.
Quote from: Potaje on December 07, 2010, 01:33:58 PM
I also may have only thrown a few semote out there thinking that was the only emote one should use when doing something sneaky. I got a hard smack down from staff for it, took away my karma and everything. I was told that it wasn't proper to only use semote when stealing or something along those lines.
It was early in my arm experience and I must say I have come to understand the point that staff was making.
Wait.. I'm actually confused about this..
You stole from someone while hidden.. Used semotes.. and got karma taken away?
Curious to know why? I thought you were supposed to use semote when you emote like that if youre stealing? Or a hemote (aren't they like.. the same thing kinda?) But you lost karma? Over this? Mmmm.. Clarify more pls. Just.. n00b here and am curious.
Semotes are SILENT emotes and are used whenever an action you're making won't make a sound. Nobody will ever see you use a semote while hidden.
Hemotes are hidden emotes, and there is a chance of someone seeing them when you use one of these.
During the HRPT last year, my hours-old character was somewhere around Luir's when darkness fell.
About five minutes later, my he fell in some sort of canyon or something. He stumbled in the dark a bit, fell again and ended up getting himself completely stuck in a hole somewhere, walking around in circles in the dark. He walked around and around long enough that I had to wish up for some sort of help. After explaining that I wasn't even a noob, just an idiot, -someone- kindly gave me a lantern and I made my way back to the Outpost to see what the hell was going on. Two rooms before I arrived at Luir's, the darkness lifted. Nearly the entire time that the whole world was in darkness, I was walking around in a fucking hole...
I also managed to miss every single HRPT and big thing that happened. Always was between characters or something. Luirsfest? Never. Darkness falls and a new moon appears? Yeah, another time, maybe.
Could be worse...I spent that entire HRPT loading a damn wagon up, then when we went out to see what all the fuss was about, my 60-day character got insta-zorched.
during the HRPT:
I was a northie in the south with a certain merchant house. We where getting a wagon loaded and getting ready to ride out, I blinked and everyone was gone from the compound, I ran around the compound looking, not finding anyone, but I did find two mounts sitting un attended outside the compound gate, I shouted about and wait'd a few minutes and sought minds, but nothing so I grabbed a mount and decided it was best to get out of the city.
while making my way I think I mus of blown past the wagon, but I swear I never saw it in my path, I made for one of the gates and started to see bodies, passing a couple of riders that shouted to me not to go towards the gate as I passed and I looked up to see people on fire. I thought, 'Oh' that can not be good. I reined up and wheeled around as a Fiery deamon was taking notice.
Funny thing is i happen to find my way to the wagon as my boss at the time was yelling at me in my head for taking his mount. Funny thing that wagon ends up blazing, after I caught up to it and boarded.
Quote from: My Account Notes
- seems to be scribbling pictures of genitals on temple walls in nak. Npcs present in room at time. <<Nough said...>>
- wished all: "Okay. It worked. Thanks. Now my pants will stay up while I'm rapping!" :) <<Noob, learning the difference between 'belt' and 'waist' locations>>
- To prove to the world that he isn't a homosexual. <<A comment on my dwarven focus >>
Quote from: Potaje on December 07, 2010, 07:44:14 PM
during the HRPT:
I was a northie in the south with a certain merchant house. We where getting a wagon loaded and getting ready to ride out, I blinked and everyone was gone from the compound, I ran around the compound looking, not finding anyone, but I did find two mounts sitting un attended outside the compound gate, I shouted about and wait'd a few minutes and sought minds, but nothing so I grabbed a mount and decided it was best to get out of the city.
while making my way I think I mus of blown past the wagon, but I swear I never saw it in my path, I made for one of the gates and started to see bodies, passing a couple of riders that shouted to me not to go towards the gate as I passed and I looked up to see people on fire. I thought, 'Oh' that can not be good. I reined up and wheeled around as a Fiery deamon was taking notice.
Funny thing is i happen to find my way to the wagon as my boss at the time was yelling at me in my head for taking his mount. Funny thing that wagon ends up blazing, after I caught up to it and boarded.
I'm pretty sure I was link-dead on that wagon.
Even though I've been playing here for over eight years now, I've never had a really big, memorable, world-shaking role.
One day I got sick of it, and decided to app a Jihaen templar. It was approved. I logged into the game, and met my immediate supervisor: Elithan Winrothol.
THUNDER STOLEN
Aupholt was an interesting Jihaen. Definitely not the ninja cookie-cutter. I enjoyed that character a lot.
Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on December 07, 2010, 08:30:04 PM
- To prove to the world that he isn't a homosexual. <<A comment on my dwarven focus >>
This made me laugh, Jack. :) That's awesome.
I was playing a nilazi/physician in Allanak that decided to attach herself to the nearest form of power. I became a Clerk in the AoD. I even got promoted early because I was so efficient and so necessary (there had been a recent death and there were no Sergeants or above besides the Templars). I kept the place in water and food and all sorts of stuff, mostly because I was being tricky and using my magicks in clever ways. Everything was going great. I was actually fairly well branched, but nowhere near powerful, just clever... then an HRPT happened. I will direct everyone to this post:
Quote from: Marshmellow on December 06, 2009, 11:34:22 PM"I said that out loud, did I not?"
Yeah. That was me. What did my character say out loud, in front of two templars (I think?), a bunch of soldiers, a few gemmers and I think some Bynners were there? Well, it was supposed to be a think, but something went horribly horribly wrong when my character says something to the effect of, "Huh, I wonder if that's related to the magick I can call on?"
Yeah, suddenly everyone looks at my character. I could have sworn that I'd used think, so I had no idea why I was suddenly the center of attention. Then someone says something about how what my character said sounds suspiciously like nilazi magicks, considering the thing my character had said it about. I blink. I scroll back. I facepalm. Then the madness starts!
I fled and actually got away with about 1/4 my hp left only to die to what I still consider a twink kill by some jerk later that same day.
You were Aupholt, 5DV? I always thought you were the guy who played Ardan.
There was a long string of rad Jihaens back then, that's for sure.
@marshmellow: where's the shame in that, sounds awesome. Even the necromancers of the void have their slips of the tongue.
Shame?
Quoteonly to die to what I still consider a twink kill by some jerk later that same day.
My first clanned character joined up with Borsail. About an IG week later, I realized I was bored with sitting around sparring, and wanted to go explore the awesome desert some more. (An attitude which is relentless to this day still.)
I wasn't super bored, and longing to do it, but my character was thinking via talk about possibly deserting. One of my fellow recruits was sitting next to me. I was like, shit.. Since I said it.. Now i'm committed. So I ran off into the desert, and got ate by a silt horror trying to go hide out in Red Storm.
Quote from: jstorrie on December 08, 2010, 04:52:56 AM
You were Aupholt, 5DV?
Yes, I played Aupholt Negean. It's funny. His sdesc was something like, "the sturdy, full-bearded man." At the exact same time he was brought into the game, they brought in another Jihaen. His sdesc was "the immense, crescent-bearded man" or something like. Two big, burly bearded Jihaens, purely by coincidence. Between working under Elithan and having a colleague that looked pretty much exactly like him, Aupholt was kind of doomed to obscurity from the get-go. This was reinforced by the fact that he spent much of his (post-virtual) life working on/preparing for Elithan's King's Age celebration... and then was eaten by halflings before he could even attend.
Still, I'm not complaining. It was an incredibly fun role, and I got to do and see some pretty cool stuff before he died. My advice to future templars/nobles/so-and-sos? Just roleplay. Don't worry overmuch about creating or facilitating plots. Just stay in character, and do what your character would do. The rest comes naturally.
Oh, and send reports to staff. Send reports to staff. Send reports to staff.
Quote from: FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit on December 08, 2010, 09:55:59 AM
Quote from: jstorrie on December 08, 2010, 04:52:56 AM
You were Aupholt, 5DV?
Yes, I played Aupholt Negean. It's funny. His sdesc was something like, "the sturdy, full-bearded man." At the exact same time he was brought into the game, they brought in another Jihaen. His sdesc was "the immense, crescent-bearded man" or something like. Two big, burly bearded Jihaens, purely by coincidence. Between working under Elithan and having a colleague that looked pretty much exactly like him, Aupholt was kind of doomed to obscurity from the get-go. This was reinforced by the fact that he spent much of his (post-virtual) life working on/preparing for Elithan's King's Age celebration... and then was eaten by halflings before he could even attend.
I always got you two confused. Also, my fault on the "eaten by halflings" bit. Unless you were the one that was killed in an unrelated halfling event, in which case I was involved, but probably not the direct cause. I have a few logs of some major halfling incursion on the North Road where we were all fighting to get to Ayun Iskandir. I don't remember if I submitted them or if this is even related.
Spent more than a month special-app'ing a mul.
He died in a week...
...during a sparring 'accident'.
When I started playing Buckle I narrowly avoided dying to a scrab within the first day of played time on my character.
Deleted.
Yeah, there probably are a lot of people who don't know that, so you probably shouldn't be posting it on the GDB.
I once applied for a mul and upon entering the game, a templar was animated to lead me to stand at the gates of the Borsail estate.
I waited.
And waited.
And waited some more.
And then I waited.
And then I did this for a while more. Then I stored when I found out no Borsail PCs existed at that time.
Quote from: Marshmellow on December 08, 2010, 04:47:10 AM
I was playing a nilazi/physician in Allanak that decided to attach herself to the nearest form of power. I became a Clerk in the AoD. I even got promoted early because I was so efficient and so necessary (there had been a recent death and there were no Sergeants or above besides the Templars). I kept the place in water and food and all sorts of stuff, mostly because I was being tricky and using my magicks in clever ways. Everything was going great. I was actually fairly well branched, but nowhere near powerful, just clever... then an HRPT happened. I will direct everyone to this post:Quote from: Marshmellow on December 06, 2009, 11:34:22 PM"I said that out loud, did I not?"
Yeah. That was me. What did my character say out loud, in front of two templars (I think?), a bunch of soldiers, a few gemmers and I think some Bynners were there? Well, it was supposed to be a think, but something went horribly horribly wrong when my character says something to the effect of, "Huh, I wonder if that's related to the magick I can call on?"
Yeah, suddenly everyone looks at my character. I could have sworn that I'd used think, so I had no idea why I was suddenly the center of attention. Then someone says something about how what my character said sounds suspiciously like nilazi magicks, considering the thing my character had said it about. I blink. I scroll back. I facepalm. Then the madness starts!
I fled and actually got away with about 1/4 my hp left only to die to what I still consider a twink kill by some jerk later that same day.
Hah! I remember that. The second your character said that magick bit, I started rattling through >key figure, and was set to kill. I held off though, because my brain was melted from the HRPT and I thought it would be inappropriate for Raul to just strike without waiting on the templars. Tsk, tsk.
Tried to teach a Half-giant how to salute.
>tell giant Like this.
>emote taps ^me fist to ^me chest.
>The big half-giant looks at you, for a moment, before nodding.
>The big half-giant throws a meaty fist out at your chest!
A fight ensues and the giant was killed (by guards)...
To this day, I still feel bad about that.
P.S. - To the player that lost their Half-giant because of my epic fail, kudos. Kudos and sorry.
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You were Aupholt, 5DV?
Yes, I played Aupholt Negean. It's funny. His sdesc was something like, "the sturdy, full-bearded man." At the exact same time he was brought into the game, they brought in another Jihaen. His sdesc was "the immense, crescent-bearded man" or something like. Two big, burly bearded Jihaens, purely by coincidence. Between working under Elithan and having a colleague that looked pretty much exactly like him, Aupholt was kind of doomed to obscurity from the get-go. This was reinforced by the fact that he spent much of his (post-virtual) life working on/preparing for Elithan's King's Age celebration... and then was eaten by halflings before he could even attend.
I always got you two confused. Also, my fault on the "eaten by halflings" bit. Unless you were the one that was killed in an unrelated halfling event, in which case I was involved, but probably not the direct cause. I have a few logs of some major halfling incursion on the North Road where we were all fighting to get to Ayun Iskandir. I don't remember if I submitted them or if this is even related.
Funny you should say that. I was playing a private in the USC when Vraj was killed by halflings in Iskandir. I remember being a big weenie like 2 or 3 day assassin who didn't get hurt or poisoned while others, including Vraj died and my guy survived. So then I apped for his opening and got it. I played Gar, the mammoth, crimson-bearded man (later the mammoth, brutally-scarred man because of kryl acid to the face). I went with you guys on the 2nd halfling excursion and sorta snickered internally with Aupholt died, saying that he should have read and written fewer books and paid better attention in training with Gar and Elithan. IRL, I really liked that aspect of Aupholt though. I've never been a very creative RPer like that. I'm more of a problem solver or hack -n- slasher. Having the intellectual colleague around to sort of watch and ask questions to was a lot of fun.
I suffer bragging envy.
Why have my PCs never achieved anything grand? :'( Looking at the bragging thread makes me sad, and makes me curse my timezone some more.
What is worse is having many things to brag about but they are all too IC as long as arm1 is open.
Sigh.
^That's not worse.
Quote from: X-D on December 09, 2010, 02:57:23 PM
What is worse is having many things to brag about but they are all too IC as long as arm1 is open.
Sigh.
I'm sure there's some less-secret stuff that's a few years old now. For example, remember that time you took on an apprentice and he turned out to be the awesomest dude?
My northerner was grabbed off the street by a southern templar, dragged to the Gaj den, questioned there and let loose. Before the templar let her go, he got a jade cross tattooed on her forehead.
Quote from: Akaramu on December 09, 2010, 02:29:01 PM
I suffer bragging envy.
Why have my PCs never achieved anything grand? :'( Looking at the bragging thread makes me sad, and makes me curse my timezone some more.
It's okay, I don't think I achieve anything grand either.
I watched a templar once accidentally fall off the Shield Wall (and die to gith at the bottom) and instead of rushing down to save her, proceeded to cough, tell everyone that this never happened, and started to ride home along the North Road.
I got maybe 3 rooms before the sand kicked up and, this being before the changes to desert navigation, slipped and fell off the Shield Wall, too, taking the 4-5 PCs who were following my PC with me. My PC, with no climb skill, caught himself on the first try, climbed down, jumped on his beetle, waited until everybody else woke up, then rode off, unhurt. Back at the city, he managed to convince another templar to pay him in full for the contract, since he'd done exactly what he was paid to do (protect the templar on the way to a certain place, which they had arrived at prior to her suicidal leap.)
This same PC (who, in hindsight, was hilariously inept) also once tried to commit suicide in someone's apartment by drinking out of a keg full of purple liquid. It wasn't cleaning fluid; it was Oashi wine.
Oh my god, I fucking loled. ^
Quote from: Wolfsong on December 10, 2010, 06:52:28 AM
I watched a templar once accidentally fall off the Shield Wall (and die to gith at the bottom) and instead of rushing down to save her, proceeded to cough, tell everyone that this never happened, and started to ride home along the North Road.
I got maybe 3 rooms before the sand kicked up and, this being before the changes to desert navigation, slipped and fell off the Shield Wall, too, taking the 4-5 PCs who were following my PC with me. My PC, with no climb skill, caught himself on the first try, climbed down, jumped on his beetle, waited until everybody else woke up, then rode off, unhurt. Back at the city, he managed to convince another templar to pay him in full for the contract, since he'd done exactly what he was paid to do (protect the templar on the way to a certain place, which they had arrived at prior to her suicidal leap.)
This same PC (who, in hindsight, was hilariously inept) also once tried to commit suicide in someone's apartment by drinking out of a keg full of purple liquid. It wasn't cleaning fluid; it was Oashi wine.
Your a legend, especially about the Templar falling off the shield wall part. I would so do the same thing....
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I played Sorka Hallan.
No one knows who he was D:
I know! One of the Soh faces from like forever ago.
Kah! Me too !
Tilting his head in a bird-like manner, you say in Sirihish Allundean:
"Kah."
FTFY
Nah, Majickal had it correct, Sirihish or Mirukkim would be the correct languages for his post... Well, and Cav several times.
Not sure if this is a shame or brag, so I'll put it here.
After killing a Soh PC my PC then shouted..
You shout in tribal accented sirihish while looking at your homies, "Quick impression for you: Kah! Kah! Stab! Fuck, I'm dead!"
Quote from: X-D on December 11, 2010, 04:44:16 PM
Nah, Majickal had it correct, Sirihish or Mirukkim would be the correct languages for his post... Well, and Cav several times.
Not sure if this is a shame or brag, so I'll put it here.
After killing a Soh PC my PC then shouted..
You shout in tribal accented sirihish while looking at your homies, "Quick impression for you: Kah! Kah! Stab! Fuck, I'm dead!"
Hahaha... nice reference.
My post was aimed at what was probably only 6 players. None of those players would have missed the reference. Yar.
15+ years and something like 70+ characters and I have never played a noble. Or a templar.
I've only PKed somebody once.
It was a complete and total accident.
Quote from: i can haz mantis on December 11, 2010, 05:37:08 PM
Quote from: X-D on December 11, 2010, 04:44:16 PM
Nah, Majickal had it correct, Sirihish or Mirukkim would be the correct languages for his post... Well, and Cav several times.
Not sure if this is a shame or brag, so I'll put it here.
After killing a Soh PC my PC then shouted..
You shout in tribal accented sirihish while looking at your homies, "Quick impression for you: Kah! Kah! Stab! Fuck, I'm dead!"
Hahaha... nice reference.
OMG! I just got that, every goth kid in the world would snap at it in a moment.
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Quote from: i can haz mantis on December 11, 2010, 05:37:08 PM
Quote from: X-D on December 11, 2010, 04:44:16 PM
Nah, Majickal had it correct, Sirihish or Mirukkim would be the correct languages for his post... Well, and Cav several times.
Not sure if this is a shame or brag, so I'll put it here.
After killing a Soh PC my PC then shouted..
You shout in tribal accented sirihish while looking at your homies, "Quick impression for you: Kah! Kah! Stab! Fuck, I'm dead!"
Hahaha... nice reference.
OMG! I just got that, every goth kid in the world would snap at it in a moment.
I don't get it.
It's from The Crow.
Quote from: Top DollarQuick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! Fuck, I'm dead!
My most shamfull moment was the lost of Standing Rock. I had a d-elf rukian named Standing Rock (30+days), a lot of IC stuff which was moderated out, and it ended with drowning rock.. felt so damn stupid didnt play for a week.. Standing Rock you will always be missed.
I removed some IC information from the above post. Not everyone knows that much about that place or the things you spoke of involving it. It's probably a good idea to keep it that way.
Back on topic, you guys. :D
In over a year of play and... way to many pc's to count. I've had two, count them two, that has lived past the IC year mark.
Longest lived was my Rukkian. 3 ic years. everything else dies literally, around there birthday.
I'm going to stop logging in the week of a pc's year mark to beat this. >.>
I never figured out on my own why Sujaal would say something along the lines of "Plenty of <people> fight with the rebellion." while I was on one of my prejudiced rants against them. Haha.
I had the chance to use the word fagot in it's proper usage, and went with it.
At your table, you say in sirihish, holding out a fagot :
"Here boss. I forgot I had these."
>.>
I've had psi sex.
I'm the person Ampere got his sig quote from.
Ya know I can't believe that one character died the way they did... broke my heart for several days because my finger hit the wrong letter on the keyboard. He might of survived...
Quote from: i can haz mantis on December 11, 2010, 05:37:08 PM
Quote from: X-D on December 11, 2010, 04:44:16 PM
Nah, Majickal had it correct, Sirihish or Mirukkim would be the correct languages for his post... Well, and Cav several times.
Not sure if this is a shame or brag, so I'll put it here.
After killing a Soh PC my PC then shouted..
You shout in tribal accented sirihish while looking at your homies, "Quick impression for you: Kah! Kah! Stab! Fuck, I'm dead!"
Hahaha... nice reference.
Quote from: lordcooper on December 20, 2010, 12:41:56 PM
It's from The Crow.
Quote from: Top DollarQuick impression for you: CawKah! CawKah! Bang! Fuck, I'm dead!
Got home from work and The Crow is playing on G4... like 2 minutes before this scene. I could only think about Arm. I lol'd.
I once hit my backstab alias, while trying to mount my kank.
gee wilikers Lord Templar my hide macro sure is close to the enter key
Is 100% guilty of not emoting much when I'm on my own and then, upon realizing that I'm being watched (imm or otherwise), starting to emote with nearly every action. In my head, I can't help but think, "Idiot, you know they're rolling their eyes at you." On the other hand, I suppose staff is used to this and perhaps, as former players, sympathetic to it. Out of shame, I usually don't get too flowery in these situations so that's not TOO eye-rolling. But I still am totally guilty of this.
On the other hand, I do love it when staff livens something up and brings the world to life in ways that I often forget about until reminded. Thanks staff! Sorry I'm a dweeb. :D
Quote from: Thunkkin on January 27, 2011, 09:32:19 AM
Is 100% guilty of not emoting much when I'm on my own and then, upon realizing that I'm being watched (imm or otherwise), starting to emote with nearly every action. In my head, I can't help but think, "Idiot, you know they're rolling their eyes at you." On the other hand, I suppose staff is used to this and perhaps, as former players, sympathetic to it. Out of shame, I usually don't get too flowery in these situations so that's not TOO eye-rolling. But I still am totally guilty of this.
On the other hand, I do love it when staff livens something up and brings the world to life in ways that I often forget about until reminded. Thanks staff! Sorry I'm a dweeb. :D
I had a feeling I wasn't the only one who did this. I just didn't want to be the first to admit it. I DO THIS TOO!
You people are horrible.
I always emote and think when doing monotonous tasks, whether or not a staff member is present. :))
I need to emote more.
When I am in the mood, I'm an awesome solo-aarrrr-pee'r. It's just that when I usually play is after work, and heavily off-peak. So I'm exhausted AND alone mostly.
Quote from: Lizzie on January 27, 2011, 11:12:12 AM
Quote from: Thunkkin on January 27, 2011, 09:32:19 AM
Is 100% guilty of not emoting much when I'm on my own and then, upon realizing that I'm being watched (imm or otherwise), starting to emote with nearly every action. In my head, I can't help but think, "Idiot, you know they're rolling their eyes at you." On the other hand, I suppose staff is used to this and perhaps, as former players, sympathetic to it. Out of shame, I usually don't get too flowery in these situations so that's not TOO eye-rolling. But I still am totally guilty of this.
On the other hand, I do love it when staff livens something up and brings the world to life in ways that I often forget about until reminded. Thanks staff! Sorry I'm a dweeb. :D
I had a feeling I wasn't the only one who did this. I just didn't want to be the first to admit it. I DO THIS TOO!
Hangs his head in shame.
Quote from: spicemustflow on January 27, 2011, 05:49:01 PM
Quote from: Lizzie on January 27, 2011, 11:12:12 AM
Quote from: Thunkkin on January 27, 2011, 09:32:19 AM
Is 100% guilty of not emoting much when I'm on my own and then, upon realizing that I'm being watched (imm or otherwise), starting to emote with nearly every action. In my head, I can't help but think, "Idiot, you know they're rolling their eyes at you." On the other hand, I suppose staff is used to this and perhaps, as former players, sympathetic to it. Out of shame, I usually don't get too flowery in these situations so that's not TOO eye-rolling. But I still am totally guilty of this.
On the other hand, I do love it when staff livens something up and brings the world to life in ways that I often forget about until reminded. Thanks staff! Sorry I'm a dweeb. :D
I had a feeling I wasn't the only one who did this. I just didn't want to be the first to admit it. I DO THIS TOO!
Hangs his head in shame.
You aren't playing if you aren't emoting, you're just going through tasks mechanically. :-[
I don't really think that's true. If there's nobody around, and my character is doing something, I'm picturing the scene in my head and I know how my character is doing it. Most of the time, it doesn't occur to me to describe that in words for myself when I already have an idea of what's happening. On the off chance that some secret assassin or staffer or somebody is hiding in the wardrobe watching, and I >EAT SAUSAGE, there's a room echo for how I'm eating the sausage. The lack of any elaboration on the generic echo doesn't change the fact that my character is eating the sausage, etc etc.
Quote from: HavokBlue on January 27, 2011, 11:34:50 PM
I don't really think that's true. If there's nobody around, and my character is doing something, I'm picturing the scene in my head and I know how my character is doing it. Most of the time, it doesn't occur to me to describe that in words for myself when I already have an idea of what's happening. On the off chance that some secret assassin or staffer or somebody is hiding in the wardrobe watching, and I >EAT SAUSAGE, there's a room echo for how I'm eating the sausage. The lack of any elaboration on the generic echo doesn't change the fact that my character is eating the sausage, etc etc.
but you can't spam eat sausages like people can twink skills.
Greatest shame:
Seeing Armageddon ranked 21 at TMS.
Quote from: Reiteration on January 27, 2011, 11:29:53 PM
You aren't playing if you aren't emoting, you're just going through tasks mechanically. :-[
emoting =/= role playing.
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Quote from: Reiteration on January 27, 2011, 11:29:53 PM
You aren't playing if you aren't emoting, you're just going through tasks mechanically. :-[
emoting =/= role playing.
emoting + saying = roleplaying
Hack & slash =/= roleplaying
Quote from: Thunkkin on January 27, 2011, 09:32:19 AM
Is 100% guilty of not emoting much when I'm on my own and then, upon realizing that I'm being watched (imm or otherwise), starting to emote with nearly every action. In my head, I can't help but think, "Idiot, you know they're rolling their eyes at you." On the other hand, I suppose staff is used to this and perhaps, as former players, sympathetic to it. Out of shame, I usually don't get too flowery in these situations so that's not TOO eye-rolling. But I still am totally guilty of this.
On the other hand, I do love it when staff livens something up and brings the world to life in ways that I often forget about until reminded. Thanks staff! Sorry I'm a dweeb. :D
Bold and underlined part bolded and underlined for emphasis: no one's saying they don't emote at all when they don't think someone's watching. Everyone who's posted here in agreement with Thunkkin, is agreeing that they don't emote much, during those times. That implies, conversely, that they do emote some. Just not much.
Quote from: Reiteration on January 27, 2011, 11:38:32 PM
Quote from: HavokBlue on January 27, 2011, 11:34:50 PM
I don't really think that's true. If there's nobody around, and my character is doing something, I'm picturing the scene in my head and I know how my character is doing it. Most of the time, it doesn't occur to me to describe that in words for myself when I already have an idea of what's happening. On the off chance that some secret assassin or staffer or somebody is hiding in the wardrobe watching, and I >EAT SAUSAGE, there's a room echo for how I'm eating the sausage. The lack of any elaboration on the generic echo doesn't change the fact that my character is eating the sausage, etc etc.
but you can't spam eat sausages like people can twink skills.
Indeed, you can do it much better. Sausages are far closer to spam than skills are. :D
Quote from: lordcooper on January 28, 2011, 06:48:29 AM
Quote from: Pale Horse on January 28, 2011, 05:59:19 AM
Quote from: Reiteration on January 27, 2011, 11:29:53 PM
You aren't playing if you aren't emoting, you're just going through tasks mechanically. :-[
emoting =/= role playing.
emoting + saying = roleplaying
Hack & slash =/= roleplaying
roleplaying != playing, if you read closer at what I said.
I probably wouldn't emote very much by myself if I thought no one was watching. But I always assume someone is watching.
My shame is that the majority of my characters last one month or less. Some of my favorites lasted almost exactly one month. It seems like the more I love the character, the more likely they are to die 30 days after creation. Just long enough to really get into them, but not long enough to play their story to the hilt.
Quote from: valeria on January 28, 2011, 10:55:13 AM
I probably wouldn't emote very much by myself if I thought no one was watching. But I always assume someone is watching.
My shame is that the majority of my characters last one month or less. Some of my favorites lasted almost exactly one month. It seems like the more I love the character, the more likely they are to die 30 days after creation. Just long enough to really get into them, but not long enough to play their story to the hilt.
My longest-lived character died in the most embarrasing way i could ever imagine, outside of mudsex death. it was more than a year ago but i ought not describe it.
let's just say that the flood caused my death and i wasn't in tuluk.
Quote from: valeria on January 28, 2011, 10:55:13 AM
I probably wouldn't emote very much by myself if I thought no one was watching. But I always assume someone is watching.
My shame is that the majority of my characters last one month or less. Some of my favorites lasted almost exactly one month. It seems like the more I love the character, the more likely they are to die 30 days after creation. Just long enough to really get into them, but not long enough to play their story to the hilt.
Do you mean 30 days of IG playtime or one real-life month like January?
My shame is that I like to think I'm a pretty decent roleplayer, then I run across someone whose emotes, says, and everything else just blows me away.
I always feel so dumb after an encounter like that, and shake my head at my own arrogance for even -entertaining- the idea that I'm a decent roleplayer.
Quote from: DesertT on January 28, 2011, 01:30:01 PM
My shame is that I like to think I'm a pretty decent roleplayer, then I run across someone whose emotes, says, and everything else just blows me away.
I suspect that happens to everyone, without exception. :)
Quote from: DesertT on January 28, 2011, 01:30:01 PM
My shame is that I like to think I'm a pretty decent roleplayer, then I run across someone whose emotes, says, and everything else just blows me away.
I always feel so dumb after an encounter like that, and shake my head at my own arrogance for even -entertaining- the idea that I'm a decent roleplayer.
An important distinction: A good role-player and a good writer are not one in the same. But one certainly compliments the other.
As long as you are capable of understanding your character's motivations, and are able to respond to situations while keeping those motivations in mind, then you are a good role-player. Often, extravagant emotes just show knowledge of vocabulary.
(This can be especially fun when playing a poorly educated character who speaks simply but emotes with great eloquence)
/derail
My shame: I nod at everything. Sometimes it's a well described nod which involves environmental effects and nearby PCs/NPCs, but just as likely it's the "nod" command.
My shameful moments are those when I choose to play Arms even when sleep deprived and cognitively impaired. My RP during those times is so bad (misreading sentences, being inconsistent with the character, no follow through) that I'm just going to apologize to whoever I've interacted and will interact with in those fuzzy times.
Quote from: DesertT on January 28, 2011, 01:30:01 PM
My shame is that I like to think I'm a pretty decent roleplayer, then I run across someone whose emotes, says, and everything else just blows me away.
One if my favorite RPers/their character is actually as basic in terms of emoting as it gets. The character is just so consistent and in being so nonthreatening, lets my focus slip from worrying about churning out an amazing phrase to communicating my character, which is how it should be.
Quote from: DesertT on January 28, 2011, 01:30:01 PM
Quote from: valeria on January 28, 2011, 10:55:13 AM
My shame is that the majority of my characters last one month or less . . . .
Do you mean 30 days of IG playtime or one real-life month like January?
One RL month, regardless of the number of days played. Which has only in no instance exceeded 30 for me =p
my best rp emoting ever came out of the one single moment i remember not trying to be a good emoter.
i need to stop doing that, trying to, rather than just letting it flow. i'm a storywriter and they're supposed to be somewhere between readable and great according to other people.
i had one pretty cool death but that's not shameful.
My longest lived character's background was a re-tooled version of the plot of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
It was late at night on Cingel, the 4th day of the Ascending Sun
In the Year of Drov's Vengeance, year 24 of the 21st Age
I was born in the City of Anallak one-and-twenty years ago, to a guard
employed by the merchant house Kadius.
...
Quote from: brytta.leofa on January 28, 2011, 03:57:43 PM
It was late at night on Cingel, the 4th day of the Ascending Sun
In the Year of Drov's Vengeance, year 24 of the 21st Age
I was born in the City of Anallak one-and-twenty years ago, to a guard
employed by the merchant house Kadius.
...
loooooooooooooooool
:D
Ha, I'll have to see if I can dig up some of my own "gems".
QuoteInitial Background : Jul 30, 2006
It was early afternoon on Waleuk, the 83rd day of the Low Sun
In the Year of Dragon's Agitation, year 28 of the 21st Age
Orphaned at the age of 2. Taken in by street-wise thug. Grew up in the
streets, scavenging and fighting to live. Living by wits and cunning. He
keeps himself distance from everyone e xcept the man who raised himfrom
social sight, to not raise interest in his person.
Yeah... First bio evah. Total wyn, right there.
Start Location: Allanak
Human Pickpocket/Thug
Thankfully, after my first character - I started putting some epic thought into all my bio's.
Bio #2
Quote
Initial Background : Aug 07, 2006
It was dawn on Cingel, the 213th day of the Low Sun
In the Year of Dragon's Agitation, year 28 of the 21st Age
Born and raised in the farming village of Menos, lived a little, quiet
life that was void of much meaning or excitement. His father was a farmer,
who had been born and raised in Menos. His mother had been a traveling
mercenary until she became pregnant with Cutt. His mother settled down in
Menos and raised Cutt to be, both, a farmer and a fighter. As Cutt turned
17, his mother and father had readied their kanks and a wagon to head for
Allanak, to look for something nice to buy Cutt. On their way there,
though, their wagon was ambushed by raiders, and they killed Cutt's mother
and father. Cutt had been left for dead and with little supplies, but he
managed to return back to his hometown of Menos. Finding no meaning in
staying in a life that wasn't his, he took what he could and he left the
farming village of Menos, in hopes of finding his calling to life
elsewhere...
The funny thing is - You can see the time comparison between characters wasn't more than a week :P
I've only had one character die in front of other players.
Quote from: hyzhenhok on January 29, 2011, 09:40:13 AM
I've only had one character die in front of other players.
Quote from: MeTekillot on January 28, 2011, 03:37:12 PM
My longest lived character's background was a re-tooled version of the plot of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
My first rukkian was essentially "Belgareth the sorcerer" From the book of the same name.
If you never read it... I HIGHLY recomend finding a copy.
I haven't made a character based off Doom Guy.
RIP AND TEAR!
Quote from: Medivh on January 29, 2011, 04:53:54 PM
I haven't made a character based off Doom Guy.
RIP AND TEAR!
Rippin' and a tearin?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEgTeX8J4Uo
What sort of Arm type would this guy be? Shameful.
Dan, your avatar is so damn funny.
due to past deaths, i find leaving cities at all frightening, since I know how close (IC-sensitives), (IC-sensitives) and (IC-sensitives) can get to apparently safe places.... and none of those are scrab beetles or kryl. but since my modern characters who have most of their marbles are way more cautious than my past characters its more realistic now.
I sometimes use 'you'/'your' instead of ~character's shortdesc if I'm in a room alone with another char...
Forgive! :-[
Quote from: Mooney on February 04, 2011, 02:27:54 AM
I sometimes use 'you'/'your' instead of ~character's shortdesc if I'm in a room alone with another char...
Forgive! :-[
I do the same, but I use ^ and ! instead of % and ~ when alone. In the case I am typing out long dialogues or emotes, it gives me more space in the buffer. ;)
I've always done the same, I don't see why this is in the shame thread.... is it "BAD" that I sub-mote with the only other person in the room? i consider it a break from the constant !@#$$^$*#~$&~#(*!~(#@!!~!@!^^%
I guess if this is what we're all ashamed of.. I might be to blame.
You do NOT know that you're the only other person in that room. That's why you should be ashamed.
It takes a while to get used to mentally replacing (you) and (your) with (~/!man) and (%/^man), but generally it's a good habit to get into regardless of how many people are in the room. Always practice with the emote code, so you can get it right when the pressure is high!
Quote from: Marshmellow on February 04, 2011, 08:17:56 AM
You do NOT know that you're the only other person in that room. That's why you should be ashamed.
This. There could be three hidden people in the room watching your interaction with the only other visible player in the room. If they all get "The tall, muscular man kisses your lips tenderly" they might be... very confused, to say the least. Best to target people with the coded symbols whenever you can.
Quote from: Cutthroat on February 04, 2011, 08:50:57 AM
Quote from: Marshmellow on February 04, 2011, 08:17:56 AM
You do NOT know that you're the only other person in that room. That's why you should be ashamed.
This. There could be three hidden people in the room watching your interaction with the only other visible player in the room. If they all get "The tall, muscular man kisses your lips tenderly" they might be... very confused, to say the least. Best to target people with the coded symbols whenever you can.
If I were hiding, I daresay I could, in many cases, guess that they don't mean me.
~ sdesc (you)
% sdesc's (your)
! him (you)
^ his (your)
# he (you)
= sdesc's (yours)
+ his (yours)
& himself (yourself)
FROM MEMORY
Once I was playing an assassin, had tracked his prey and was waiting for the kill. Someone in the room I assume was using you/your over ~/% and when they did: Glancing at you, soandso says "Time to go."
Thinking the game was up, I jumped out and attacked. Killing them both. It wasn't until I looked through the log that I realized the player simply wasn't using symbols. The symbols are important folks. /derail
My shame:
I once played a d-elf that not only looked, but acted a good bit like Drizzt in my newby days. He even carried around a black onyx Quirri and dual wielded scimitars.
Quote from: Cutthroat on February 04, 2011, 08:50:57 AM
Quote from: Marshmellow on February 04, 2011, 08:17:56 AM
You do NOT know that you're the only other person in that room. That's why you should be ashamed.
This. There could be three hidden people in the room watching your interaction with the only other visible player in the room. If they all get "The tall, muscular man kisses your lips tenderly" they might be... very confused, to say the least. Best to target people with the coded symbols whenever you can.
This. And use multipul keywords or, better yet, there name.
Cant count how many times I get targeted by accident!
Quote from: Mooney on February 04, 2011, 02:27:54 AM
I sometimes use 'you'/'your' instead of ~character's shortdesc if I'm in a room alone with another char...
Forgive! :-[
You're never alone. =0
Never should've asked to see my account notes...
Not really applying to Armageddon but someone convinced me to give Shadows of Isildur a try. I wound up in some military role and got dragged into some medical lecture thing. Being the volunteer and asked to say something delirious and silly, I responded with "Welcome to Middle Earth." from the motd of the login page.
Quote from: DesertT on February 07, 2011, 11:25:28 PM
Never should've asked to see my account notes...
Scared to ask for mine. Afraid of seeing the word, "skillmax" somewhere in there, although honestly, with no one around, i get too bored to sit in a tavern for longer than two IG hours. But I'm more afraid that I slipped up a role's basic rulebook somewhere in the beginning, considering that I (now) solely use skill leveling to fight boredom while waiting for other people to show up.
Also: about 50% of the ways in which i died IG. embarrassing blushes when it thinks of it. its just so lame, ridiculous or stupid on my part that, i don't know.
Think I just used the NEW ENTRY bio portion for the first time today.
Used it five times. Yes, all today.
I was -way- behind...
I haven't written a single bio entry in my life. Oh wait, I did... 2 or 3 way back (about 2006?) with my Fale bard. But ever since, I've been too lazy. :-[
Quote from: Akaramu on February 09, 2011, 12:36:12 PM
I haven't written a single bio entry in my life. Oh wait, I did... 2 or 3 way back (about 2006?) with my Fale bard. But ever since, I've been too lazy. :-[
I'm really bad about this, as well.
Not once but twice on patrol in a deep dark thickly treed area, my burly soldier accidentally kissed a Templar when trying to keyword something. I was rather embarrassed the first time, but the second time it was just getting out of hand. Since it was an obvious ooc mis step I was lucky enough not to get a reaction, either time, though I wondered what the player on the other end must of been thinking.
Nothing like Soldier loven, some deep forest shoven, while on patrol with your unit and Lord Commander.
*face palm*
I write my bios at work now, when I can't play. It is great incentive to get them done because in my slow hours I can think about the game and not play it.
Quote from: Potaje on February 09, 2011, 02:37:10 PM
Not once but twice on patrol in a deep dark thickly treed area, my burly soldier accidentally kissed a Templar when trying to keyword something. I was rather embarrassed the first time, but the second time it was just getting out of hand. Since it was an obvious ooc mis step I was lucky enough not to get a reaction, either time, though I wondered what the player on the other end must of been thinking.
Nothing like Soldier loven, some deep forest shoven, while on patrol with your unit and Lord Commander.
*face palm*
kiss tree (catching a low-hanging branch in his hand and pressing his lips to its leaves)
Catching a low-hanging branch in his hand and pressing his lips to its leaves, the burly soldier kisses the tall, menacing templar.
think Why does he have tree as a keyword?
I type ls -la sometimes when I mean to type inventory.
about once every two days I get You are not a Templar because I type inc instead of inv. It doesn't help when I'm in a situation, but at least no one else sees.
"No! So-and-so is dying! A kryl killed him!"
"Take his necklace and give it to his wife... we have some explaining to do."
> get necklace
>inc
You are not a Templar.
(urgh.)
>inc
You are not a Templar.
>inv
You are carrying:
a dead man's necklace
(I need to learn how to type.)
Quote from: DesertT on February 07, 2011, 11:25:28 PM
Never should've asked to see my account notes...
Don't take'm personally ;)
Quote from: Reiloth on March 05, 2011, 02:41:17 PM
Quote from: DesertT on February 07, 2011, 11:25:28 PM
Never should've asked to see my account notes...
Don't take'm personally ;)
And how are you not suppose to take your account notes personally? :P
I've gone looking for my own corpses before. :(
Quote from: zakattack on March 04, 2011, 02:45:03 PM
I type ls -la sometimes when I mean to type inventory.
I type 'ls' instead of 'look'. Works especially well on MUDs with a ls social.
Quote from: Nao on March 05, 2011, 05:42:57 PM
Quote from: zakattack on March 04, 2011, 02:45:03 PM
I type ls -la sometimes when I mean to type inventory.
I type 'ls' instead of 'look'. Works especially wel on MUDs with a ls social.
Lol. I have aliased 'ls' to be my global look to prevent this.
When I created my first character, based on what the instructions said I made up a completely random word to describe my PC's eyes, the staff member changed it to emerald.
What social is ls?
'looks sad'
Quote from: zakattack on March 04, 2011, 02:45:03 PM
I type ls -la sometimes when I mean to type inventory.
I don't get how you can type "ls" instead of "i".
I still type 'break' when I am trying to 'cease'. Only when I am in a near death situation and my heart is pounding.
Quote from: spicemustflow on March 06, 2011, 09:04:55 AM
Quote from: zakattack on March 04, 2011, 02:45:03 PM
I type ls -la sometimes when I mean to type inventory.
I don't get how you can type "ls" instead of "i".
'ls' is the command for 'list' and lists files in a directory.
At least on the linux computers. :-\
sudo give_me_sorceror_powers
:(){ :|: &; wall give_me_sorc_powers.txt };:
Quote from: Sam on March 06, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
I still type 'break' when I am trying to 'cease'. Only when I am in a near death situation and my heart is pounding.
I still type break too.
Quote from: Barzalene on March 07, 2011, 09:56:17 PM
Quote from: Sam on March 06, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
I still type 'break' when I am trying to 'cease'. Only when I am in a near death situation and my heart is pounding.
I still type break too.
Just noticed a typo in my description about a month and a half in.
Fuck.
Hit yourself up with the typo command!
...wait do I really get to do that?
Quote from: Bushranger on March 08, 2011, 03:47:02 AM
Quote from: Barzalene on March 07, 2011, 09:56:17 PM
Quote from: Sam on March 06, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
I still type 'break' when I am trying to 'cease'. Only when I am in a near death situation and my heart is pounding.
I still type break too.
Wait, we aren't supposed to type break? :P
You can typo yourself or other characters. No guarantee it gets the typo fixed, though.
Quote from: Barzalene on March 07, 2011, 09:56:17 PM
Quote from: Sam on March 06, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
I still type 'break' when I am trying to 'cease'. Only when I am in a near death situation and my heart is pounding.
I still type break too.
> alias break cease ;D
Also, my 1st PC would constantly over-use the Way and would pass out. Even after getting the hang of the skill, I just continued to have him pass out when over-whelmed (including before nobility)
Quote from: My 2 sids on March 09, 2011, 11:57:28 AM
Quote from: Barzalene on March 07, 2011, 09:56:17 PM
Quote from: Sam on March 06, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
I still type 'break' when I am trying to 'cease'. Only when I am in a near death situation and my heart is pounding.
I still type break too.
> alias break cease ;D
Also, my 1st PC would constantly over-use the Way and would pass out. Even after getting the hang of the skill, I just continued to have him pass out when over-whelmed (including before nobility)
> break plant
Ok.
> break plant
Ok.
> break plant
Ok.
> think Ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
You think:
"Ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
> alias break
Alias 'break' removed.
Quote from: Synthesis on March 09, 2011, 12:18:09 PM
Quote from: My 2 sids on March 09, 2011, 11:57:28 AM
Quote from: Barzalene on March 07, 2011, 09:56:17 PM
Quote from: Sam on March 06, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
I still type 'break' when I am trying to 'cease'. Only when I am in a near death situation and my heart is pounding.
I still type break too.
> alias break cease ;D
Also, my 1st PC would constantly over-use the Way and would pass out. Even after getting the hang of the skill, I just continued to have him pass out when over-whelmed (including before nobility)
> break plant
Ok.
> break plant
Ok.
> break plant
Ok.
> think Ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
You think:
"Ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
> alias break
Alias 'break' removed.
Wouldn't you Wish All in that situation >.>?
My point was that aliasing "break" to "cease" is problematic, because the "break" command has a function in-game.
Thus, if you tried to use the "break" command while it's aliased to "cease," every time you try to "break" a plant, you will instead "cease." You wouldn't have to wish up to fix it, you'd just have to delete the offending alias.
I played a noble at thirteen (rl years old), assuming after playing a mildly-decent bard, it'd be a cakewalk.
I gave up weed for Armageddon.... worst shame ever.
Quote from: Synthesis on March 10, 2011, 02:16:45 PM
My point was that aliasing "break" to "cease" is problematic, because the "break" command has a function in-game.
Thus, if you tried to use the "break" command while it's aliased to "cease," every time you try to "break" a plant, you will instead "cease." You wouldn't have to wish up to fix it, you'd just have to delete the offending alias.
I mean as opposed to thinking.
Quote from: Cindy42 on January 28, 2011, 01:11:47 PM
My longest-lived character died in the most embarrasing way i could ever imagine, outside of mudsex death. it was more than a year ago but i ought not describe it.
I saw a templar jump off the shield wall a few RL years ago. I can't imagine a more embarrassing death than that :D
The ironic part was that all us Bynners were arguing whether to be stereotypes and jump off the shield wall right after her. Then after fighting off giths to save an already dead templar and getting back to safe ground, another Bynner (my character) fell off the wall.
Quote from: SMuz on March 13, 2011, 05:16:57 PM
Quote from: Cindy42 on January 28, 2011, 01:11:47 PM
My longest-lived character died in the most embarrasing way i could ever imagine, outside of mudsex death. it was more than a year ago but i ought not describe it.
I saw a templar jump off the shield wall a few RL years ago. I can't imagine a more embarrassing death than that :D
The ironic part was that all us Bynners were arguing whether to be stereotypes and jump off the shield wall right after her. Then after fighting off giths to save an already dead templar and getting back to safe ground, another Bynner (my character) fell off the wall.
You just named a more embarassing death - dying after fighting to save a dead templar. Especially if it involves falling off the Shield Wall.
Next time wear your sticky suit!
I think I've fallen off the Shield Wall on almost every PC I've played to date.
Oddly enough, none of them died as a result.
Quote from: HavokBlue on March 13, 2011, 10:40:46 PM
I think I've fallen off the Shield Wall on almost every PC I've played to date.
Oddly enough, none of them died as a result.
I most definitely remember at some point being killed by something that was a lot meaner than I was pretending to be, I just can't remember what it was.
during the one HRPT on Tuluk, i ran away from the city and died of dehydration. sort of ironic but not as bad as the templar one X)
i think i've fallen off the Shield Wall once---- was always careful about it after.
All of my PCs fall off everything, none have ever died from it.
One PC fell so many times I requested the climb skill on the grounds that he had climbed out of ten thousand holes in 15 IG years, he should learn something....the request was granted.
That is the shame part, gained a skill because I have butterfingers.
Quote from: Saellyn on March 13, 2011, 08:04:23 PM
You just named a more embarassing death - dying after fighting to save a dead templar. Especially if it involves falling off the Shield Wall.
I thought that would be an honorable death. None of them died, though. Just that templar and the soldier she was trying to save. Which made it even more ironic that the shitcloaks did a better job at surviving :P
Fell down a very nasty drop because my grandmother walked into my room and I turned my head to talk to her... thoughtlessly hitting enter on a directional command I really shouldn't have. Survived the drop (barely). Died trying to crawl her broken body back to the city.
Fell down the Shield Wall on a different character, but she survived because she managed to get a grip part way up and had some badass friends come rescue her.
I think falling off the Shield Wall is a time honored Armageddon tradition.
I've never fallen off of the Shield Wall. And this is having played my share of the Byn, too. :-[
Quote from: Zoltan on March 14, 2011, 07:35:50 AM
I've never fallen off of the Shield Wall. And this is having played my share of the Byn, too. :-[
Ahhh, but the days when the Byn would fall down the gulch every time they passed by... I forget who it was, but it was pretty funny (and probably frustrating for the bynners who were following the sergeant).
Quote from: Zoltan on March 14, 2011, 07:35:50 AM
I've never fallen off of the Shield Wall. And this is having played my share of the Byn, too. :-[
You just jinxed yourself. The mantis head awaits.
Quote from: Myhrrn on March 14, 2011, 10:28:07 PM
Quote from: Zoltan on March 14, 2011, 07:35:50 AM
I've never fallen off of the Shield Wall. And this is having played my share of the Byn, too. :-[
You just jinxed yourself. The mantis head awaits.
Not really. Changes IG mean it's much less likely for Bynners to fall off the shield wall these days.
I have had ten PC's and not a single one has lived to fifteen days, despite my hardest attempts to keep them alive. (Excluding one or two, who I stored or made commit suicide without a valid IC reason for doing so) and I've never made a PC outside of allanak, because I know that my characters would die even faster in a location that I am not familiar with.
Not really sure if I'm more ashamed of my inability to keep a character alive or my unwillingless to countiune playing a character once I get bored of them.
This is years old, 6 probably? I didn't know whether it's a brag or a shame but I always thought it was funny.
I once had a pc that got pretty hated and for a time he called the rinth home. At one point the baddies in the rinth bar decided to have a word with him and a mul npc got particularly touchy with him. I incapacitated the mul which brought on the wrath of all the npc's present and there were quite a few. While handling business the pc's decided they wanted a piece to and drew some weapons. I slayed everyone. Realizing the amount of mayhem he had started he fled to the alleys and was pursued by 'a mob of angry rinthers'. I had got a look at them as they pursued and saw what they were wearing. I waited alongside my favorite muggers for a fresh meal. We slaughtered the mob of rich folks. I imagine staff was saddened by the complete defeat of their baddies and summoned one final npc. He knocked me out in a single round but was incapacitated himself. I woke up first and it didn't go well for the baddy.
Quote from: NOFUN on March 17, 2011, 07:57:52 AM
I have had ten PC's and not a single one has lived to fifteen days
I've never made a PC outside of allanak
you must play the way i do, apparently.
if you're a soloer, there's niches that will keep you alive for a pretty long time as long as you follow several rules of learned-through-several-deaths common sense that are not to be listed for legal reasons, and then there are niches that... will slaughter you and make you feel like a total wuss with the wrong guilds and races.
i'm sure everyone knows this, but for the majority of roles, its a bit easier to survive north of the shield wall.
ALL of my characters who have lived longer than two weeks lived above the shield wall.
and no one cares if you store out of boredom--- at least, i'm assuming no one cares, and is relieved you didn't just suicide on them.
Quote from: bio from first characterOn his arrival at Tuluk, he was quite nervous to find that the sword he was using could well be a militia sword. Not willing to part with a good weapon, he keeps it tucked within his pack within the city gates.
Quote from: account notes- Carrying around and using a Legions sword, despite being warned ICly about consequences that could come of it.
I don't know what inspired me to the epic stupidity of running around with that sword. He eventually got killed by a certain cute looking creature with sharp teeth while walking north of the region by foot and ended up too exhausted to flee, Tuluk soldiers didn't even touch him.
I guess the sword must've been pretty good for a 0 day ranger to kill two gortoks at once. I think I got it off the Salarr weaponseller in Allanak. Which was quite funny, as people were just telling him that it's a bad sword because it was Tuluki, but nobody mentioned that it was a militia sword, and I only found out when I saw that it was standard issue for the Tuluk soldiers.
Also had another pickpocket elf character later on who nicked a Legion sword from their belts and tried to sell it off. She was later criminalized. She even managed to disarm a few soldiers, pick up their sword, and sliced a human soldier to unconsciousness. Then she ran off somewhere and got grabbed by a half giant. I think she survived that encounter. She tried to nick another sword after she got out of jail. I had turned off nosave arrest, and managed to dodge a few half giants. Eventually she passed out because she was practicing barrier in jail and I didn't know the command to turn off barrier.
It took me a few dead pickpockets to realize that they don't have to break free from guards to be skilled.
And I discovered that my first dwarf had about 5 subfocuses. No wonder I got tired of him and stored :P
I had to learn about militia swords the hard way, too. It was just lying there, someone had died defending the gates.
I totally fell victim to a lame death I'd fallen victim to before and knew how to avoid... to consequences for myself and others. DAMN
I think a huge benefit of taking a break once in a while is that your patience goes up and you make less mistakes because you were bored.
Quote from: NOFUN on March 17, 2011, 07:57:52 AM
Not really sure if I'm more ashamed of my inability to keep a character alive or my unwillingless to countiune playing a character once I get bored of them.
Yeah, me too.
Say (Whipping her hair back and forth) Am I kawaii uguu~?
Quote from: NOFUN on April 17, 2011, 05:07:08 PM
Say (Whipping her hair back and forth) Am I kawaii uguu~?
／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
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The tan, blonde man suddenly pulls out a crossbow.
The tan, blonde man exclaims, in sirihish:
"This is a holdup!"
The tan, blonde man exclaims, in sirihish:
"Hands in the air, packs on the ground!"
One of my first PCs. I was about 13-14
The more times I read that log... the funnier it gets.
Quote from: Trance on April 17, 2011, 09:08:04 PM
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The tan, blonde man suddenly pulls out a crossbow.
The tan, blonde man exclaims, in sirihish:
"This is a holdup!"
The tan, blonde man exclaims, in sirihish:
"Hands in the air, packs on the ground!"
One of my first PCs. I was about 13-14
That entire log, except for the tan, blonde man, is a shame.
Kudos to you, mate.
Quote from: NOFUN on March 17, 2011, 07:57:52 AM
I have had ten PC's and not a single one has lived to fifteen days, despite my hardest attempts to keep them alive. (Excluding one or two, who I stored or made commit suicide without a valid IC reason for doing so) and I've never made a PC outside of allanak, because I know that my characters would die even faster in a location that I am not familiar with.
Not really sure if I'm more ashamed of my inability to keep a character alive or my unwillingless to countiune playing a character once I get bored of them.
After receiving my account notes for the first time I now realise that none of my characters have lived to five days. ;_;
..Maybe my current character will be the one who lives for two years?
Maybe they will. :)
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on April 17, 2011, 09:19:45 PM
Quote from: Trance on April 17, 2011, 09:08:04 PM
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The tan, blonde man suddenly pulls out a crossbow.
The tan, blonde man exclaims, in sirihish:
"This is a holdup!"
The tan, blonde man exclaims, in sirihish:
"Hands in the air, packs on the ground!"
One of my first PCs. I was about 13-14
That entire log, except for the tan, blonde man, is a shame.
Kudos to you, mate.
Yeah, I'll play out a robbery scene with you any time.
Iesane (ACCT) has been killed by a lanky, brown-skinned gith, amen.
EDIT:
I guess Staff will get this more than other people will.
Was he a gith?
My first special app was for a cat person. Maybe I'll try again when slave pcs are allowed. :3
I've fallen into the same (very deep) hole a couple of times due to accident or another person's intent. Each character was not very hardy. Each time they lived.
I did it on purpose (well, I went that way on purpose, expecting I /probably/ wouldn't make it. I didn't /fall/ on purpose). Character was pretty BA. I died.
I only, just today, figured out how to gamble with that damn woman in the Tembo's Tooth.
I still don't understand it.
I've only been through the new Tuluki pre-shopping area once. Upon reviewing a log today, I realized that the second room has two vendors - and I totally missed the second one with armor and weapons. And the room desc clearly points this out. I had thought, "Screw this, there's no weapons or armor? That's what I'm saving my sids for. SKIP!"
*hangs head in shame*
Happened to me.
Quote from: Thunkkin on April 21, 2011, 04:44:29 PM
I've only been through the new Tuluki pre-shopping area once. Upon reviewing a log today, I realized that the second room has two vendors - and I totally missed the second one with armor and weapons. And the room desc clearly points this out. I had thought, "Screw this, there's no weapons or armor? That's what I'm saving my sids for. SKIP!"
*hangs head in shame*
Wait, what?
Quote from: Pale Horse on April 22, 2011, 10:25:54 AM
Quote from: Thunkkin on April 21, 2011, 04:44:29 PM
I've only been through the new Tuluki pre-shopping area once. Upon reviewing a log today, I realized that the second room has two vendors - and I totally missed the second one with armor and weapons. And the room desc clearly points this out. I had thought, "Screw this, there's no weapons or armor? That's what I'm saving my sids for. SKIP!"
*hangs head in shame*
Wait, what?
When you point Tuluk, you get taken to a shop to buy some starting equipment as an alternative to starting in the "newbie gear". I believe when staff announced it, they said they will work on one for Allanak next.
I had a character who wanted to be a 'rinth superhero. Even went out of his way to get a matching cape, shield, mask, and weapon. Funnier part was that staff actually put a very positive account note on that, mainly for the weird solo RP. I guess I was so in character as a dwarf that I didn't realize how silly the idea was (which ironically made it good roleplay).
Quote from: SMuz on April 22, 2011, 01:17:19 PM
I had a character who wanted to be a 'rinth superhero. Even went out of his way to get a matching cape, shield, mask, and weapon. Funnier part was that staff actually put a very positive account note on that, mainly for the weird solo RP. I guess I was so in character as a dwarf that I didn't realize how silly the idea was (which ironically made it good roleplay).
Could he jump small midden heaps in a single bound? Was he faster than a speeding erdlu? Was he the Man of Chitin?
I wish I could say what it was. I'll just say now, if I'd kept my mouth shut, I'd be alive.
So, even though this thread was totally dead:
I had a fail sarge briefly.
This Byn sergeant:
0. Called Mallor Tor "fucking stupid" to his face on a contract while as a Runner.
1. Accidentally got his former sergeant (and lover) killed and was promoted to fill her position. (By giving her his knot of spice to carry into Allanak, do be do)
2. Accidentally got his entire unit killed by walking them into an ambush. He survived without a scratch.
3. Tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Wall, failed.
4. Deserted the Byn for a week. He spent the entire week locked in a merchant's apartment, begging them to kill him.
5. Tried to drink what appeared to be cleaning fluid. It was wine.
6. Drank ALL THE WINE.
7. Got out. Pretended he'd never tried to desert the Byn. Recruited new Runners and Troopers.
8. Got them all killed. Again. He survived without a scratch.
9. Got rich. (Never had to pay anybody for successful contracts, because he only ever survived them?)
10. Was one day hired to escort a templar to the pit by Luirs. Did so. Long story short, the templar ended up flying off the wall and dying to gith. Sergeant attempted to leave, making all the (new!) runners swear it never happened. On the way bad, a sandstorm kicked up. Everybody fell off the Wall. Sergeant caught himself, climbed down, gathered up his mounts and runners and left. Hunters rescued a beetle or two for him. Nobody died (but the templar.) Everybody got paid (ahead of time.) Everybody else found out, though, and there was drama.
11. Became depressed and morbid. Left Byn. (Partially for OOC reasons, as I was still in school then.) Moped in the bar. New runners came in and called him "brutal" and "effective" - which was hilarious, because he was incompetent and bumbling.
11.5. Didn't bow to a templar after being asked to and was beaten to within an inch of his life.
12. Eventually joined Kadius.
13. Stored.
Quote from: Wolfsong on October 05, 2011, 01:08:28 AM
12. Eventually joined Kadius.
13. Stored.
Save for the last two, that was a total brag.
joined Kadius?! yeah. He looked in the mirror while @ the manor, saw this brutish/incompetent/effective/bumbling figure staring back at himself dressed silks and looking like a fruit and threw himself out the window.
1-11 = great brag.
12-12 = great shame.
No matter what they say, babe, I'll always love you and think your characters are pure shameful.
Quote from: Riev on April 21, 2011, 12:42:11 AM
I only, just today, figured out how to gamble with that damn woman in the Tembo's Tooth.
I still don't understand it.
I've been trying to do that for two years.
think ive said this before... Spiders.
I was Lt. Raul's supposed first ever casualty on his rides.
I remember because just the day before he was talking about how he'de never lost a runner on a ride. Next day,n boom, dead runner. i felt so bad...
Edit: I'm reply 666! This was aparently evil.
Quote from: Fredd on October 22, 2011, 04:38:45 PM
I was Lt. Raul's supposed first ever casualty on his rides.
I remember because just the day before he was talking about how he'de never lost a runner on a ride. Next day,n boom, dead runner. i felt so bad...
Edit: I'm reply 666! This was aparently evil.
You know he was probably lying just to keep you all from avoiding the RPT, right? :P
Quote from: Synthesis on October 22, 2011, 05:02:31 PM
Quote from: Fredd on October 22, 2011, 04:38:45 PM
I was Lt. Raul's supposed first ever casualty on his rides.
I remember because just the day before he was talking about how he'de never lost a runner on a ride. Next day,n boom, dead runner. i felt so bad...
Edit: I'm reply 666! This was aparently evil.
You know he was probably lying just to keep you all from avoiding the RPT, right? :P
This was from before the rpt.
at The big rpt of catastrophy i was playing a cavalier.... And I missed it due to rl.... i hated myself.
I did go to allanaks though as an Oash Elite. I was the first one to tell the templar " yeah, we need to go back, Lord Templar..."
LOL
We want to fight five gith. Don't worry, Lady Templar - this is going to be beautiful.
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Quote from: Fredd on October 22, 2011, 04:38:45 PM
I was Lt. Raul's supposed first ever casualty on his rides.
I remember because just the day before he was talking about how he'de never lost a runner on a ride. Next day,n boom, dead runner. i felt so bad...
Edit: I'm reply 666! This was aparently evil.
Yeah, first PC casualty, I think. It was a tie between you... AND THE MUL ARGH! (<--- is one of Zoltan's shames. Kids, don't ride into a sandstorm without a ranger you can trust. It doesn't matter how big your nutsack is, or how bored you think your runners are. Just say no.) The best is when Niema fell down that chasm... what a fucked up play session. Raul was preparing to drop in there himself, because falling off of god damned cliffs is just something he did during his acts of heroism. Luckily she talked him out of it. :D
ICly, your character was the first casualty, too. In Raul's background, he had actually never led Bynners in battle before being transferred back to Allanak and the Dusky Gortoks (ie, when I first started playing him). When he was first made a sergeant, he was put "in charge" of keeping the shelves stocked and ordered in the northern compound. One of the many reasons he always had such a large chip on his shoulder about seeking glory (also why he found organizing the Byn storeroom and his officers' storage soothing).
This has been a Raulgasm. Consider yourselves lucky: Valeria has to put up with them all the time.
My current shame is that I have a character right now who's someone I've always wanted to play, but Skyrim came in and took all my free time. I finally updated my bios to make myself feel a little less guilty. :-\ Fortunately, Skyrim's icy grip is thawing...
Quote from: Wolfsong on October 05, 2011, 01:08:28 AM
0. Called Mallor Tor "fucking stupid" to his face on a contract while as a Runner.
My shame: Not killing this Runner. On the other hand, I try not to kill other PCs without a really good reason to, a philosophy given wings by the series of events this character experienced following the first mistake.
Quote from: Zoltan on November 24, 2011, 10:31:22 AM
Raul was preparing to drop in there himself, because falling off of god damned cliffs is just something he did during his acts of heroism.
:)
That was so much fun.
Once upon a time, a PC of mine poisoned a fruit.
Then gave the fruit to someone. (aka Snow White style)
Then watched that woman suffering the poison echo for 2 fucking irl hours, while rping nursing her and comforting her on my PC's lap. (yeah she did not suspect me)
After 2 irl hours, her health was at good.
I remember going mental, and decided the good old way is the best. I didn't have another 2 IRL hours to wait and watch if her health might go into poor.
So I knived her to death.
To this day, her endurance stat put me to shame.
... Did you die?
R-r-r-ranger quit.
Quote from: Adj on December 04, 2011, 05:52:47 PM
Once some IMM animated NPC subdued me and dragged my halfway across the salt flats with my ranger. I broke free and ran away. Fresh out of stanima with the creature running back to get me. I quickly
emote digs a hole and hides under the sand.
quit
x
I would have gone for:
emote ducks and covers
think So long suckers!!!1111
quit
x
Roommate in college convinced me to play a rukkian shortly after I first begun playing arm. '98 or so.
So we could team up and start a guild of sorts.
This is my first magiker char ever.
One day, stoned out of my mind, was sitting in the temples in Tuluk.
When I get it into my head that its really boring just sitting here praticing the spells.
Then it hit me, the greatest idea ever, mind you I was higher than a kite.
Head to a tavern,
looked about and shouted "Long live ruk and roll!!!'
cast quake
repeat
Yep, I was behind the rukkian that destroyed Flints. :-[
Was absolutely hillarious how Flint kept runing in and out of the tavern and getting knocked off his feet.
I was chased out of town by a IMM led mob and eventually caught, exhausted , out of mana, and strung up.
>playing a rukkian
>stoned out of my mind
I see what you did there.
Quote from: HavokBlue on December 08, 2011, 07:06:37 PM
>playing a rukkian
>stoned out of my mind
I see what you did there.
And here I was playing Whirans to get high...
And krathis to get stoked, and vivaduans to get juiced, and elkrans for the charge, and drovians for the black beauties, and nilazi to consort with evil and have your soul consumed by a demon.
The blackwing tribe created a punishment pit for my long lived blackwing warrior :(
He escaped and died in the process. (Attacked a npc, didn't have the heart to attack my pc tribemates).
If blackwing is still there, my great contribution to the game world.
I managed to get a promotion, was going to be in a very cool situation, and then died having only told 1 person about the promotion. :(
Quote from: Twilight on December 09, 2011, 05:32:23 PM
I managed to get a promotion, was going to be in a very cool situation, and then died having only told 1 person about the promotion. :(
That person told everyone she could, though, and everyone commiserated. :-*
Small consolation, though, I know.
Quote from: Booya on December 09, 2011, 06:22:17 PM
Quote from: Twilight on December 09, 2011, 05:32:23 PM
I managed to get a promotion, was going to be in a very cool situation, and then died having only told 1 person about the promotion. :(
That person told everyone she could, though, and everyone commiserated. :-*
Small consolation, though, I know.
I was bummed out for like an RL day over that.
My first day logged onto my first noble, a few years ago, I decided, "Y'know, I'm talking with a templar about some sensitive stuff. I think I should barrier up."
Yeah. There's no way to look dignified passed out on the floor of a swanky tavern, no matter how much silk you're wearing.
Quote from: Agent Noun on December 10, 2011, 02:08:57 PM
My first day logged onto my first noble, a few years ago, I decided, "Y'know, I'm talking with a templar about some sensitive stuff. I think I should barrier up."
Yeah. There's no way to look dignified passed out on the floor of a swanky tavern, no matter how much silk you're wearing.
Sure there is. Wake up, blame the heat, and slap your toady who was supposed to be fanning you.
Could be worse. They could've stripped ya.
Did they? :P
Quote from: Iiyola on December 10, 2011, 06:15:48 PM
Could be worse. They could've stripped ya.
Did they? :P
Would've been a much better story.
"Hey, cousin. Did I ever tell you about the time I passed out with that High Templar? And I could never find my pants again after that? Yeah. I liked those pants, too."
Quote from: Agent Noun on December 10, 2011, 02:08:57 PM
My first day logged onto my first noble, a few years ago, I decided, "Y'know, I'm talking with a templar about some sensitive stuff. I think I should barrier up."
Yeah. There's no way to look dignified passed out on the floor of a swanky tavern, no matter how much silk you're wearing.
barrier
You suffer from use of the way
Your vision goes black.
em Swooning, @ collapses out of his seat with a wrist on his forehead, letting out a soft, svelte groan.
Swooning, the supple-skinned, viridian-eyed man collapses out of his seat with a wrist on his forehead, letting out a soft, svelte groan.
Back before I knew a lot about the game's syntax, I knew you could target people with ~2.guy and sit at 4.table but I would always forget to do it.
So once, I walked into 'wagon' instead of '2.wagon' and somehow, perhaps because I already had the commands stacked, I walked right past the wagon's guards without any movement delay.
I then had to explain how the fuck I got there to some very unhappy, bewildered people who'd previously been engaged in an... ahem, intimate encounter.
Newbs have the best luck.
Quote from: evilcabbage on December 10, 2011, 08:35:48 PM
Quote from: Agent Noun on December 10, 2011, 02:08:57 PM
My first day logged onto my first noble, a few years ago, I decided, "Y'know, I'm talking with a templar about some sensitive stuff. I think I should barrier up."
Yeah. There's no way to look dignified passed out on the floor of a swanky tavern, no matter how much silk you're wearing.
barrier
You suffer from use of the way
Your vision goes black.
em Swooning, @ collapses out of his seat with a wrist on his forehead, letting out a soft, svelte groan.
Swooning, the supple-skinned, viridian-eyed man collapses out of his seat with a wrist on his forehead, letting out a soft, svelte groan.
XD!
Quote from: evilcabbage on December 10, 2011, 08:35:48 PM
Quote from: Agent Noun on December 10, 2011, 02:08:57 PM
My first day logged onto my first noble, a few years ago, I decided, "Y'know, I'm talking with a templar about some sensitive stuff. I think I should barrier up."
Yeah. There's no way to look dignified passed out on the floor of a swanky tavern, no matter how much silk you're wearing.
barrier
You suffer from use of the way
Your vision goes black.
em Swooning, @ collapses out of his seat with a wrist on his forehead, letting out a soft, svelte groan.
Swooning, the supple-skinned, viridian-eyed man collapses out of his seat with a wrist on his forehead, letting out a soft, svelte groan.
How did you know my noble's sdesc!? He was always so proud that his skin was the supplest.
Mind bender evil cabbage knows all.
Umm... because I just remembered Arm after all these years... playing Octavian Meleth, a "nice" templar that managed to get promoted, probably because the Imms loved the absurdity of having such an idiot arbitrarily dictating what happened in Allanak.
Considering that you were honored to be the place where they drop off all the corpses, amongst other ... less important things. I'd say Imms hated you :D
Quote from: Dar on January 17, 2012, 08:33:26 PM
Considering that you were honored to be the place where they drop off all the corpses, amongst other ... less important things. I'd say Imms hated you :D
More like I actively chose the surname....
I always presumed Meleth was the first name, haha.
I will by quiet for a year but... I laughed. Purely because it seems like, if I'm enough of a dunce, other people follow suit. :)
Quote from: evilcabbage on December 10, 2011, 08:35:48 PM
Quote from: Agent Noun on December 10, 2011, 02:08:57 PM
My first day logged onto my first noble, a few years ago, I decided, "Y'know, I'm talking with a templar about some sensitive stuff. I think I should barrier up."
Yeah. There's no way to look dignified passed out on the floor of a swanky tavern, no matter how much silk you're wearing.
barrier
You suffer from use of the way
Your vision goes black.
em Swooning, @ collapses out of his seat with a wrist on his forehead, letting out a soft, svelte groan.
Swooning, the supple-skinned, viridian-eyed man collapses out of his seat with a wrist on his forehead, letting out a soft, svelte groan.
I was there for that. I was like :o and LOL'd.
This happened today [EDIT] So I can't tell you about it.
Hey that didn't happen a year ago or more you should probably edit it out!
What's funny is; whoever finds your corpse will think the gurth killed you :P
Quote from: Heade on January 29, 2012, 11:00:22 PM
This happened today. lol
Please edit your post, Heade.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on January 29, 2012, 11:36:30 PM
What's funny is; whoever finds your corpse will think the gurth killed you :P
I already got it don't even try.
I missed two chances to give people kudos. I don't remember enough about them anymore to point them out and I wonder how much people like getting kudos.
Kudos are pretty much better than getting Karma.
I pretty much always forget to send kudos. :(
I've been having a fantastic time whenever I do get to play, though. You all rock.
Years ago I played one of the most silken-clad gemmers Nak has ever seen. Kaen the Oashi Whiran was awesome and I have so much to brag about with him but his tastes in clothes were gawdy in the extreme. It got so bad that a very perturbed templar who he often worked with (Kishime I think?) was forced to inspect him. He got off easy, the templar being more annoyed at a borsail noble pestering him over that crap. The shame though? I really did deserve it, when he inspected me me I had my gloves on hiding the 3 ruby rings and other bling.
I think I pissed off so many people and was likely #1 in their thoughts when they ranted on the GDB. I still think it was perfectly IC for him. He was vain, extremely wealthy (and no, not from foraging salt), and would regularly bribe his Kadian merchant to give him the time of day. Ahh, Oash was great to play in back then. Too bad I got killed by an awesome staff animation just before the Copper War.
...isn't that a brag? Not a lot of people can pull off a silky fashionista male mage..
Yeah that's pretty awesome man.
When sitting in a tavern and people are just idling, the thought crosses my mind to do really random, OOC shit.
pemote Suddenly exploding in a tremendous gout of blood, @ body parts and guts fly all over everyone in the room.
emote begins masturbating vigorously.
emote Startling some nearby patrons, @ suddenly screams at the top of his lungs. His knuckles turn white as his hands grasp the table tightly during his screaming. (Then act like nothing at all happened.)
You should go to the Odd Urges thread, Bacon.
Quote from: MeTekillot on February 12, 2012, 04:39:49 PM
You should go to the Odd Urges thread, Bacon.
I thought about that. I also thought they were kind of shameful so I decided on this one.
One time I brought the laptop with me to the bathroom so I can play Arm while I do the number 2.
Quote from: Intrepid237 on February 12, 2012, 08:41:24 PM
One time I brought the laptop with me to the bathroom so I can play Arm while I do the number 2.
Man, you gotta do that
every time you're in a no-law area (or at night) without the 'hide' skill maxed. I've lost at least 2 rangers to bahamets because I was like, "fuck it, my hide skill's probably good enough to go drop a deuce real quick."
You're a ranger ... Quit.
Quote from: musashi on February 13, 2012, 01:30:15 AM
You're a ranger ... Quit.
You don't log back in hidden.
Quote from: Hot_Dancer on February 09, 2012, 09:27:59 PM
...isn't that a brag? Not a lot of people can pull off a silky fashionista male mage..
Haha, it was awesome as a player. But there was so much griping about uppity gemmers circa 2006 it's always been a shame of mine that I added to that impression. Just because a gemmer may look overly comfortable doesn't mean they don't get discriminated and you can always do some discriminating yourself. For me it was always 'rinthers and nobles that really laid it on thick, and I tried to add some Vnpcs into my emotes to always show my status. But meh, people see a gemmer sitting in the Barrel with silks on they make up their minds on the spot.
All right, for some shames from my n00b days:
- I played my first character on Arm for about an hour. I was using emotes instead of says because that's the way it was done on the other RPish mud I played. Someone told me to use the language code. I thought that was stupid since I liked to emote with says, not realizing how awesome the emote code actually is here. Didn't play again for two years.
- My first actively played character was a n00b in Tuluk. I was all bows to merchant house members and may have even thrown out a M'lady or two. He died fighting a big, club wielding mob. I was so confused when he got knocked out but still had half his hp. That's when I discovered stun.
- Next PC had handsome in his Sdesc. Got plenty of GDB hate and I could only be like "oops, I'm new". Followed an elf down the well in the 'rinth to "practice assassin skills". Amazingly wasn't killed but ended up paying the elf for a pick or some spice. Became a spy for Oash in the Atrium but was super n00b and quite blatantly sneaked in and out of a noble's party.
- Third one was a dwarf in Kurac. AI endurance (over 130 hp I think) but poor wisdom. At day 5 he was still mangling his Sirihish back when dwarves didn't speak it as well right out of the box. Awesome in an unarmed match though. Died trying to "save" a linkdead character who was one room away from the red storm gates. The gate guards weren't impressed...mantis head.
- By the fourth or fifth I was getting the hang of it. Had an awesome Haruch Kemad PC in the 'rinth. To be flashy he wore a certain type of cloak that wasn't the normal 'rinth wear. I didn't understand it had two versions though. I lost all his eq after he got killed by a keyword error and someone resurrected him. So I headed back to re-equip him and get what I thought was 'rinth safe gear. It wasn't, died less than an hour after getting resurrected. :-\
Quote from: musashi on February 13, 2012, 01:30:15 AM
You're a ranger ... Quit.
If you just killed something, you have to wait for a while before you can quit. Sometimes you just can't wait that long.
How quickly a deuce can turn into a peace out
I might've already posted that story, but ... I'm bored.
So I am playing a Red Fang who tends to knock people out and then instead of robbing them clean makes them return back to their home cities and report in on merchant traffic, etc. Now this time, he meets a halfbreed who actually attacks 'him'. Great my RF thinks. So he KOs the halfbreed and drags him on the ledge above the span, then keeps him subdued and waits for him to wake up.
Time passes, the halfbreed wakes up and the RF starts singing his song. All the usual stuff. You live because I let you live, you'll report on the trafic, you get a cut, yada,yada,yada. The halfbreed is in full cooperation mode. He agrees to everything. It is now about time to let him go and go on. But .. nooo ... I decide to be fancy. Instead of going "release halfbreed" I go ... throw halfbreed up.
You shove the halfbreed up
The halfbreed goes up
The halfbreed ... ... ... never comes down.
I couldnt find the halfbreed minds ever since.
There was a 3 room drop on each side of the ledge ... 4 if you count the room I tossed him to ... upwards.
"facepalm" sooo sorry.
yeah you already posted that
First time I've read it, though - And that shit's hilarious.
Lesson for today: Gravity, in Zalanthas, is fickle - at best.
I swear my Red Fang actually did the same thing once in one of those Pah holes.
That was hilarious :)
Quote from: Yam on February 16, 2012, 04:47:52 AM
I swear my Red Fang actually did the same thing once in one of those Pah holes.
Kah? Though I was quite bummed on the inside because you obviously didn't mean to kill the mark, on the outside I was laughing so hard.
Do to mismatched up and down rooms I once won an archery range competition with a shortbow vs someone's greatbow. I shot up near, they shot very far west. Mine went 5 rooms west. Flex. Perhaps a bit silly, but it was funny to me.. I was nice enough to wait for a windy day so it had some RP support.
My first and only long lived PC was a southern Kuraci breed. He rode around in Winrothol Guard armor, telling everyone he took it from the corpse of a noble.
Somehow, he survived numerous encounters with militia groups.
My first character was a Rinthi elf who loved being in Tuluk...
Yup.
Lived three months.
My first character made fun of some Wyverns.
He got thrown off a roof :(
My first character followed a 'friend' into a shadowy alley. I didn't know how to flee, even though I survived the backstab.
Beep.
My first character went hunting by herself. The shame of being killed by a pot-bellied gurth. :(
... I didn't think even the weakest merchant could actually die to a gurth.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 27, 2012, 08:47:27 AM
... I didn't think even the weakest merchant could actually die to a gurth.
That's what I thought about ritikki. ::)
Quote from: Romy on February 27, 2012, 09:00:16 AM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 27, 2012, 08:47:27 AM
... I didn't think even the weakest merchant could actually die to a gurth.
That's what I thought about ritikki. ::)
Vestric. Sorcerer.
..... lots of vestric?
Vestric are so evil. :<
I had a Whiran around maybe 2004 that got lots of folks mad, assassinated a noble, and was somehow dumb enough to go into an apartment with a Kuraci family member. Beep.
Quote from: Ktavialt on February 27, 2012, 02:26:31 PM
I had a Whiran around maybe 2004 that got lots of folks mad, assassinated a noble, and was somehow dumb enough to go into an apartment with a Kuraci family member. Beep.
I misread at first and thought you said Kadian. I was going to ask if the shame was that you got killed by a tailor.
Quote from: Ktavialt on February 27, 2012, 02:26:31 PM
I had a Whiran around maybe 2004 that got lots of folks mad, assassinated a noble, and was somehow dumb enough to go into an apartment with a Kuraci family member. Beep.
If you are who I think you are, I was sad when you died.
Quote from: Maso on February 26, 2012, 11:20:54 PM
My first character went hunting by herself. The shame of being killed by a pot-bellied gurth. :(
I had my second or third PC die to a Jozhal. I was walking through the desert and had too little stamina to flee. Whoopsies.
Jozhals are hardcore.
Spawned my first Tuluki and decided to be a hunter to learn the land. Needless to say; I learned not to go into the Grey Forest within 7 hours, as my account notes state with the obligatory time of death.
Promptly made a second character that was exactly the same except female. Lived for a month. before a similarly novice mistake cost me my life.
I used 'derp' in-game. Force of habit. :(
Quote from: WWYD on March 02, 2012, 11:03:15 PM
I used 'derp' in-game. Force of habit. :(
Once went... "Boom... Headshot."
After a successful head-shot kill.
That might be appropriate for a half-giant with a club to yell.
I once got a chiding email from .. Morgenes I think, who spanked me for winning the throwing game with a name "BerklovesTuluk".
My character was a tuluki and Berk was a tuluk hating southie. We loved making fun of each other in the Byn.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on March 02, 2012, 11:18:47 PM
Once went... "Boom... Headshot."
After a successful head-shot kill.
I remember this. lol ;D
"A sand-filled sparring dummy swiftly dodges your hit."
A close second would be overusing the Way and knocking myself out in training yard shortly afterwards. At least I recovered before my corporal walked in.
Quote from: WWYD on March 02, 2012, 11:03:15 PM
I used 'derp' in-game. Force of habit. :(
I had a note on one of my characters that said "uses words like shenanigans".
I'm not sure if it was a positive or negative note :|
Quote from: Ender on March 19, 2012, 05:33:52 PM
Quote from: WWYD on March 02, 2012, 11:03:15 PM
I used 'derp' in-game. Force of habit. :(
I had a note on one of my characters that said "uses words like shenanigans".
I'm not sure if it was a positive or negative note :|
Probably negative. I'd totally pistol-whip the next guy who says "shenanigans". 8)
Quote from: Rhyden on March 19, 2012, 05:41:03 PM
Quote from: Ender on March 19, 2012, 05:33:52 PM
Quote from: WWYD on March 02, 2012, 11:03:15 PM
I used 'derp' in-game. Force of habit. :(
I had a note on one of my characters that said "uses words like shenanigans".
I'm not sure if it was a positive or negative note :|
Probably negative. I'd totally pistol-whip the next guy who says "shenanigans". 8)
Hey, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls?
There's nothing wrong with the word shenanigans.
Quote from: Ender on March 19, 2012, 05:50:16 PM
Quote from: Rhyden on March 19, 2012, 05:41:03 PM
Quote from: Ender on March 19, 2012, 05:33:52 PM
Quote from: WWYD on March 02, 2012, 11:03:15 PM
I used 'derp' in-game. Force of habit. :(
I had a note on one of my characters that said "uses words like shenanigans".
I'm not sure if it was a positive or negative note :|
Probably negative. I'd totally pistol-whip the next guy who says "shenanigans". 8)
Hey, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls?
Fuddruckers?
Large cheeseburger ... It's for a cop
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on March 02, 2012, 11:18:47 PM
Quote from: WWYD on March 02, 2012, 11:03:15 PM
I used 'derp' in-game. Force of habit. :(
Once went... "Boom... Headshot."
After a successful head-shot kill.
I use it in thinks and feels ALL the time.
Derp, I mean. >_>
*puts helmet on*
Shenanigans
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3119/3087742641_17d465d2e4_z.jpg?zz=1)
All those player kudos make me cry like a little baby.
I love this community so much.
Actually, I wanted to post this as a RAT and not in this thread, but I guess it kind of qualifies as a geeky shame.
in the past two days i've logged well over 24 ours.
Quote from: spacewars on March 23, 2012, 03:02:44 AM
in the past two days i've logged well over 24 ours.
Awesome. Keep it up! :)
My shame: I'm an elitist pig.
I'd rather log off and read a book than try to get some remotely interesting interaction out of bland, two-dimensional characters who don't seem to put any thought into anything, always smile and don't seem to have any goals, ideas or opinions. Sure, if I realize it's a new player I'll RP with them anyway. But otherwise... even if they are ten layers deep but won't show me even a glimpse of it, I'm just not getting any entertainment out of it.
There, I have confessed my sin, I'll pray ten Ave Maria and ask for forgiveness.
Quote from: Akaramu on March 23, 2012, 08:14:59 AM
My shame: I'm an elitist pig.
I'd rather log off and read a book than try to get some remotely interesting interaction out of bland, two-dimensional characters who don't seem to put any thought into anything, always smile and don't seem to have any goals, ideas or opinions. Sure, if I realize it's a new player I'll RP with them anyway. But otherwise... even if they are ten layers deep but won't show me even a glimpse of it, I'm just not getting any entertainment out of it.
There, I have confessed my sin, I'll pray ten Ave Maria and ask for forgiveness.
It's always possible that those "bland, two-dimensional characters" see you the same way and just aren't bothering with you... just saying...
My shame is that that even if I make up distinct routines for different pcs, after awhile they always start doing (almost) the same things (depending on location).
I know, it's terrible, which is why I confessed in the shame thread. Maybe they are just playing from work and unable to pay much attention to anything. :-[
MOST interactions are fun, though, or can be turned into something fun.
QuoteOkay the face of the man getting pistol whipped is black, but his arm is white? WTF?!?!
Your monitor, calibrate it.
Quote from: Akaramu on March 23, 2012, 08:14:59 AM
My shame: I'm an elitist pig.
I'd rather log off and read a book than try to get some remotely interesting interaction out of bland, two-dimensional characters who don't seem to put any thought into anything, always smile and don't seem to have any goals, ideas or opinions. Sure, if I realize it's a new player I'll RP with them anyway. But otherwise... even if they are ten layers deep but won't show me even a glimpse of it, I'm just not getting any entertainment out of it.
There, I have confessed my sin, I'll pray ten Ave Maria and ask for forgiveness.
Krath, woman. You have described my real life.
A few of mine:
I never PKed some one or been PKed.
I never can have a PC played over a week in real life. So maybe a year or two IG.
I thought getting a eye-patch IG was going to be easy without roleplay of what happened during the event, only telling what happened after because it didn't even happen. That was a blast RPing that.
Quote from: Barsook on March 24, 2012, 10:02:24 AM
I thought getting a eye-patch IG was going to be easy without roleplay of what happened during the event, only telling what happened after because it didn't even happen. That was a blast RPing that.
I have to tell you that I had never facepalmed in real life before that moment, I must thank you for that new experience :D
Not a problem.
Quote from: Akaramu on March 23, 2012, 08:14:59 AM
My shame: I'm an elitist pig.
I'd rather log off and read a book than try to get some remotely interesting interaction out of bland, two-dimensional characters who don't seem to put any thought into anything, always smile and don't seem to have any goals, ideas or opinions. Sure, if I realize it's a new player I'll RP with them anyway. But otherwise... even if they are ten layers deep but won't show me even a glimpse of it, I'm just not getting any entertainment out of it.
There, I have confessed my sin, I'll pray ten Ave Maria and ask for forgiveness.
U should be ashamed
I never do biographies.
I quit doing them too.
By the time I remember to do one, all my shit is out of order.
I gave in to an odd urge. :-[
6 years of play, 14 pcs.
I need to play more dangerously.
Play how you want to.
Some people like magically aware death ninjas, some people like back room dealers..
Quote from: ShaLeah on March 26, 2012, 09:24:22 PM
I never do biographies.
I used to do a LOT of them. This character, I haven't been as inspired for Bios, I've been too busy with other stuff.
Quote from: Adj on March 30, 2012, 11:21:29 PM
Quote from: Hot_Dancer on March 26, 2012, 09:48:06 PM
By the time I remember to do one, all my shit is out of order.
I just copy and paste my character reports. Or will.
I've been tempted to do this... >.>;;
Quote from: Taven on April 02, 2012, 07:36:49 AM
Quote from: Adj on March 30, 2012, 11:21:29 PM
I just copy and paste my character reports. Or will.
I've been tempted to do this... >.>;;
I try to file a character report at least every couple weeks. Before I file a report, I try to get my bio entries up to date. I copy and paste the new bios at the end of the report.
Don't know if that's better for staff than just looking them up, but they haven't complained yet. ;)
Quote from: brytta.leofa on April 02, 2012, 09:38:15 AM
Quote from: Taven on April 02, 2012, 07:36:49 AM
Quote from: Adj on March 30, 2012, 11:21:29 PM
I just copy and paste my character reports. Or will.
I've been tempted to do this... >.>;;
I try to file a character report at least every couple weeks. Before I file a report, I try to get my bio entries up to date. I copy and paste the new bios at the end of the report.
Don't know if that's better for staff than just looking them up, but they haven't complained yet. ;)
Man, you must have short bios. When I write a bio (when I used to...) it would take several bio slots. IE, "part 1", "part 2", and so on. I think my largest had 4 parts.
Someday, when they are old enough, I will submit a few to Org. Sub.
Quote from: Taven on April 02, 2012, 10:40:04 AM
Man, you must have short bios. When I write a bio (when I used to...) it would take several bio slots. IE, "part 1", "part 2", and so on. I think my largest had 4 parts.
Ah, true. Mine are like 1-3 'graphs.
I just paste an awesome scene in my bio, with thoughts and feelings included. Sums it up mostly.
Quote from: Iiyola on April 03, 2012, 01:52:41 AM
I just paste an awesome scene in my bio, with thoughts and feelings included. Sums it up mostly.
I should do that more...I log like a psychopath..or at least add snippets of logs into bios
Quote from: Bast on April 03, 2012, 02:10:59 AM
Quote from: Iiyola on April 03, 2012, 01:52:41 AM
I just paste an awesome scene in my bio, with thoughts and feelings included. Sums it up mostly.
I should do that more...I log like a psychopath..or at least add snippets of logs into bios
Quote from: Bast on April 03, 2012, 02:10:59 AM
Quote from: Iiyola on April 03, 2012, 01:52:41 AM
I just paste an awesome scene in my bio, with thoughts and feelings included. Sums it up mostly.
I should do that more...I log like a psychopath..or at least add snippets of logs into bios
When I used to obsessively compulsively bio, I would have long paragraphs describing everything in detail, and then supporting log snippets. Someday, I really will post those up for y'all to see. I predict you'll get tired of them half-way through, if you get that far. I ramble a lot, I think.
I have a habit of logging everything. This works well, except for when my logs get lost or my logging malfunctions. I lost nearly all of February and the latter half of January, for example. :-\
This character alone, I have over 200 RL hours played, yet it's only been just an IC year since he's been alive.
Dear god, where has the time gone?
I hate when I make a grammatical error while talking in game. I'm usually pretty solid on the grammar but if I'm in a hurry (or sleepy) I'll make mistakes and it's terrible. That is my shame right now, making errors between they're/there/their, your/you're, to/two/too. I get the most ashamed though when I do the no/know mistake, that's just terrible.
Quote from: Karieith on April 30, 2012, 09:12:43 AM
I hate when I make a grammatical error while talking in game. I'm usually pretty solid on the grammar but if I'm in a hurry (or sleepy) I'll make mistakes and it's terrible. That is my shame right now, making errors between they're/there/their, your/you're, to/two/too. I get the most ashamed though when I do the no/know mistake, that's just terrible.
This, or a few times where I've made mention to common sayings IRL that hold no reference to the games setting which leaves me feeling like a Tard. Tends to happen most when I'm busy and playing from work.
I like writing character reports, because it helps me arrange the things happening in my own character's life in something more cohesive and structured.
Then again, every so often I read my own chara reports at some year old character and I wonder how do Imms even understand wtf am I talking about. It's riddled with grammatical errors, skipped words, and missed sentences.
I actually had a character report which I clearly wrote while actively playing, it had a sentence my character said in the game. So I just typed in whatever was on my mind. Totally unrelated to the actual report. Lots of facepalm moments.
Quote from: Akaramu on May 06, 2012, 03:05:46 AM
Also: How shameful is it to avoid a clan because of the IC boss you'd have? OOCly not wanting to get involved with them?
I've stored because of bosses.
I never have. I did push to have one killed that my pc didn't like once though. Pretty much all the underlings agreed to take them out first chance anyone got.
My shame part: I thought they did a really good job but didn't enjoy playing as their minion because my pc didn't enjoy it. I felt bad OOC when they were killed by one of us underlings. They probably never saw it coming.
Quote from: Karieith on April 30, 2012, 09:12:43 AM
I hate when I make a grammatical error while talking in game. I'm usually pretty solid on the grammar but if I'm in a hurry (or sleepy) I'll make mistakes and it's terrible. That is my shame right now, making errors between they're/there/their, your/you're, to/two/too. I get the most ashamed though when I do the no/know mistake, that's just terrible.
I'm sometime ashamed by it but then I realize that I'm often carrying 2-3 conversations at the same time at a pretty rapid pace AND they usually all make sense (at least to me.)
Quote from: Malken on May 06, 2012, 01:55:02 PM
Quote from: Karieith on April 30, 2012, 09:12:43 AM
I hate when I make a grammatical error while talking in game. I'm usually pretty solid on the grammar but if I'm in a hurry (or sleepy) I'll make mistakes and it's terrible. That is my shame right now, making errors between they're/there/their, your/you're, to/two/too. I get the most ashamed though when I do the no/know mistake, that's just terrible.
I'm sometime ashamed by it but then I realize that I'm often carrying 2-3 conversations at the same time at a pretty rapid pace AND they usually all make sense (at least to me.)
I swear on this recent role I'm playing I seem to make ALOT more errors. And I don't know why! it drives me crazy.
I stored a dwarf with exceptional strength and endurance, who was also more than good in the other two stats, and who also had a fun focus. Just because I felt like playing another character which I wasn't able to get into.
I once walked into a gith hole in the tablelands, with someone else in tow.
... On purpose.
... We died.
Ego ftl.
tried to assassinate someone. Didn't know nosave combat was on.
Adj's shame: playing drunk. :P
I hate when I do something that's influenced by RL common sense or preferences and then am ridiculed by other PCs IG. The most recent incident is too recent, but on a different game, it was cold and there wasn't a bathhouse, so my character using my stupid "common sense" didn't bathe after getting blood all over her from WATCHING someone else kill something. (The blood code was ridiculous.)
So she was just chillin' in a tavern (it always happens in a tavern V_V;) and someone was like, "UGH you stink. Why don't you bathe?"
"Huh?" <--me not even realizing.
"You're covered in blood!"
-checks desc. Instantly ashamed. Makes something up on the spot- "Duh. It's cold outside. What, should I go freeze in the lake, get sick and die?"
"...Bathing in cold water doesn't make you sick."
Insert much flailing and rebuttal that didn't help and the whole tavern laughing at me as I storm out.
It actually caused an OOC argument, which I also lost. So shameful! Damn my pride and assumed knowledge!
Yeah check real-life assumptions at the door in any RPI, that's what I've found is the best.
I typically do, but I occasionally get tripped up.
I've caught myself a few times before I faux pas'd though. I nearly told someone to 'look it up' once and almost talked about the placement of letters in names...which ICly, I wouldn't know 'cause duh, illiterate! Heh ^_^;
Also, I've stopped myself from sarcastically saying, "Magic!" when someone asks how something was done. Woo, willpower against my RL tendencies!
"How'd that get up there?"
"Magic!"
Would be BAD. -laughs-
Quote from: Morrolan on May 30, 2012, 01:45:55 PM
Quote from: PurpleParrot on May 30, 2012, 03:54:38 AM
"How'd that get up there?"
"Magic!"
"Sharps!"
It just, like, sprouted legs and totally walked, man. Tek as my witness.
A few of my human con artists managed to say something like, "I totally fucked with his mind. When I was done with him, he didnt know left from right." Or something similar like that. That's how you get a mind bender rep :D.
I am a terrible elitist when it comes to people who start emotes by using your character and then continue to address them but instead of using !^# (etc) they use his/hers.
It's an instant immerzions remover.
I'd much rather see YOU than my sdesc and sort of feel that it could easily be achieved and why hasn't this changed since I know I idead it 11 years ago and everyone should feel like I do.
I am coming to the realization that I am much more Tuluki in my play than Nakki even though by FAR I prefer Allanak's grittiness to the nuance of Tuluk; the characters my characters hate have zero clue.
I have newbies showing me shit on the game I had no idea existed even though I've been around way longer than they have.
I have way more karma than I deserve.
Quote from: ShaLeah on May 31, 2012, 02:03:38 PM
I am a terrible elitist when it comes to people who start emotes by using your character and then continue to address them but instead of using !^# (etc) they use his/hers.
It's an instant immerzions remover.
I'd much rather see YOU than my sdesc and sort of feel that it could easily be achieved and why hasn't this changed since I know I idead it 11 years ago and everyone should feel like I do.
I am coming to the realization that I am much more Tuluki in my play than Nakki even though by FAR I prefer Allanak's grittiness to the nuance of Tuluk; the characters my characters hate have zero clue.
I have newbies showing me shit on the game I had no idea existed even though I've been around way longer than they have.
I have way more karma than I deserve.
I'm with the karma police, I need to confiscate some of your excess karma.
Arrest this man. He talks in maths.
Quote from: ShaLeah on May 31, 2012, 02:03:38 PM
I have way more karma than I deserve.
Imposter syndrome.
They buzz, like a fridge, or like a radio which has been incorrectly tuned.
Quote from: Yam on May 31, 2012, 02:51:24 PM
Arrest this man. He talks in maths.
I'm stoked for Radiohead. Not even two weeks. I'll take pics if I can.
Quote from: Kismetic on May 31, 2012, 09:21:03 PM
Quote from: Yam on May 31, 2012, 02:51:24 PM
Arrest this man. He talks in maths.
I'm stoked for Radiohead. Not even two weeks. I'll take pics if I can.
Oh man. I love Radiohead...but was so dull live.
We're going pretty off topic here. Unless you're ashamed of Radiohead.
Quote from: Iiyola on May 31, 2012, 09:31:27 PM
We're going pretty off topic here. Unless you're ashamed of Radiohead.
I ashamed of the GDB police that I associate with in this community. :p
And this just feels like, spinning plates.
/derail
Quote from: Maso on May 31, 2012, 09:39:04 PM
Quote from: Iiyola on May 31, 2012, 09:31:27 PM
We're going pretty off topic here. Unless you're ashamed of Radiohead.
I ashamed of the GDB police that I associate with in this community. :p
Requent many forums? They're everywhere.
I actually got pretty frustrated with a pc I ran once. He had some mild to very outrageous hemotes and nobody ever (almost never) reacted to them. Sometimes I was like ... Am I really so damn stealthy, or they choose not to react, wtf.
Quote from: PurpleParrot on May 30, 2012, 01:00:14 AM
I hate when I do something that's influenced by RL common sense or preferences and then am ridiculed by other PCs IG. The most recent incident is too recent, but on a different game, it was cold and there wasn't a bathhouse, so my character using my stupid "common sense" didn't bathe after getting blood all over her from WATCHING someone else kill something.
Word. The first few weeks I played I had a constant mental litany of DON'T MENTION WRITING DON'T MENTION MAGIC DON'T MENTION WATER. I still have to catch myself from using verbs like "drowned," and sometimes they sneak through.
Honestly, what catches me up all the time is IC tolerance of homosexuality. Every single MU*/RPI I've ever played on had major OOC bias against gay players/characters, major IC bias against open homosexuality, or both.
Elves, magic, variable post-apocalyptic tech levels, gender equality, godkings, sure! No problem! No one caring who my character kanks as long as they're the same caste and species?
What is this I do not understand.
I feel that drowning could be a valid verb, it wouldn't be common, but I can see some poor smuck drowning because he was so thirsty that when he got back to his clan compound he stuck his head in the tun and never came back out.
Or, you know, Tuluk.
I have heard 'drowning in silt' plenty of times.
Quote from: Reiteration on June 11, 2012, 03:03:15 AM
I feel that drowning could be a valid verb, it wouldn't be common, but I can see some poor smuck drowning because he was so thirsty that when he got back to his clan compound he stuck his head in the tun and never came back out.
Amos, he was so thirsty, he leaned over that cistern and tipped hisself over and fell in and he couldn't get out no matter how hard he kicked.
Finally he smothered.
Quote from: Samoa on June 11, 2012, 05:12:06 AM
I have heard 'drowning in silt' plenty of times.
This is what I always figured.
I used fish once. I don't remember in what conext. I felt like an idiot the very moment I hit enter.
Babies can drown in very little water.
Yeaaah. I imagine after the events of a few years ago, the word "drowned" have inserted itself into the Zalanthan lexicon, at least in Tuluk. Especially for denizens of Undertuluk, those guys probably even know how to spell it.
Quote from: Samoa on June 11, 2012, 05:12:06 AM
I have heard 'drowning in silt' plenty of times.
You can totally drown in the Byn lavs.
Quote from: Maso on June 13, 2012, 09:09:46 AM
Quote from: Samoa on June 11, 2012, 05:12:06 AM
I have heard 'drowning in silt' plenty of times.
You can totally drown in the Byn lavs.
Ever since the gith times, I've wanted to try, but I don't use disposable PC's.
I forget the context, but a few years ago I told someone: "There ain't no party like a Tuluki tea party. Hey! Ho!" :-[ <--- Shame
I regularly miss things in crowded rooms, and have on many occasions, asked someone to sit who is already seated, much to everyone's confusion...
I once gave a speech without noticing that two thirds of my audience was asleep. And because one third wasn't, I couldn't just play it off.
Quote from: BadSkeelz on June 16, 2012, 08:12:10 PM
I once gave a speech without noticing that two thirds of my audience was asleep. And because one third wasn't, I couldn't just play it off.
lol, that is epic
I haven't logged in in the past week.
leading a group as a mundane hunting a sorc. The group contained a Templar, A preserver, a HG and a few others. My clanmate incapacitates the sorc w. a backstab after we chased his ass down.
The shame is this... Rather than do a scene w. this sorc who was near-death death and KO'd.. Even a series of interaction with emotes while he was incapacitated.. With easily over 20+ karma in total in the room.. This group (me included!) just ganked him with nary an emote after he was dropped.
But I always felt sorry for that sorc's PC who was emoting when me and the other Salarri were chasing him down in those tunnels.
I've retired soooooooo many guys.
Whenever I ride along in a group, doing something awesome IG, I use 'change mood' to play a Zalanthaized version of some kind of song that's easy to sing along to. Or not. They all sound horrible. Every time I have a break, I 'change mood <line>'
SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH SALT AND SPICE
WHEN YOU SEE THE SAND GITH
BREAK THEIR BONES AND SLIT THEIR THROATS, MEN
IF YOU SEEK TO PREVAIL
THIS 'SIDIAN BLADE IS WHAT PROPELS ME
WEAPONS RAISED WITH A CRY
AIM STRAIGHT FOR HIS SMELLY BROW
BUT STAB HIM STRAIGHT THROUGH THE EYE
WIELD.
SWORD.
KILL.
GITH.
As an example. I'm so sorry, everyone.
Quote from: jstorrie on June 24, 2012, 07:22:21 AM
I've retired soooooooo many guys.
+1
My shame from those comes from the fact that most of those PCs still had stories to tell but
I gave up on them.
ShaLeah- who is NO good at commitment
Being not in the mood to play Arm.
Quote from: ShaLeah on June 24, 2012, 09:05:38 AM
Quote from: jstorrie on June 24, 2012, 07:22:21 AM
I've retired soooooooo many guys.
My shame from those comes from the fact that most of those PCs still had stories to tell but I gave up on them.
Same here. Boredom strikes fast.
Quote from: jstorrie on June 24, 2012, 07:22:21 AM
I've retired soooooooo many guys.
Me too. Wish I could bring some of them back.
Quote from: Barsook on June 24, 2012, 09:07:55 AM
Being not in the mood to play Arm.
Quote from: ShaLeah on June 24, 2012, 09:05:38 AM
Quote from: jstorrie on June 24, 2012, 07:22:21 AM
I've retired soooooooo many guys.
My shame from those comes from the fact that most of those PCs still had stories to tell but I gave up on them.
Same here. Boredom strikes fast.
I'm ashamed to say I NEVER get bored, ever. Even when I am tavern sitting for HOURS on end and there is no one around at all.
I never retire PCs out of boredom.
I blew up a long lived and locally 'famous' character by opening the wrong container.
I was stupid and had multiple containers with the same keywords.
Quote from: ShaLeah on June 24, 2012, 09:37:01 AM
I'm ashamed to say I NEVER get bored, ever. Even when I am tavern sitting for HOURS on end and there is no one around at all.
What do you do? You can't be thinking and feeling all that time, can you?
Quote from: spicemustflow on June 24, 2012, 05:34:42 PM
Quote from: ShaLeah on June 24, 2012, 09:37:01 AM
I'm ashamed to say I NEVER get bored, ever. Even when I am tavern sitting for HOURS on end and there is no one around at all.
What do you do? You can't be thinking and feeling all that time, can you?
I'm not ashamed of not being bored... I _love_ being a tavern fixture... but I do feel bad that I'm not contributing to the enjoyment of others when I see a person or two at the bar and I've over at a table, my state of mind firmly rooted in happy-lazy time.
Want some real advice? Impossible to be bored and high. :P
Quote from: spicemustflow on June 24, 2012, 05:34:42 PM
Quote from: ShaLeah on June 24, 2012, 09:37:01 AM
I'm ashamed to say I NEVER get bored, ever. Even when I am tavern sitting for HOURS on end and there is no one around at all.
What do you do? You can't be thinking and feeling all that time, can you?
Think, eat, drink, contact, feel, l <direction>, craft, walk, shop, go afk to do lots of RL shit. :)
Quote from: marko on June 24, 2012, 01:49:24 PM
I blew up a long lived and locally 'famous' character by opening the wrong container.
I was stupid and had multiple containers with the same keywords.
And all this time the Plainsman got the blame.
Quote from: EldritchOrigins on June 25, 2012, 01:47:55 AM
Quote from: marko on June 24, 2012, 01:49:24 PM
I blew up a long lived and locally 'famous' character by opening the wrong container.
I was stupid and had multiple containers with the same keywords.
And all this time the Plainsman got the blame.
If memory serves me right, word about the container incident got out pretty fast.
Shame: Long long ago I attacked a particularly nasty (now gone) creature in the eastern grasslands out of OOC curiosity, ignoring any and all IC precautions I should have taken. My PC didn't deserve to survive, but he did. Never landed a single blow on the creature though.
I'm playing a gemmed Ruk and I found a bag of spice stashed, just off the outer circle of Allanak. My character, two vivs an elkros and another guy are all camped on the edge of the salt flats doing spice and drinking. It is before dawn and we are attacked by an elf or elves from distance with arrows. We lose one person in the attack and that character was named after a real life apple. I couldn't help, but say "They shot her, they shot her right through the core."
We would have saved her, but the gate guards didn't let the other guy drag her through the gates, obvious magicker racism. That is when she was shot her through the core.
Quote from: chrisdcoulombe on June 25, 2012, 03:55:45 PM
I'm playing a gemmed Ruk and I found a bag of spice stashed, just off the outer circle of Allanak. My character, two vivs an elkros and another guy are all camped on the edge of the salt flats doing spice and drinking. It is before dawn and we are attacked by an elf or elves from distance with arrows. We lose one person in the attack and that character was named after a real life apple. I couldn't help, but say "They shot her, they shot her right through the core."
We would have saved her, but the gate guards didn't let the other guy drag her through the gates, obvious magicker racism. That is when she was shot her through the core.
I read this and took a bunch of elves killed a gicker.
This is a brag not a shame. ::insert evil face::
Quote from: Dakota on June 25, 2012, 04:35:40 PM
Quote from: chrisdcoulombe on June 25, 2012, 03:55:45 PM
I'm playing a gemmed Ruk and I found a bag of spice stashed, just off the outer circle of Allanak. My character, two vivs an elkros and another guy are all camped on the edge of the salt flats doing spice and drinking. It is before dawn and we are attacked by an elf or elves from distance with arrows. We lose one person in the attack and that character was named after a real life apple. I couldn't help, but say "They shot her, they shot her right through the core."
We would have saved her, but the gate guards didn't let the other guy drag her through the gates, obvious magicker racism. That is when she was shot her through the core.
I read this and took a bunch of elves killed a gicker.
This is a brag not a shame. ::insert evil face::
LOL the shame is that we said they SHOT HER THROUGH THE CORE...and she was named after an apple. LOL. I was just putting it in context.
So was her name Gala or Granny Smith?
I bet it was Red Delicious.
Quote from: Delirium on June 25, 2012, 05:14:34 PM
I bet it was Red Delicious.
And I bet she had red hair.
That is one shame of mine, maybe I already posted it. When I played briefly a long time back, I had a eunuch ranger who had a thing for outcasts, and befriended a gicker-type. She [did a thing of magic rapid travel], to show him this impossible to reach place. In my noobishness, I [didn't get to rapid travel back]. He died there, after trying to eat his mount and drink its blood.
I learned like four times more about magick as my breed pickpocket than I did as my gicker. I'm not even sure how that happened.
Quote from: Kismetic on June 25, 2012, 06:47:42 PM
Quote from: Adj on June 25, 2012, 04:17:20 AM
Teleport
Magicky stuff
I think you're really skirting, or gone over the line with this. May want to edit.
Hey, look, for shame! I edited my post.
My biggest shame actually and its still embarrassing for a lot of reasons.
I once set up an epic RPT with my indie group where I would lead an army of Salarr, Kurac and His Legion to launch a surprise attack on another clan. Spent ages on it and people seemed pretty excited. Staff was well notified with reports, etc. Was going to be epic.
Then I logged in on the day it was to happen.. to find out the other lynch-pin for this plot to happen, Kilaski "Mr. Emo" Salarr died a few hours before. Once he died, Salarr backed out. Once Salarr backed out, Kurac backed out. His Legion backed out as they their was no way in hell they were going to be out alone with my rogue group.
I spent the next few hours IG totally depressed getting contacted by a hoard PCs who hadn't heard their clans backed out as well as having to break the news to some staff that were nice enough to log on to look over the RPT.. Having to tell everyone it was off was so shameful and pathetic.
I wanted to bury my head in the sand, store and never play arm again; it was so embarrassing.
Awww, that's really sad. :(
Stuff like that sucks! Really, Salarr should have just stayed in. Sucks! Not really your fault though.
I cheered when Kilaski died. Simply because he never took my gypo nearly as seriously as he should have.
Yes, that's a shame. :P
Knew about it in advance, and was waiting for it to happen, with popcorn and a big grin on my face.
Quote from: Akaramu on July 05, 2012, 05:05:54 PM
I cheered when Kilaski died. Simply because he never took my gypo nearly as seriously as he should have.
Yes, that's a shame. :P
Knew about it in advance, and was waiting for it to happen, with popcorn and a big grin on my face.
That character must have seriously hated Salarr...
Quote from: Feco on July 05, 2012, 06:17:09 PM
Quote from: Akaramu on July 05, 2012, 05:05:54 PM
I cheered when Kilaski died. Simply because he never took my gypo nearly as seriously as he should have.
Yes, that's a shame. :P
Knew about it in advance, and was waiting for it to happen, with popcorn and a big grin on my face.
That character must have seriously hated Salarr...
For good reason! ;) Had some mischief planned for Salarr but it didn't happen because the time coordination with other players didn't work out. Oh well.
I've accidentally killed more PC's than intentionally.
:-\
So I'm playing a raider out of RSV and this guy chases me (after a brief fight in the sands that I ended up having to flee) Storm and proceeds to lay it down how hes going to utterly destroy me of something along those lines). But now that I'm in RSV and i have some buddies with me I start to mook him a little and tell him to come back outside and we'll settle the
matter.
So my two two buddies and myself are sitting there just northeast of RVS watching and waiting, talking "gang" biz, thinking he'll never come and maybe he's calling for help or something. Then we see him come out and head west and stop a couple rooms away. It looks like he's going to try to shoot us. I pull out a paraine arrow and shoot him. He goes stiff and then I emphatically tell the others DO NOT KILL HIM (at least not right away). I turned mercy on and we move in and try to knock him out. For some stupid reason I decide to trample him and it which kills him and ruins the whole scene. Lesson to be learned: merch on doesn't stop special attacks from killing.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on July 07, 2012, 04:03:40 AM
I've accidentally killed more PC's than intentionally.
:-\
This. I felt so bad when it happened, too.
I picked the wrong sub-guild for my current.
Quote from: Barsook on July 11, 2012, 01:36:52 AM
I picked the wrong sub-guild for my current.
There's always an hefty price to pay for awesome stats ;)
Quote from: Malken on July 11, 2012, 01:38:22 AM
Quote from: Barsook on July 11, 2012, 01:36:52 AM
I picked the wrong sub-guild for my current.
There's always an hefty price to pay for awesome stats ;)
Heh. And it wasn't for the stats for me. Just bad thinking.
Quote from: Barsook on July 11, 2012, 01:36:52 AM
I picked the wrong sub-guild for my current.
Oh man. I always pick the worst possible sub. Really really dumb. :(
Quote from: Schrodingers Cat on July 07, 2012, 11:47:03 AMI turned mercy on and we move in and try to knock him out. For some stupid reason I decide to trample him and it which kills him and ruins the whole scene. Lesson to be learned: merch on doesn't stop special attacks from killing.
I don't know, running a terrified, paralyzed guy over with a giant beetle and turning him into mush seems like a scene in itself.
..I remember that event. I think we kinda underestimated our hitting power.
I forget to unhitch people before I walk "away" from them all the time. I wish I could put it into my prompt.
Here's a shame I recently remembered:
My first, and only dwarf, was stupid. I was a newb and had NO idea what to pick for a focus but I wanted a bad ass dwarf so I make one... that wants to get... married... as her focus. Thinking back, I am shocked staff approved it. Surprisingly easy focus for a dwarf. Especially when you have an even stupider HG to corrupt.
So I find me this HG, and we decide that now we're married. And to consumate we have to sleep together. So we do. Me falling asleep on his massive chest, he holding me like a bay-bay. From then on I called him my husband. A smarter dwarf was disgusted and appalled and murdered me in the Byn sparring room after knocking me out.
Thank you, murderer, thank you very much.
That fiasco led me to never play anything but humans. I'll definitely never play a dwarf again, ever.
/me hangs her head in shame, unable to look any of you in the eye.
Quote from: ShaLeah on July 25, 2012, 07:16:58 AM
So I find me this HG, and we decide that now we're married. And to consumate we have to sleep together. So we do. Me falling asleep on his massive chest, he holding me like a bay-bay. From then on I called him my husband. A smarter dwarf was disgusted and appalled and murdered me in the Byn sparring room after knocking me out.
Am I the only one who thinks this is awesome? ;D
Quote from: Akaramu on July 25, 2012, 08:22:15 AM
Am I the only one who thinks this is awesome? ;D
You're not. Not at all. In fact, I think it's a shame the dwarf didn't move on to 'get married to something not a giant' or something similar to a focus.
Quote from: Patuk on July 25, 2012, 10:16:44 AM
Quote from: Akaramu on July 25, 2012, 08:22:15 AM
Am I the only one who thinks this is awesome? ;D
You're not. Not at all. In fact, I think it's a shame the dwarf didn't move on to 'get married to something not a giant' or something similar to a focus.
Heh, I had her for a total of maybe 24 hours, there was no time to look for another focus. She was barely out of her honeymoon before her Byn mate wacked her. Same day in fact.
I am now ashamed YOU TWO think it was awesome. Thanks for shifting the focus off my self loathing. Don't think I'm not on to you.
It's too late. My first dwarf was going to be a maniac with a focus that would have unintentionally make the world explose, but this is much better, it is.
Thank you ShaLeah. This has made me happy today. :D :D :D
Quote from: jstorrie on July 11, 2012, 08:33:19 PM
Quote from: Schrodingers Cat on July 07, 2012, 11:47:03 AMI turned mercy on and we move in and try to knock him out. For some stupid reason I decide to trample him and it which kills him and ruins the whole scene. Lesson to be learned: merch on doesn't stop special attacks from killing.
I don't know, running a terrified, paralyzed guy over with a giant beetle and turning him into mush seems like a scene in itself.
I'm so jealous. Why don't I ever get the creative deaths like this? Getting run over by a mount, now that's cool. No, for me it's always backstab, backstab, carru, backstab.... :(
If most of your deaths are to backstab you're definitely playing the game right.
I'm a little ashamed whenever I don't know the answer to a veteran's question in helper chat. Sorry, guys! :-[
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on July 29, 2012, 06:49:49 PM
If most of your deaths are to backstab you're definitely playing the game right.
What if all my pk's are backstabs? (both of them)
I'll RP before I PK someone, one of these days.
Sometimes I make characters just to see what crazy shit can happen to them before they die a quick and meaningless death. I feel no shame for that. Should I?
Quote from: John on August 01, 2012, 08:37:32 AM
Sometimes I make characters just to see what crazy shit can happen to them before they die a quick and meaningless death. I feel no shame for that. Should I?
Not in my book. :)
I should only play half-giants for the amount of typos and grammar mistakes I make.
Quote from: kayza on August 01, 2012, 10:37:57 AM
I should only play half-giants for the amount of typos and grammar mistakes I make.
Uh, I have like over 180, atleast, PC's that have been stored/died....over like 7 years or so....maybe 8? Is this shameful?
Quote from: HammerofJericho on August 01, 2012, 10:55:50 AM
Uh, I have like over 180, atleast, PC's that have been stored/died....over like 7 years or so....maybe 8? Is this shameful?
That's sooo many sdescs, descs, and backgrounds. That makes my head spin.
In twelve years I've only had 19 PCs.
Quote from: Ender on August 01, 2012, 11:24:20 AM
Quote from: HammerofJericho on August 01, 2012, 10:55:50 AM
Uh, I have like over 180, atleast, PC's that have been stored/died....over like 7 years or so....maybe 8? Is this shameful?
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That's sooo many sdescs, descs, and backgrounds. That makes my head spin.
In twelve years I've only had 19 PCs.
Well, we can't all be Ender.
Quote from: Ender on August 01, 2012, 11:24:20 AM
Quote from: HammerofJericho on August 01, 2012, 10:55:50 AM
Uh, I have like over 180, atleast, PC's that have been stored/died....over like 7 years or so....maybe 8? Is this shameful?
That's sooo many sdescs, descs, and backgrounds. That makes my head spin.
In twelve years I've only had 19 PCs.
I'm a machine in creating sdesc, mdesc, and sometimes backgrounds....>.>, it's a lot of the enjoyment this game brings me :)
For a moment I thought I had ender beat, 36PCs in 20 years, but on a twelve year span that comes up to 21.6PCs...The shame...
Quote from: X-D on August 01, 2012, 02:08:25 PM
For a moment I thought I had ender beat, 36PCs in 20 years, but on a twelve year span that comes up to 21.6PCs...The shame...
No shame it bud, 8).
Quote from: Ender on August 01, 2012, 05:26:10 PM
Quote from: X-D on August 01, 2012, 02:08:25 PM
For a moment I thought I had ender beat, 36PCs in 20 years, but on a twelve year span that comes up to 21.6PCs...The shame...
No shame it bud, 8).
Yah huh there is. Try harder, X-D.
Back in about 2003, I was once playing an unscrupulous indy ranger (my first, I was attempting to be a real bastard). When I saw someone walk into the apartment that used to be just north of the Bard's Barrel, off of the plaza there, I followed him in and just started shooting him with generic poisoned arrows until he died. The guy did make a good show of it, changing his ldesc and such, but I was so full of adrenaline because it was my first pointless PK (and my last 'pointless' PK at least) his efforts were mostly wasted on me. Sometimes you just gotta break a few eggs though.
24 characters in twelve years. For a second I thought I might be tied with Ender so I ran and checked my list...
Ok, here r my private shames. 1) I once had a rinther whn I was a noob, twink fleed a mugging with no emotes,thn ran out of stamina and proceeded to sleep in meleths circle, afraid of losing wht little coins I had, I woke him EVERY tick to thwart thieves. Ghis is reflected in my account notes :( 2) dont remember what I did but it was horrible twinkery in a temple (maybe snuck into a gicker only area) a staff membee animated th npcs n rocked my world badly , comming fdm hack n slash muds I was convinced this was favoritism n complained, losing my 5irst precious 2 karma and a temo ban. Iv since nvr gotten past 2 karma but staff are mercifuly forgiving,(tht was years ago id like to think ive improved immensely) aaand 3) I had a horrible habit of aeguing with staff despite not having a clue wht I was talking about... 4) I ince added ebonics to a rinthi character, pretty sure thts in my notds too... Fml...
All of this was aprox ten years or more ago, I am also guilty of finding myself obsesed with not being "advanced" at anything... Anything b4 tht is fine but oncd it hits advanced I go crazy if I cant master it... Im workin on tht one :/
I think I'm tied with Ender but I'm not sure. I've been playing for... almost 11 years?
... holy cripes. :o
Quote from: Kebron on August 03, 2012, 02:46:31 PMcomming fdm hack n slash muds I was convinced this was favoritism n complained, losing my 5irst precious 2 karma and a temo ban.
How did you get 2 karma and not realize this isn't a hack & slash mud?
I'm feeling more and more shameful with my PC count.
Damn all your Deliruims, X-D's, and Hot Dancer's! ;)
Quote from: HammerofJericho on August 03, 2012, 03:26:07 PM
I'm feeling more and more shameful with my PC count.
Damn all your Deliruims, X-D's, and Hot Dancer's! ;)
I had 150 in half of your time, if that's any consolation.
Quote from: spicemustflow on August 03, 2012, 03:01:04 PM
Quote from: Kebron on August 03, 2012, 02:46:31 PMcomming fdm hack n slash muds I was convinced this was favoritism n complained, losing my 5irst precious 2 karma and a temo ban.
How did you get 2 karma and not realize this isn't a hack & slash mud?
I played sw muds, they wefe heavy emote/think but skill grinding encouraged. As long as u could codedly do it and emote it you got away with it. No conceen of vnpcs or reality. So good emotes plus longevity, minus rational thought. It didnt help my early interactions involved raidees atacking with no warning so I thought it was okay, not n excuse, it was aweful, in refrospect I laugh though. Sry 4 typos, droid phone
Quote from: Kebron on August 03, 2012, 03:34:13 PM
Quote from: spicemustflow on August 03, 2012, 03:01:04 PM
Quote from: Kebron on August 03, 2012, 02:46:31 PMcomming fdm hack n slash muds I was convinced this was favoritism n complained, losing my 5irst precious 2 karma and a temo ban.
How did you get 2 karma and not realize this isn't a hack & slash mud?
I played sw muds, they wefe heavy emote/think but skill grinding encouraged. As long as u could codedly do it and emote it you got away with it. No conceen of vnpcs or reality. So good emotes plus longevity, minus rational thought. It didnt help my early interactions involved raidees atacking with no warning so I thought it was okay, not n excuse, it was aweful, in refrospect I laugh though. Sry 4 typos, droid phone
I think the question wasn't regarding "How did you get 2 karma if you've never played an RPI". It was more "You had 2 karma, and still thought of this as a hack and slash, no thoughts required MUD?"
I'm mostly interested, because 9 years of playing, and I have 2 karma, and I'm PRETTY good about these things.
*shrug* I was a low teenager with good emotes but no common sense, about sums it up. Good longevity to start with then after I got the karma started messing up. You're talking 10-14 years ago aproximately? mmm maybe more? I'm not positive I'm about to be 27 and I was 12-16 then at best.
But if you've been playing 9 years and only have 2 karma maybe you should request your account notes and find out why? Could be you slipped through the cracks, or could be theres a specific reason behind it.
But again, *shame * thread, do a steller performance and get rewarded for it only to turn around and mess it up royaly because you're a poop headed teenie bopper... Hence the shame :)
ie: were it not for those mess ups and my extended absence I might be playing a mul or something instead of mundanes :( (never played a successful magicker, breaks my heart... also shame)
I started playing in 2002. I have never branched a skill.
---
I once spontaneously gained a psionic talent. To this day I don't know if it was because of a PC, Imm plot, Imm feeling bored, something everyone has a random chance of doing or maybe even me just branching it and you fuckers never told me you can branch psionic abilities.
Anyway my character freaked out. Ran to a GMH and confessed this new ability. Got sent to Red Storm and was abandoned there for 2-3 real life months. I roleplayed exploring psionic abilities, Imm were nice enough to inhabit NPCs briefly for me. But eventually I got bored. I decided fuck it, they've forgotten about me. I'm leaving Red Storm. There was a sandstorm, I didn't care. I figured I'd be able to push my way through it (this was before direction sense appeared as a skill on your skill list). I drowned in the Silt Sea.
Quote from: John on August 07, 2012, 06:47:15 AM
I once spontaneously gained a psionic talent. To this day I don't know if it was because of a PC, Imm plot, Imm feeling bored, something everyone has a random chance of doing or maybe even me just branching it and you fuckers never told me you can branch psionic abilities.
Had that happen to me too! I was FREAKED! I figured it was a bug so I reported it and it was removed. Never came back on the skills list.
Lol, once, twice, ten years a noob
Quote from: Tenua on August 07, 2012, 12:46:24 PM
Quote from: John on August 07, 2012, 06:47:15 AM
I once spontaneously gained a psionic talent. To this day I don't know if it was because of a PC, Imm plot, Imm feeling bored, something everyone has a random chance of doing or maybe even me just branching it and you fuckers never told me you can branch psionic abilities.
Had that happen to me too! I was FREAKED! I figured it was a bug so I reported it and it was removed. Never came back on the skills list.
Wild talents.
My butt eats threads sometimes.
Sorry. :(
Carry on.
Lol! It was an accident?
I wanted to say....that isn't there a Psi ability that everyone has the potential to branch? I think...It just takes some doing.
I dunno. Find out IC.
Quote from: Maso on August 08, 2012, 06:32:07 PM
Lol! It was an accident?
I wanted to say....that isn't there a Psi ability that everyone has the potential to branch? I think...It just takes some doing.
Yeah, the first time I branched the vulcan mind meld I thought the staff had made a mistake, turns out my character wasn't an elf, the point ears were vulcan!
Quote from: Hishn on August 08, 2012, 06:53:26 PM
I dunno. Find out IC.
Doh. The line is so hard to see sometimes!
Quote from: Hishn on August 08, 2012, 06:53:26 PM
I dunno. Find out IC.
Hish, don't make me go all Nyr on you. ;D
Quote from: http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,27455.0.htmlIC, the expel ability should considered as common as contact and barrier. It's a basic component of the Way and has naturally developed and evolved. It isn't some grand new phenomenon that has suddenly expanded the mental abilities of the general populace. It's always been this way. I also think it's safe to say that, in general, it would be considered rude to get thrown out of someone else's mind, as it is a particularly aggressive and unpleasant experience. However, I will leave that up to you folks to decide how your character feels about being shoved out.
Expel help is busted on the website, though (and it's linked from
barrier).
Don't go ruinin' my fun, Britta-filter. You don't know she was talkin' about expel. So neener-neener.
Find out IC brought to you by James Earl Jones.
Quote from: brytta.leofa on August 08, 2012, 11:52:24 PM
Quote from: Hishn on August 08, 2012, 06:53:26 PM
I dunno. Find out IC.
Hish, don't make me go all Nyr on you. ;D
Quote from: http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,27455.0.htmlIC, the expel ability should considered as common as contact and barrier. It's a basic component of the Way and has naturally developed and evolved. It isn't some grand new phenomenon that has suddenly expanded the mental abilities of the general populace. It's always been this way. I also think it's safe to say that, in general, it would be considered rude to get thrown out of someone else's mind, as it is a particularly aggressive and unpleasant experience. However, I will leave that up to you folks to decide how your character feels about being shoved out.
Expel help is busted on the website, though (and it's linked from barrier).
You bastards! Why didn't anyone ever tell me.
I had my character go into hiding because of this psionic ability. And everyone I told about at the time (there were a total of 2 people) didn't feel like informing me that this was a completely standard ability and to not get so freaked out. They didn't feel like telling me I don't have to go to Red Storm in hiding because I wasn't secretly a mindbender.
No. I was in Red Storm for 2 RL months before I killed myself. All because I missed the announcement by Tiernan.
AAARGH!
I've felt so guilty for squandering that plot and simply going into hiding before dying instead of discovering new psionic abilities I might have.
On the upside this means I have branched a skill. I just never knew it :P
Quote from: brytta.leofa on August 08, 2012, 11:52:24 PM
Quote from: Hishn on August 08, 2012, 06:53:26 PM
I dunno. Find out IC.
Hish, don't make me go all Nyr on you. ;D
Quote from: http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,27455.0.htmlIC, the expel ability should considered as common as contact and barrier. It's a basic component of the Way and has naturally developed and evolved. It isn't some grand new phenomenon that has suddenly expanded the mental abilities of the general populace. It's always been this way. I also think it's safe to say that, in general, it would be considered rude to get thrown out of someone else's mind, as it is a particularly aggressive and unpleasant experience. However, I will leave that up to you folks to decide how your character feels about being shoved out.
Expel help is busted on the website, though (and it's linked from barrier).
Fixed Expel.
Quote from: Hishn on August 09, 2012, 01:40:44 AM
Don't go ruinin' my fun, Britta-filter. You don't know she was talkin' about expel. So neener-neener.
Find out IC brought to you by James Earl Jones.
Exactly, it could have been the one that its been fifteen years or so since everyone could secretly use.
Quote from: Hishn on August 09, 2012, 01:40:44 AM
Don't go ruinin' my fun, Britta-filter. You don't know she was talkin' about expel. So neener-neener.
Find out IC brought to you by James Earl Jones.
I was totally talking about expel. So there!
One time, a warrior PC, who was always heavily armored (the least I could be fuckered to do was take off his helmet now and then) was returning from a dangerous hunt, and I noticed his heavy ass breastplate was gone. I could've swore I had it on, and the only thing I could think was that someone had stolen it off his back while he was wearing it!
Needless to say, when he went to his apartment a few days later, it was on the bed. ::)
I did something similar, Kismetic. I noticed my guy wasn't wearing shoes. Of course, I then promptly proceeded to emote about my heavily-armored warrior not wearing shoes, wiggling his toes and bumping them against the bar and avoiding spills 'cuz he didn't want sticky feet.
I don't really mudsex anymore, but several years ago one of my characters was involved with a certain bynner known for her amorous tendancies.
After a tryst in the backroom of Reds Retreat my characte stumbled out to the bar, except I had confused some keywords in my dressing and was wearing everything... Except pants, which were still in my pack.
Walking over to the bar (swaggering) A pair of militia men and a very unfriendly templar took notice of my pantsless situation and a young noble lady begane emoting about how disturbing it was. I didn't notice for a good 10 minutes why everyone was staring and pointing. And when I did, the only thing I could think of to do was wink at the templar and say "Nice huh?"... Things didn't go so well from there, but it was definately entertaining while it lasted. *facepalm*
Quote from: Kebron on August 14, 2012, 06:01:28 PM
Except pants, which were still in my pack.
> someone has forced you to feel drafty
You feel drafty.
Hahhaahha, I soooooooo have a hilarious log to submit regarding absent pants once the year is up.
The first time I ever played in Tuluk, Freil's Rest was (is?) a starting point and I was like "hey that sounds like a cool city not too allanak not too tuluk" so I didn't get the Tuluk tattoos when I went up and I registered as an assassin right out of chargen.
Anytime someone asked where I was from I was like "Freil's Rest" and they were like "Oh, Tuluk?" and I was like "no stupid Freil's rest duh".
say (moseying up to ~bar) Say, where can I get registered as an assassin with the Faithful?
And then an staff-animated Templar came and gave me the assassin stuff and then I got a bunch of stares and I was like "what the hell" and someone told me non-citizens couldn't register as assassins (even though I was actually a citizen and also an idiot) and a PC Lirathan came and gave me a free money to get a thing to make up for the assassin thing.
That character died being framed for the murder of his vivaduan-friend while they were salting. The vivaduan friend got killed by a gith.
Also he ran around in the 'rinth killing elves to take their knife-belts to give to some chick in Allanak and I practiced backstab on all the 'rinth NPCs.
That's the story of my first guild_assassin
On the very first mud I ever played I did the stupidest, most hilarious things, that I still get flack about from my friends :)
A greed-eyed brunette says to a blue-eyed blonde "I grow tired of this world!"
quit
My best friend, who was teaching me the ropes of mudding and the person I said that to, called me, laughing hysterically and explained that when logging off, people just RP that you were napping, or tending to other mundane things. Every so often she still tells me "I grow tired of this world!" when hanging up the phone. I don't think I'll ever live it down.
Quote from: Belimedra on August 17, 2012, 12:14:45 AM
On the very first mud I ever played I did the stupidest, most hilarious things, that I still get flack about from my friends :)
A greed-eyed brunette says to a blue-eyed blonde "I grow tired of this world!"
quit
My best friend, who was teaching me the ropes of mudding and the person I said that to, called me, laughing hysterically and explained that when logging off, people just RP that you were napping, or tending to other mundane things. Every so often she still tells me "I grow tired of this world!" when hanging up the phone. I don't think I'll ever live it down.
OH god that's so funny.
I might have been responsible for people recategorizing all the junk they had in their apartments by the length of their shadows.
Quote from: Dar on August 17, 2012, 01:02:20 AM
I might have been responsible for people recategorizing all the junk they had in their apartments by the length of their shadows.
How... did you do that??
Quote from: Iiyola on August 17, 2012, 04:11:55 AM
Quote from: Dar on August 17, 2012, 01:02:20 AM
I might have been responsible for people recategorizing all the junk they had in their apartments by the length of their shadows.
How... did you do that??
I think that belongs in the bragging thread.
I didn't really 'get' Armageddon for my first few characters, and made PCs mistakenly while not familiar with the documentation...
One of my first PCs thought he was going to preach a different religion, and did so openly.
I think that character may have set a record for the shortest-lived PC ever.
My very first character somehow ended up in some soldiers' barracks, and power emoted how ignorant they were to her thievery of their footlocker. Also very short lived.
So glad I caught on, and am only an imbecilic noob every 2 out of 5 characters now! ;D
I went to the republican thread..... and I liked it.
Playing my first real independent PC after maybe two years of playing.
Real= lasted more than an hour played and with a playable concept
Some years back, when I just began playing, my character participated in one of those battle RPTs, where the text runs so fast you cant figure 'anything' out. When your whole participation involves following the leader of your clan and typing <assist leader> every so often. Well, I was doing just that ... for awhile.
We were clearing out a gith camp. The key of the shame was that somewhere down the road, somehow in my head, my <assist leader> turned into <kill leader> and I did that three times during the RPT. The leader and I assume the rest of the entourage ... never noticed.
I wrote a description while drunk once, wtf I thought, it's just a throw away anyway. Don't think I'll do THAT again.
I once apped a character with the Sdesc "the dreaded, something-something man" trying to sound cool with my dreadlocks. Obviously wasn't thinking too hard on that one.
Staff sent back a rejection: That word doesn't mean what you think it does. :-[
Extra points if his name was Roberts.
Quote from: SpyGuy on September 05, 2012, 03:26:54 PM
I once apped a character with the Sdesc "the dreaded, something-something man" trying to sound cool with my dreadlocks. Obviously wasn't thinking too hard on that one.
Staff sent back a rejection: That word doesn't mean what you think it does. :-[
noun
5.
terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
6.
a person or thing dreaded.
7.
dreads, Informal . dreadlocks.8.
Informal . a person who wears dreadlocks.9.
Archaic . deep awe or reverence.
Quote from: Synthesis on September 28, 2012, 01:06:44 PM
Quote from: SpyGuy on September 05, 2012, 03:26:54 PM
I once apped a character with the Sdesc "the dreaded, something-something man" trying to sound cool with my dreadlocks. Obviously wasn't thinking too hard on that one.
Staff sent back a rejection: That word doesn't mean what you think it does. :-[
noun
5.
terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
6.
a person or thing dreaded.
7.
dreads, Informal . dreadlocks.
8.
Informal . a person who wears dreadlocks.
9.
Archaic . deep awe or reverence.
A short description is intended to speak for itself without requiring a lengthy review of the full character description. If you were to just glance at someone, the sdesc should generally be the "snapshot" of what the mdesc contains. In this case, "dreaded" would be ambiguous. The most prominent definitions (in your example, definitions 1-6) would certainly make it a little confusing. That's why you don't see too many folks out there with ambiguous sdesc words.
You also have to consider the context of the word usage.
I don't think anyone but a noob would be confused by the word 'dreaded' in the context of an sdesc, because everyone else knows that an sdesc only describes physical characteristics. Ergo, when you're conducting your mental inventory of what 'dreaded' means, the non-physical-descriptor meanings of the word are immediately thrown out, which leaves only one possibility: this fellow wears his hair in dreadlocks.
Noobs will be confused by many things, but they will learn. I don't think we should necessarily have to sentence people to using 4 more characters in an already space-limited sdesc just because a noob might be confused about whether this guy is dreaded because he has dreadlocks, or dreaded because everyone fears him.
It really is a silly nitpick. I'm sorry if you were the one who did it, but it's a pretty weak call.
To be fair, to use the term dreaded is more of a slang expression and my shame is that I totally missed reading into it the more common usage of the term.
But to be unfair, yeah man! Dreaded just sounds cool.
I suggested "dreadlocked" instead, as I recall. It was a simple "hey, this word means more than one thing, you may want to specify." We don't necessarily step out there and say "you can't ever use this word," but all descriptions are approved with the reader in mind. You might be worried only about newbies, but people who speak and read English as a second language can face confusion as well.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but some people who speak, read, and write nothing but English all their lives are just bad at it, and with entirely good intentions...well...
Soldier: "Lord templar"
Templar: "Yes?"
Soldier: "a man was stealing some stuff from this women in the bizarre"
Templar: "Well, what did they look like?"
Soldier: "he made me scared, that's all I know"
Templar: "Please send in Corporal Amos; I will need at least four hands for the facepalm I want to do right now."
Yes, we're concerned about newbies, but we are trying to save templars from facepalming themselves into oblivion...in a very small way.
We do the same thing for other ambiguous description words or ambiguous descriptions. In fact, I've even had a discussion with someone over their practice of following a list of synonyms out to a word that meant something different from the original word.
It's not a really big deal or anything, but that's actually inside the thought process behind some of the rejections we make. If you would like to make stronger calls, I heartily encourage you to apply for staff next time we are looking for new staff members. :)
Quote from: Nyr on September 28, 2012, 04:29:07 PMTemplar: "Please send in Corporal Amos; I will need at least four hands for the facepalm I want to do right now."
HAHAHAHAA!
If I believed in signatures, this would go in mine.
there is at least one dreaded NPC in the game. Ok, he's something-dreaded man, but still.
C-C-C-Combo breaker!
When I first stared I was convinced that a certain player was controlling the change of the npc guards. I kept panicing OOC when they kept comnig and going randomly. I was convinced I was about to die.
HAHAHa I have a friend that's trying Arm...He hasn't had much time to play lately but the other week he called frantic because he did not understand why the guy in the bank in Nak kept yelling. Arm is first mud and apparently he had been assuming everyone that talks or walks is a PC.
When I rp and see that I've made a typo I feel instantly ashamed.
In an attempt to hide my shame I will try to flood the screen with lots of emotes and tells out of nowhere to distract the person from realizing I've made a typo, especially if it's during a serious/intimate moment.
I know it does not work, and it only enhances my shame.
Quote from: Evoru on September 30, 2012, 12:40:48 AM
When I rp and see that I've made a typo I feel instantly ashamed.
In an attempt to hide my shame I will try to flood the screen with lots of emotes and tells out of nowhere to distract the person from realizing I've made a typo, especially if it's during a serious/intimate moment.
I know it does not work, and it only enhances my shame.
Ironically I just made a typo two posts back. I shall leave it like that in honor of you! I just shamed myself on the Shame topic. DOUBLE FAIL. :D
Most of my charas have such thick accents, I dont even know where's an intentional typo and when it's unintentional. It's harder to hide in emotes, so I decided not to emote, period.
Quote from: SmashedTregil on September 30, 2012, 12:45:23 PM
Most of my charas have such thick accents, I dont even know where's an intentional typo and when it's unintentional. It's harder to hide in emotes, so I decided not to emote, period.
So you play dwarves?
When I was a wee noob playing my first character, I would sit in the Gaj looking for other weak looking people and lead them into a certain tavern in the Labyrinth, where I would proceed to kill them for their stuff in a crowded room full of people. I think I did this three or four times, and nobody in my clan ever thought to tell me how dumb I was being.
Quote from: HavokBlue on October 27, 2012, 04:21:20 PM
When I was a wee noob playing my first character, I would sit in the Gaj looking for other weak looking people and lead them into a certain tavern in the Labyrinth, where I would proceed to kill them for their stuff in a crowded room full of people. I think I did this three or four times, and nobody in my clan ever thought to tell me how dumb I was being.
Yup. Happened to me.
The stupid part is that it was considered acceptable at the time to lead newbies somewhere and kill them.
Pretty much all my characters are shameful.
[redacted]
Please do not derail threads on the GDB. For instance, this is a thread about things related to the game in a subforum about the game. While the thread is humorous more often than not, we do have rules for a reason, and without rules...why...there would just be mass chaos, posts everywhere about anything!
Back on topic, though:
I didn't know how lantern oil worked, either, until I looked. :(
The shameful things I've ever done very quickly summed up:
One was a really, really horribly stupid death on my second PC. Not one, not two, but three idiotic mistakes in a row.
And a really horrid and not very realistic gossip post when I was playing that Borsail bastard noble. :-\
And some frustrated GDB posts that probably weren't as vague as I had intended for them to be.
Strangely, none of THIS ever appeared in my account notes afaik, not specfically.
The bad account notes I probably DO have (based on staff emails) are based on something I still, and always will insist wasn't my fault at all, and ensuing frustration at staff that resulted from it (that was my fault I suppose). But whatever, life goes on right?
Moderated the thread and banned a poster for continual derailing and baiting of staff. If you have an issue with staff please address it via the request tool.
Quote from: Nyr on November 01, 2012, 08:14:04 AM
Moderated the thread and banned a poster for continual derailing and baiting of staff. If you have an issue with staff please address it via the request tool.
I find it poetic and ironic this took place on the Shame thread :D
One of my biggest MUDing shame moments took place on another game. I had a summons and I wanted to see how strong it was. So in my tired, 3am, off-peek mind, attacking my own summons seemed like a good idea. How better to test it, I thought to myself. It killed me in three rounds. I couldn't even flee. Another clansman found my body (it was non-permdeath) and laughed his butt off at my silliness. I still facepalm when thinking about that.
Sdesc: the dusty, colorful carpet
Description: This carpet is stitched of cotton, with a brilliant display of colors across it's stitching. A ladder-like diamond design snakes it's way up and down the middle of the carpet, the middle of the diamonds a deep blue, the edges of them lined with yellow. Opposite these diamonds are a matching set, the inside of this pattern being red instead. Several small tufts of thread hang from the corners of the carpet's body, dyed black.
Guild: Wind Elemantlist
Sub-guild: non-applicable
Race: (Formerly) Human
Abilities: Absence of the use of the "say" command. Lacks any accent skills. Ability to "fly" and "land" at will. Able to be mounted.
Reasoning: Possessed objects are not readily available whatsoever.
Background: This carpet used to be a human who went by the name of Valin. Valin was a wind elementalist interested in enchanting a carpet to fly at will, allowing him an easy mode of transportation. While trying to enchant the carpet, Valin mistakenly bound his consciousness to the carpet, also enchanting it in the process. The enchantment allowed the carpet the abiltity of flight, and the bounding of his consciousness to the carpet also allowed the basic senses to be accessed by Valin in his current form.
Current focus: Find a way to bound himself back to his body.
first special app in 2009
Quote from: Jingo on October 27, 2012, 05:59:36 PM
Quote from: HavokBlue on October 27, 2012, 04:21:20 PM
When I was a wee noob playing my first character, I would sit in the Gaj looking for other weak looking people and lead them into a certain tavern in the Labyrinth, where I would proceed to kill them for their stuff in a crowded room full of people. I think I did this three or four times, and nobody in my clan ever thought to tell me how dumb I was being.
Yup. Happened to me.
The stupid part is that it was considered acceptable at the time to lead newbies somewhere and kill them.
Wait, so I should stop?
Quote from: Dakota on July 03, 2012, 04:56:04 PM
My biggest shame actually and its still embarrassing for a lot of reasons.
I once set up an epic RPT with my indie group where I would lead an army of Salarr, Kurac and His Legion to launch a surprise attack on another clan. Spent ages on it and people seemed pretty excited. Staff was well notified with reports, etc. Was going to be epic.
Then I logged in on the day it was to happen.. to find out the other lynch-pin for this plot to happen, Kilaski "Mr. Emo" Salarr died a few hours before. Once he died, Salarr backed out. Once Salarr backed out, Kurac backed out. His Legion backed out as they their was no way in hell they were going to be out alone with my rogue group.
I spent the next few hours IG totally depressed getting contacted by a hoard PCs who hadn't heard their clans backed out as well as having to break the news to some staff that were nice enough to log on to look over the RPT.. Having to tell everyone it was off was so shameful and pathetic.
I wanted to bury my head in the sand, store and never play arm again; it was so embarrassing.
Haha, I JUST saw this and the other posts following and had a good laugh. If it makes you feel any better, my greatest shame happened "a few hours before" this, which thankfully I cannot elaborate on.
"Hey, I ought to play in <particular facet> of the game. I like it, and I could stand to learn more about it."
Five hours in, I die to sorcery. With no idea two seconds ago that it was going to happen. And I'm pretty certain it wasn't preservation.
I just stared at the screen, and laughed. I laughed in amusement and disbelief, and I laughed a couple more times through the next day about it.
Anyway I hope this inspires others to try something they generally don't do. With names that they don't plan on using for long-lived characters.
Quote from: Aruven on January 03, 2013, 01:42:25 AM
Quote from: Dakota on July 03, 2012, 04:56:04 PM
My biggest shame actually and its still embarrassing for a lot of reasons.
I once set up an epic RPT with my indie group where I would lead an army of Salarr, Kurac and His Legion to launch a surprise attack on another clan. Spent ages on it and people seemed pretty excited. Staff was well notified with reports, etc. Was going to be epic.
Then I logged in on the day it was to happen.. to find out the other lynch-pin for this plot to happen, Kilaski "Mr. Emo" Salarr died a few hours before. Once he died, Salarr backed out. Once Salarr backed out, Kurac backed out. His Legion backed out as they their was no way in hell they were going to be out alone with my rogue group.
I spent the next few hours IG totally depressed getting contacted by a hoard PCs who hadn't heard their clans backed out as well as having to break the news to some staff that were nice enough to log on to look over the RPT.. Having to tell everyone it was off was so shameful and pathetic.
I wanted to bury my head in the sand, store and never play arm again; it was so embarrassing.
Haha, I JUST saw this and the other posts following and had a good laugh. If it makes you feel any better, my greatest shame happened "a few hours before" this, which thankfully I cannot elaborate on.
Being over the clan at that time, I was really looking foward to that RPT and was rooting you guys on.
What I did IC that no one should know even after a real life year.
Quote from: Rahmi on January 07, 2013, 02:11:26 PM
Quote from: Aruven on January 03, 2013, 01:42:25 AM
Quote from: Dakota on July 03, 2012, 04:56:04 PM
My biggest shame actually and its still embarrassing for a lot of reasons.
I once set up an epic RPT with my indie group where I would lead an army of Salarr, Kurac and His Legion to launch a surprise attack on another clan. Spent ages on it and people seemed pretty excited. Staff was well notified with reports, etc. Was going to be epic.
Then I logged in on the day it was to happen.. to find out the other lynch-pin for this plot to happen, Kilaski "Mr. Emo" Salarr died a few hours before. Once he died, Salarr backed out. Once Salarr backed out, Kurac backed out. His Legion backed out as they their was no way in hell they were going to be out alone with my rogue group.
I spent the next few hours IG totally depressed getting contacted by a hoard PCs who hadn't heard their clans backed out as well as having to break the news to some staff that were nice enough to log on to look over the RPT.. Having to tell everyone it was off was so shameful and pathetic.
I wanted to bury my head in the sand, store and never play arm again; it was so embarrassing.
Haha, I JUST saw this and the other posts following and had a good laugh. If it makes you feel any better, my greatest shame happened "a few hours before" this, which thankfully I cannot elaborate on.
Being over the clan at that time, I was really looking foward to that RPT and was rooting you guys on.
Kaves died somewhere around that time, which was a shameful preventable death itself.
Aparently it was a bad time for that clan.
I once shitmugged a guy. Found his corpse in the Gaj dorms like 10 minutes later.
Quote from: MeTekillot on March 11, 2013, 01:06:27 PM
I once shitmugged a guy. Found his corpse in the Gaj dorms like 10 minutes later.
Anywhere else I would assume that means you held him up in a back alley and shanked him. Here...
For all the talk of shitmugging, I've thankfully never witnessed it.
I killed another fellow because I forgot how you 'disengage'. I felt SO stupid that I quickly ticketed a request with the log of the event that a resurrection was required and I am willing to accept any punishment - forced retirement, removal of karma, whatever - and got responded with 'no'.. I then messaged the player of the character I killed, mentioning it was my stupidity and he should have pressed for resurrection. He was fine with it, his character disappeared and had no hard feelings, and it made me feel even worse.
Still, even today, whenever I remember my idiocy: "Stop... no no stand... no what? Oh 'dis*BEEP*en'.. 'But you're not fighting anyone.'" I shudder. I wasted someone else's well thought-out character just because I have the memory of a large watermelon.
Quote from: evil_erdlu on May 05, 2013, 06:05:03 AM
I killed another fellow because I forgot how you 'disengage'. I felt SO stupid that I quickly ticketed a request with the log of the event that a resurrection was required and I am willing to accept any punishment - forced retirement, removal of karma, whatever - and got responded with 'no'.. I then messaged the player of the character I killed, mentioning it was my stupidity and he should have pressed for resurrection. He was fine with it, his character disappeared and had no hard feelings, and it made me feel even worse.
Still, even today, whenever I remember my idiocy: "Stop... no no stand... no what? Oh 'dis*BEEP*en'.. 'But you're not fighting anyone.'" I shudder. I wasted someone else's well thought-out character just because I have the memory of a large watermelon.
I've been there.
Didn't know about stat/score/skills until my 4th character.
Quote from: Barzalene on May 05, 2013, 02:15:56 PM
Quote from: evil_erdlu on May 05, 2013, 06:05:03 AM
I killed another fellow because I forgot how you 'disengage'. I felt SO stupid that I quickly ticketed a request with the log of the event that a resurrection was required and I am willing to accept any punishment - forced retirement, removal of karma, whatever - and got responded with 'no'.. I then messaged the player of the character I killed, mentioning it was my stupidity and he should have pressed for resurrection. He was fine with it, his character disappeared and had no hard feelings, and it made me feel even worse.
Still, even today, whenever I remember my idiocy: "Stop... no no stand... no what? Oh 'dis*BEEP*en'.. 'But you're not fighting anyone.'" I shudder. I wasted someone else's well thought-out character just because I have the memory of a large watermelon.
I've been there.
Accidentally killed a guy I was picking on in a similar way. Even wished up, and sent a rez request in for the guy, because my guy didn't want to kill him. Just rough him up.
I once saw someone accidentally get killed and five minutes later they were rezzed. How interesting.
Quote from: Jeshin on May 05, 2013, 04:38:07 PM
I once saw someone accidentally get killed and five minutes later they were rezzed. How interesting.
Depends on the staff I guess. We were given a flat no "people kill people on accident in real life" explanation.
It lead to me being exiled, which was a lot of fun.
Quote from: Jeshin on May 05, 2013, 04:38:07 PM
I once saw someone accidentally get killed and five minutes later they were rezzed. How interesting.
They must have been playing favourites.
something something case-by-case basis
My guess is if you kill someone due to user error it's a different thing than a code glitch. But that's just a guess.
Lol user errors.
I've seen players who were rezzed when they obviously didn't deserve it due to 'user errors' and I've seen players who did deserve to be rezzed, due to genuine user errors, who were then denied it.
I lol'd in IRL when the same character the Staff rezzed died 2-3 IRL days later.
Karma. Suck it.
When Atonement used to be up, occasionally I would enter says and emotes in the wrong window.
The dirty grebber so and so nods, sliding his shoulder out of his rifle's strap as he settles down at the communications console.
Quote from: Bogre on May 05, 2013, 09:20:02 PM
When Atonement used to be up, occasionally I would enter says and emotes in the wrong window.
The dirty grebber so and so nods, sliding his shoulder out of his rifle's strap as he settles down at the communications console.
My shame: I really liked atonement before they left the moon. Though that might be just because of the server migration we were experiencing.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on May 05, 2013, 03:39:43 PM
Didn't know about stat/score/skills until my 4th character.
Quote from: Fredd on May 05, 2013, 04:40:46 PM
Quote from: Jeshin on May 05, 2013, 04:38:07 PM
I once saw someone accidentally get killed and five minutes later they were rezzed. How interesting.
Depends on the staff I guess. We were given a flat no "people kill people on accident in real life" explanation.
It lead to me being exiled, which was a lot of fun.
I remember this! I think I was the one that exiled you. Good fun. :)
Quote from: Irulan on May 05, 2013, 10:16:26 PM
Quote from: Fredd on May 05, 2013, 04:40:46 PM
Quote from: Jeshin on May 05, 2013, 04:38:07 PM
I once saw someone accidentally get killed and five minutes later they were rezzed. How interesting.
Depends on the staff I guess. We were given a flat no "people kill people on accident in real life" explanation.
It lead to me being exiled, which was a lot of fun.
I remember this! I think I was the one that exiled you. Good fun. :)
Maybe for the two of you. I'm still very bitter about it all, to be honest :-\
(But I also remember that long PM you sent me shortly after, Irulan, and I thank you for it, it really helped me move on afterward! :) )
Quote from: Malken on May 05, 2013, 10:25:53 PM
Quote from: Irulan on May 05, 2013, 10:16:26 PM
Quote from: Fredd on May 05, 2013, 04:40:46 PM
Quote from: Jeshin on May 05, 2013, 04:38:07 PM
I once saw someone accidentally get killed and five minutes later they were rezzed. How interesting.
Depends on the staff I guess. We were given a flat no "people kill people on accident in real life" explanation.
It lead to me being exiled, which was a lot of fun.
I remember this! I think I was the one that exiled you. Good fun. :)
Maybe for the two of you. I'm still very bitter about it all, to be honest :-\
(But I also remember that long PM you sent me shortly after, Irulan, and I thank you for it, it really helped me move on afterward! :) )
I wish things had worked out differently, I loved that PC you were playing, Malken.
Quote from: Irulan on May 05, 2013, 10:16:26 PM
Quote from: Fredd on May 05, 2013, 04:40:46 PM
Quote from: Jeshin on May 05, 2013, 04:38:07 PM
I once saw someone accidentally get killed and five minutes later they were rezzed. How interesting.
Depends on the staff I guess. We were given a flat no "people kill people on accident in real life" explanation.
It lead to me being exiled, which was a lot of fun.
I remember this! I think I was the one that exiled you. Good fun. :)
Yes, yes you were. One of my favorite plots, hands down :)
Once had to log out in the middle of a violent 'meeting'.
I felt guilty, as if I was trying to avoid character death by logging out.
Thankfully, I found out that I wasn't the target of the 'meeting' so my presence was, for the most part, unimportant >.>
I was taught to play the game by a Mul, with my completely trustworthy red storm city elf assassin/mercenary. I never considered stealing even once and was without fail genuinely nice to everyone.... It must have been hard dragging my linkdead arse about that one time I assumed you could quit in the desert. Thanks whoever taught me, you improved my RP by a lot. And help me get into it. Shorty the Mul <3
I had a very strong character - political strength that is - and I was being dragged into an imm-sponsored plot. Then what did I do?
There was a very very deep ravine (still may be IC) and I decided to look. I didn't realize the next room was a fall. Like a newbie bynner with shit stains on the boots, I fell.
I can feel how pissed the imms were, if it was me, I would be pissed.
Sorry...
Quote from: Adhira on May 05, 2013, 04:59:24 PM
Quote from: Jeshin on May 05, 2013, 04:38:07 PM
I once saw someone accidentally get killed and five minutes later they were rezzed. How interesting.
They must have been playing favourites.
I remember the HRPT when Tuluk liberated Luirs from Allanak, and the multiple rez's for magickers with Isahn (errr and Isahn maybe?). Those and the one other time I have seen a rez have been due to the code not working as it was intended, not due to user error.
My shame is that it took me 15+ years of playing to start sending in character reports.
After blowing up the Tor Academy (it was more like burning it down, it was still standing afterwards, just all charred out), me the leader of the operation was captured and held prisoner and tortured (had my eye poked out, losing all depth perception, so his life as an archer was finished). Somehow my crim flag wore off and I was released. When a staffer saw, he decided that I'd been released accidentally and re-crim flagged me. After running to the Bazaar, buying clothing and buying a kank off some guy he met, he died trying to ride out of the gates. After his martyrdom, the dwarf who was second in command, changed the fate of the Bloodriders forever. Making them into a merchant house, instead of a raider group. This taught me an important lesson: not to trust a dwarf unless they were more dedicated than I was. RIP The Bloodrider Raiders :-(
I recently was making an easy one room climb in a place unprotected by guards, when I slipped and fell on my neck, KOing myself. I was like "Krath Damn this would be a shitty way to die". But I was fine and all my gear was intact when I awoke some time later. Then I immediately wayed a friend of mine to say the situation I was just in, neclecting to see I was on 10 stun. KOing myself a second time in the same spot. :-\
Quote from: Bogre on May 05, 2013, 09:20:02 PM
When Atonement used to be up, occasionally I would enter says and emotes in the wrong window.
The dirty grebber so and so nods, sliding his shoulder out of his rifle's strap as he settles down at the communications console.
This is amazing. You are amazing.
I spent ages figuring out the incantations for the starting spells on my first magicker by trial and error, not realizing they are included in your character approval email.
For the first two years I played, I always thought Toks were a particular vicious species. I just never seemed to find them (even though I heard plenty of stories of people who found others killed by Toks). I was SO curious what these Toks looked like? (in my mind they were some sort of beetles).
Suddenly, I realized... it was slang for... yeah...
Quote from: hyzhenhok on May 21, 2013, 02:59:44 AM
I spent ages figuring out the incantations for the starting spells on my first magicker by trial and error, not realizing they are included in your character approval email.
Wait what? :o
But... I... how...
Quote from: BleakOne on May 21, 2013, 05:33:34 AM
Quote from: hyzhenhok on May 21, 2013, 02:59:44 AM
I spent ages figuring out the incantations for the starting spells on my first magicker by trial and error, not realizing they are included in your character approval email.
Wait what? :o
But... I... how...
Guilty
Quote from: hyzhenhok on May 21, 2013, 02:59:44 AM
I spent ages figuring out the incantations for the starting spells on my first magicker by trial and error, not realizing they are included in your character approval email.
I didn't realize that either, until just now.
Quote from: chrisdcoulombe on May 21, 2013, 02:25:42 PM
Quote from: hyzhenhok on May 21, 2013, 02:59:44 AM
I spent ages figuring out the incantations for the starting spells on my first magicker by trial and error, not realizing they are included in your character approval email.
I didn't realize that either, until just now.
Before character approval emails, you did have to figure them out by yourself.
Sometimes I wanna *edited* some of these *edited* cause they fucking *edited* and have no idea what *edited* is. I mean, really??
Also, sometimes I post shit with an alt account when I think I'm on my main. Stupidass.
/me facepalms.
Having probably the shortest lived character ever (without suicidal intent).
DAMMIT! I lose the shame-fest
First time trying to use a mount - I received the message, "It refuses to move!"
For some reason, I thought 'kick <mount>' would make total sense.
My PC very quickly went from humble Master to tasty Snack D:
First Assassin ever - Still didn't really know how to play. A really nice player realized this and attempted to make me a master assassin.
A shame I killed myself on burn blood, trying to poison my blade for the first time, while him and I both ran around like chickens with our head's cut off, lmfao.
I'll make alts and all that crap, change where I'm from and what I do IRL, but I know people will recognize me instantly anyway, because I play with psychics.
Quote from: The Silence of the Erdlus on May 23, 2013, 06:45:54 PM
I'll make alts and all that crap, change where I'm from and what I do IRL, but I know people will recognize me instantly anyway, because I play with psychics.
Benders, babe, benders.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on May 23, 2013, 02:47:18 AM
First time trying to use a mount - I received the message, "It refuses to move!"
For some reason, I thought 'kick <mount>' would make total sense.
My PC very quickly went from humble Master to tasty Snack D:
First Assassin ever - Still didn't really know how to play. A really nice player realized this and attempted to make me a master assassin.
A shame I killed myself on burn blood, trying to poison my blade for the first time, while him and I both ran around like chickens with our head's cut off, lmfao.
I told a someone that I think was newer at the time (not realizing this before hand) that sometimes a beast just needs a little kick sometimes, meaning they should just role-play kicking it. They they then proceeded to 'kick <mount>' too. Luckily no one died and the mount was saved. I felt like a clod.
It took me at least 2 years to stop thinking of scrabs as an std.
Still do, in a way.
Quote from: Fredd on May 24, 2013, 12:48:28 AM
It took me at least 2 years to stop thinking of scrabs as an std.
Still do, in a way.
I used to think of them as scarab beetles, until I found out that weren't.
Quote from: BleakOne on May 24, 2013, 03:34:34 AM
Quote from: Fredd on May 24, 2013, 12:48:28 AM
It took me at least 2 years to stop thinking of scrabs as an std.
Still do, in a way.
I used to think of them as scarab beetles, until I found out that weren't.
I did, found out they weren't... And still have trouble remembering they aren't. Also, I may or may not have accidentally, RL, called a scarab a scrab once. Or twice. But.. probably not thrice.
Quote from: InsertCleverNameHere on May 24, 2013, 04:01:13 AM
Quote from: BleakOne on May 24, 2013, 03:34:34 AM
Quote from: Fredd on May 24, 2013, 12:48:28 AM
It took me at least 2 years to stop thinking of scrabs as an std.
Still do, in a way.
I used to think of them as scarab beetles, until I found out that weren't.
I did, found out they weren't... And still have trouble remembering they aren't. Also, I may or may not have accidentally, RL, called a scarab a scrab once. Or twice. But.. probably not thrice.
I have, several times, told friends not to sleep with a girl because she'll give them scrabs. Everyone laughs, but only my RL friend that plays arm gets the joke.
Urinated on someone once, after pulling their pants off while they were unconcious.
Completely not a sexual thing. But, I admit to my eternal shame that all of my emotes were meant to make them truly wonder "Where is this headed?".
"Someone slowly undoes your belt."
"Someone pulls your pants down and then off."
"Someone starts undoing his belt."
Etc...etc...
In reality I was a raider at the time, chased them down and knocked them out after giving them the opportunity to peacefully give me their pack and they chose to flee instead. Which is fine, but, expect consequences. ;)
The best part was they made it to within two squares of the city gates and complete safety before they ran out of stamina and I knocked them out.
I just know that poor guy had to be thinking, "Oh no, I'm going to get bum-raped two leagues from the city gates, and all I wanted to do was get some salt."
I was on my second character and first time in a clan, It was Salarr and it had taken a painstaking ig year to reach that point to move up to hunter from recruit. I started in the north and was moved south within the first week or so of joining. I hated the south at the time. Was oocly afraid of going into the city (after my first character was chased through the bazaar by some fella threatening to kill him if he did not go out the gates to mine sid with him.) And hunting alone was forbidden. There were very few people in the clan logging on when I was playing and it felt remote.
But there was one the Zev the breed, I believe, who had helped me stick it out.
On the day of our test to make hunter my pc was splendid. We rode out on our new War beetles, (never had one before and was oocly thrilled and feeling oh so cool.) in a small group, a couple of other recruits along with some cadet-hunters and the sergeant.
I answered the questions asked correctly, rped very well, and codedly achieved all tasks set to my pc to show they had the skill required.
The it all turned ugly.
Far to the east: A scrab
The sergeant calls for the recruits to dismount and ready their arrows. My pc does so.
They call to take aim..
shoot beetle far (recalling something about distance in the doc for archery)
You take aim
You shoot an generic arrow at a war beetle.
your arrow misses the war beetle
The war beetle bite you doing stupefying damage
the recruits scatter after a moment of shock. The cadet hunters scatter if I recall. The sergeant yells 'Run, recruit!'
The war beetle bites you doing vulgar damage
you reel
your vision goes black
thank you for playing arageddon
flee
flee
flee self
Since extended subguilds were added, I literally can't motivate myself to play combat characters with a mundane subguild.
Quote from: Lutagar on May 30, 2013, 10:27:14 AM
Since extended subguilds were added, I literally can't motivate myself to play combat characters with a mundane subguild.
And thus the ONLY reason I really want karma. I spec apped a gicker for the purposes of MAYBE earning some, have yet to hear back on it. It's not that I really want to play gickers, mindbenders or sorcerors, or freaking muls, it's that I want to play a half-giant ranger/slipknife.
Quote from: Fujikoma on May 30, 2013, 10:34:12 AM
Quote from: Lutagar on May 30, 2013, 10:27:14 AM
Since extended subguilds were added, I literally can't motivate myself to play combat characters with a mundane subguild.
And thus the ONLY reason I really want karma. I spec apped a gicker for the purposes of MAYBE earning some, have yet to hear back on it. It's not that I really want to play gickers, mindbenders or sorcerors, or freaking muls, it's that I want to play a half-giant ranger/slipknife.
Be patient and chant goosfwaba.
Quote from: Potaje on May 24, 2013, 10:12:06 AM
I was on my second character and first time in a clan, It was Salarr and it had taken a painstaking ig year to reach that point to move up to hunter from recruit. I started in the north and was moved south within the first week or so of joining. I hated the south at the time. Was oocly afraid of going into the city (after my first character was chased through the bazaar by some fella threatening to kill him if he did not go out the gates to mine sid with him.) And hunting alone was forbidden. There were very few people in the clan logging on when I was playing and it felt remote.
But there was one the Zev the breed, I believe, who had helped me stick it out.
On the day of our test to make hunter my pc was splendid. We rode out on our new War beetles, (never had one before and was oocly thrilled and feeling oh so cool.) in a small group, a couple of other recruits along with some cadet-hunters and the sergeant.
I answered the questions asked correctly, rped very well, and codedly achieved all tasks set to my pc to show they had the skill required.
The it all turned ugly.
Far to the east: A scrab
The sergeant calls for the recruits to dismount and ready their arrows. My pc does so.
They call to take aim..
shoot beetle far (recalling something about distance in the doc for archery)
You take aim
You shoot an generic arrow at a war beetle.
your arrow misses the war beetle
The war beetle bite you doing stupefying damage
the recruits scatter after a moment of shock. The cadet hunters scatter if I recall. The sergeant yells 'Run, recruit!'
The war beetle bites you doing vulgar damage
you reel
your vision goes black
thank you for playing arageddon
flee
flee
flee self
Thats pretty hilarious
Quote from: Potaje on May 24, 2013, 10:12:06 AM
I was on my second character and first time in a clan...
...your vision goes black
thank you for playing arageddon
flee
flee
flee self
There have been many great contributions to this thread, but I think Potaje just won it.
Quote from: Morrolan on May 30, 2013, 12:04:10 PM
Quote from: Potaje on May 24, 2013, 10:12:06 AM
I was on my second character and first time in a clan...
...your vision goes black
thank you for playing arageddon
flee
flee
flee self
There have been many great contributions to this thread, but I think Potaje just won it.
Potaje wins everything from those .gif's he uses as his avatar. This last one is amazing.
He always wins the GDB.
I lost my dignity to the twitchy, slack jawed man.
#BaneofMyExistance
Quote from: bcw81 on May 30, 2013, 12:57:58 PM
I lost my dignity to the twitchy, slack jawed man.
#BaneofMyExistance
If he keeps kicking your ass for no reason, you're doing something terribly wrong.
I wish more people knew this.
RIP all the newbies sapped and backstabbed by 'rinth NPCs
I'm trying to find a contractor to replace me this weekend, ostensibly because I hurt my back eight months ago, and I'd like to relax and have a month off of work, but ultimately, it's because I want to play Arm this weekend.
Oh, man.
I have two weeks off coming up...sadly not vacation, just the plant replacing a ton of 30 year old equipment.
I figure my PC will gain at least 6 days played.
Quote from: X-D on May 30, 2013, 01:43:57 PM
I figure my PC will gain at least 6 days played.
Mothers, hide your daughters!
Quote from: Morrolan on May 30, 2013, 03:56:12 PM
Quote from: X-D on May 30, 2013, 01:43:57 PM
I figure my PC will gain at least 6 days played.
Mothers, hide your daughters!
Ain't got no gun, ain't got no knife
But don't you start a fight
I once missed a major clan rpt involving time travel and alternate timelines, because of a LAN Quake weekend.
Quote from: Furious George on May 30, 2013, 09:55:33 PM
I once missed a major clan rpt involving time travel and alternate timelines, because of a LAN Quake weekend.
wtf is an rpt
Recommended Playing Time = Scheduled Event
Quote from: bcw81 on May 30, 2013, 12:57:58 PM
I lost my dignity to the twitchy, slack jawed man.
#BaneofMyExistance
Ahahahhahahahahaha.....Who hasn't. I swear he's raped my corpse.
Sigh.
Quote from: Fredd on May 30, 2013, 11:05:31 PM
Quote from: bcw81 on May 30, 2013, 12:57:58 PM
I lost my dignity to the twitchy, slack jawed man.
#BaneofMyExistance
Ahahahhahahahahaha.....Who hasn't. I swear he's raped my corpse.
Shit what about the sultry lady?
I tried to wish something semi-ridiculous up to staff to poke fun at one of the animations, and I ended up shouting the wish to everyone in the vicinity instead. I face-palmed, hard.
I walked the wrong way. Mantis head.
Quote from: PriestlySiren on July 29, 2013, 04:31:14 PM
I walked the wrong way. Mantis head.
Yeah. There's multiple ways this can kill you in Arm. You should be glad it happened in an RPT instead of just another random voyage into the wilds, or a step into the silt sea. ;D
Quote from: PriestlySiren on July 29, 2013, 04:31:14 PM
I walked the wrong way. Mantis head.
Almost happened to me too. ;)
Quote from: PriestlySiren on July 29, 2013, 04:31:14 PM
I walked the wrong way. Mantis head.
That works about the same as...
l down
You fall
You fall
You fall
Mantishead
Scroll back...
Oh crap...forgot to type the 'l'
I went AFK for food just before the world echoes started for the HRPT.
Quote from: Sakra on July 31, 2013, 08:25:04 AM
I went AFK for food just before the world echoes started for the HRPT.
[/quote
I went AFK for food during the battle.
I also went afk briefly during the HRPT. :D
I have never consumed breakfast so fast in my life.
I can't even talk about my HRPT flub.
But the shame is intense.
Quote from: LauraMars on August 01, 2013, 10:46:10 AM
I can't even talk about my HRPT flub.
But the shame is intense.
So curious now!
Quote from: LauraMars on August 01, 2013, 10:46:10 AM
I can't even talk about my HRPT flub.
But the shame is intense.
+1
My dumbass character is still alive. I play too safe these days, that's my shame.
I went link-dead shortly before the Kadian wagon fire of the last HRPT. I was link-dead during 30% of the recent HRPT.
Walking right into the Rinth with my first character not realizing what it was. Then getting insta sapped. Stolen from until naked. Wake up. Try to walk away to safety. Found by -another- shady character. Got backstabbed. Welcome to Armageddon!
Quote from: IssacF on August 01, 2013, 11:54:46 PM
Walking right into the Rinth with my first character not realizing what it was. Then getting insta sapped. Stolen from until naked. Wake up. Try to walk away to safety. Found by -another- shady character. Got backstabbed. Welcome to Armageddon!
Not a shame it's just a part of Allanak university program.
Quote from: spicemustflow on August 02, 2013, 01:30:14 AM
Quote from: IssacF on August 01, 2013, 11:54:46 PM
Walking right into the Rinth with my first character not realizing what it was. Then getting insta sapped. Stolen from until naked. Wake up. Try to walk away to safety. Found by -another- shady character. Got backstabbed. Welcome to Armageddon!
Not a shame it's just a part of Allanak university program.
LOL. I felt shame went I read that Rinth is a big no-no unless -you- know what you are doing. Which I clearly didn't. Thankfully my second character was smarter. Never died but I didn't enjoy the concept much. Stored.
I don't get why more people don't play in the 'rinth. It's really fucking awesome, but I've never been able to get the full experience because there was no one to play with... And that was back when I played for 10 hours a day or something crazy.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on August 02, 2013, 07:01:54 PM
I don't get why more people don't play in the 'rinth. It's really fucking awesome, but I've never been able to get the full experience because there was no one to play with... And that was back when I played for 10 hours a day or something crazy.
I like to think that there's some kind of positive reinforcement when it comes to people playing anywhere.
Place X has no people, which causes the people who do go there to feel bored, which ensures they won't return, which ensures there'll be even less people in the future, which ensures any further characters get bored even more..
Quote from: Patuk on August 02, 2013, 07:15:42 PM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on August 02, 2013, 07:01:54 PM
I don't get why more people don't play in the 'rinth. It's really fucking awesome, but I've never been able to get the full experience because there was no one to play with... And that was back when I played for 10 hours a day or something crazy.
I like to think that there's some kind of positive reinforcement when it comes to people playing anywhere.
Place X has no people, which causes the people who do go there to feel bored, which ensures they won't return, which ensures there'll be even less people in the future, which ensures any further characters get bored even more..
An unbreakable vicious cycle. On flip side, I've met Rinthi characters. But they spend most of their time away from the Rinth.
Quote from: IssacF on August 02, 2013, 07:22:20 PM
Quote from: Patuk on August 02, 2013, 07:15:42 PM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on August 02, 2013, 07:01:54 PM
I don't get why more people don't play in the 'rinth. It's really fucking awesome, but I've never been able to get the full experience because there was no one to play with... And that was back when I played for 10 hours a day or something crazy.
I like to think that there's some kind of positive reinforcement when it comes to people playing anywhere.
Place X has no people, which causes the people who do go there to feel bored, which ensures they won't return, which ensures there'll be even less people in the future, which ensures any further characters get bored even more..
An unbreakable vicious cycle. On flip side, I've met Rinthi characters. But they spend most of their time away from the Rinth.
I hate those characters. I've played a couple that would do their 'hunting' southside, and I felt like a jackass for even doing that.
But I don't fault the players who do it. Sometimes it even makes sense ICly.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on August 02, 2013, 07:01:54 PM
I don't get why more people don't play in the 'rinth. It's really fucking awesome, but I've never been able to get the full experience because there was no one to play with... And that was back when I played for 10 hours a day or something crazy.
It's one of those things where it's a fantastic experience if there are cool players there, or a miserable one if everyone at the time is playing BACKSTABGEDDON: drop pack Edition.
I just had a dream that they put a call out for a Byn Sergeant. Dream me was torn between future character and current.
Quote from: HavokBlue on August 02, 2013, 09:40:56 PM
It's one of those things where it's a fantastic experience if there are cool players there, or a miserable one if everyone at the time is playing BACKSTABGEDDON: drop pack Edition.
That is really,
really hot.
5th on TMS
That's shameful. :-\
Quote from: razorback on August 08, 2013, 01:23:28 AM
Ateraan is beating us
That's shameful. :-\
Fixed that for you.
I once sent kudos to a dwarf player expressing my sincere appreciation for a new player putting so much effort into their PC. I went on and on about how I know the game can be hard when you start, but, I really liked seeing someone new to the game give it 110%.
I was sincere and meant every word.
I found out a couple of years later the player of that dwarf had been playing for 10+ years.
Allofmyshame.jpg :(
Allofthemdwarves.jpg :P
(I hold out hope the staff caught that and didn't send it through.)
On a relatively unskilled character, I decided to hunt some gurth. Found a potbellied gurth, but it kept running away, and I didn't want to lose my inix, so I kept having to hitch and unhitch my inix while I tried to chase and kill the gurth. Went something like this:
dismount inix
unhitch inix
hide
sneak
n
*gurth flees south
s
kill inix
mantis head
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I MEANT GURTH, NOT INIX! DAMN...one special app down."
How can you sneak up on anything with a damn 2-ton lizard following you around?
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on December 29, 2013, 12:35:32 AM
How can you sneak up on anything with a damn 2-ton lizard following you around?
Duh. You hide behind the lizard!
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on December 29, 2013, 12:35:32 AM
How can you sneak up on anything with a damn 2-ton lizard following you around?
You leave it a room or two away. But I don't like leaving them alone for long, in case some random passerby is like, "W00t! Free mount!"
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on December 29, 2013, 12:35:32 AM
How can you sneak up on anything with a damn 2-ton lizard following you around?
(http://fireemblemwiki.org/w/images/thumb/6/6c/Portrait_kellam_fe13.png/200px-Portrait_kellam_fe13.png)
Quote from: Heade on December 29, 2013, 02:45:00 PM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on December 29, 2013, 12:35:32 AM
How can you sneak up on anything with a damn 2-ton lizard following you around?
You leave it a room or two away. But I don't like leaving them alone for long, in case some random passerby is like, "W00t! Free mount!"
You can see why this might be unrealistic as all fuck though, right? Get a mount who can sneak, or do it on foot.
I don't know. Watching a two ton lizard in the distance could be pretty distracting.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on December 29, 2013, 04:50:11 PM
You can see why this might be unrealistic as all fuck though, right? Get a mount who can sneak, or do it on foot.
Why are you saying this? What exactly do you mean?
A hunter leaves his mount a league away and then continues on foot, sneaking in closer to his prey. Where is the lack of realism?
Quote from: Dar on December 29, 2013, 10:50:46 PM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on December 29, 2013, 04:50:11 PM
You can see why this might be unrealistic as all fuck though, right? Get a mount who can sneak, or do it on foot.
Why are you saying this? What exactly do you mean?
A hunter leaves his mount a league away and then continues on foot, sneaking in closer to his prey. Where is the lack of realism?
The fact that many -don't-. Many just sneak, with the mount still hitched. So you might see just the mount walking around the wilderness, but no rider (in sight)
He obviously sent his inix in as a decoy.
Didn't think Armageddon was the game for me. Figured I wasn't going to play it anymore.
One year later, my new character gets approved and I realize I forgot how to emote. Spent the next few days ashamed to log on and reading the docs.
Glad to see you back, Evoru!
I have to relearn the emoting system every time I come back. I've had a tendency to take a year off at a time over the past 15 years or so.
On my come back character 3 years ago I saw:
Reboot by Morgenes in 15 minutes.
And was knee deep in character changing emotional shit. So I stay on, right? I mean, I got fifteen minutes right? Wrong. About two minutes in I get...
Staff sends: Waiting on you Shal.
>who
There are 0 ...
Doh!
Nyr once investigated me because he thought I deliberately committed suicide on my PC.
I told him that I am just absolutely retarded and he accepted it at face value.
Quote from: Zoan on March 23, 2014, 08:29:08 PM
Nyr once investigated me because he thought I deliberately committed suicide on my PC.
I told him that I am just absolutely retarded and he accepted it at face value.
This didn't involve 8 gith in a confined area, did it?
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on March 23, 2014, 11:24:39 PM
Quote from: Zoan on March 23, 2014, 08:29:08 PM
Nyr once investigated me because he thought I deliberately committed suicide on my PC.
I told him that I am just absolutely retarded and he accepted it at face value.
This didn't involve 8 gith in a confined area, did it?
Obeying the will of your Lady Templar is not retarded, it is GLORIOUS.
Quote from: Zoan on March 24, 2014, 07:10:26 AM
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on March 23, 2014, 11:24:39 PM
Quote from: Zoan on March 23, 2014, 08:29:08 PM
Nyr once investigated me because he thought I deliberately committed suicide on my PC.
I told him that I am just absolutely retarded and he accepted it at face value.
This didn't involve 8 gith in a confined area, did it?
Obeying the will of your Lady Templar is not retarded, it is GLORIOUS.
Your Lady Templar just took a spear to the head; maybe she's changed her mind.
(Kids! When half the combat strength of your group is in NPCs, everyone needs to follow the same person the NPCs are following. Otherwise: such unexpectedly alone. So gith. Very combat penalty. Wow.)
To suggest that is treason: Templars are always perfectly sound of mind; they're the children of GOD.
Quote from: Zoan on March 23, 2014, 08:29:08 PM
Nyr once investigated me because he thought I deliberately committed suicide on my PC.
I told him that I am just absolutely retarded and he accepted it at face value.
The staff is pretty accepting of the idea that most of us are retarded. They've seen it all over the years.
Yeah... I walked one of my earliest characters into the silt sea, and it wasn't intentional... or caused by a storm.
So... uh... yeah. :-[
No i didn't walk my vivaduan into a pit full of gith just because he had low wisdom i walked him into a pit because I have low wisdom
I was once walking the north road from Allanak when BOOM!
"Wait where's the road WHAT THE FUCK I'M FALLING"
"There's a gith here. He pokes your face, you die."
Me still: Wait I'm still on the part of WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?
And then there was that deep pit in the wastes I fell in... and then another hole... and another...
I've fallen in a lot of holes.
I've had a nearly fully branched whiran die from falling before. Shame is me.
I'm never badass as I plan to be.
I swear to god, I play Tablelands PCs more than absolutely anything. I have big honking red highlights for anything vaguely suggesting there is a pit nearby, due to...experience.
I STILL TO THIS DAY FALL IN THE GODDAMN HOLES.
I once got a bad account note for asking to store a character, and to make a new one just like them with the same ingame friend and everything. I think it got removed once I informed staff that I was being an idiot, and an honest one at that.
Quote from: long live miley cyrus on April 08, 2014, 02:32:48 PM
I once got a bad account note for asking to store a character, and to make a new one just like them with the same ingame friend and everything. I think it got removed once I informed staff that I was being an idiot, and an honest one at that.
I will never let Tortal forget that she made her dead char's cousin. Joined the Byn, had all the same friends and everything. Haha Torty!
I've been asked about the relationship with one long ass lived char through various characters, and I've given a heads up when I haven't been able to avoid certain interactions too. I have also OOC'ly done something out of character for the character when I've been presented with it.
You have NO idea how many people make chars to interact with old friends/love interests. Staff has gotten better at knowing when it's twink. Hell, it happens a lot when you prefer one place and one place only.
I still can't get over the char I stored about a year ago. Storage privilege should be taken away from me.
A lot of my characters are either pretty or ruggedly handsome. I try to include some unattractive features on a lot of them, and my Rinthers are pretty realistic, but my only merchant had basically no flaws physically. I'm eagerly looking for the opportunity to horribly scar them.
Quote from: Asche on April 16, 2014, 11:58:23 AM
A lot of my characters are either pretty or ruggedly handsome. I try to include some unattractive features on a lot of them, and my Rinthers are pretty realistic, but my only merchant had basically no flaws physically. I'm eagerly looking for the opportunity to horribly scar them.
Ever try making pretty men and ruggedly handsome femmes? It's great fun.
Also, line up for the scars, I'm sure we can work something out.
So I was extremely lucky to land a role....and the first thing I do is determinedly ask an NPC cook for soup....that doesn't do soup.
I'm stood there in the presence of a storyteller, or someone else animating the cook, trying out all sorts of syntax to do with soup while she vehemently denies me. (I didn't know the syntax for listing foods!).
I might go hide in a corner now.
Then, your added shame when you read this post and realize the NPC was not animated, after all, and it was just a script. You were sweating bullets for nothing!
ask cook help
ask cook FOOD (ask cook STEW, ask cook BREAD, ask cook STEAK or whatever)
My shame, when I was a new player to Arm, probably my third character in about 2010, was leaving Allanak after my lover had ditched me for someone else. And following the north road.
We all know how that ends.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEE"!
You fall...
I still have problems with cooks NPC's myself.
Quote from: FantasyWriter on April 03, 2014, 08:59:35 AM
I've had a nearly fully branched whiran die from falling before. Shame is me.
That makes me laugh. lots.
Quote from: Barsook on May 13, 2014, 08:21:22 AM
I still have problems with cooks NPC's myself.
Yeah I always have to remember again after a while away from a clan.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on May 13, 2014, 12:14:31 PM
Quote from: Barsook on May 13, 2014, 08:21:22 AM
I still have problems with cooks NPC's myself.
Yeah I always have to remember again after a while away from a clan.
So help me Tek I -always- default to 'ask cook stew'. Every. Single. Time.
Quote from: Saellyn on May 13, 2014, 06:15:58 AM
ask cook help
ask cook FOOD (ask cook STEW, ask cook BREAD, ask cook STEAK or whatever)
My shame, when I was a new player to Arm, probably my third character in about 2010, was leaving Allanak after my lover had ditched me for someone else. And following the north road.
We all know how that ends.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEE"!
You fall...
Yet another reason why playing the Tablelands rocks. All the boots from the folks that follow the North Road. Most of the time the gear is poor, but now and again there is something nice. I have some humorous stories, but..no sharing IC info.
*Sigh* Still two more weeks before I can play.
Quote from: Norcal on May 13, 2014, 12:44:05 PM
Quote from: Saellyn on May 13, 2014, 06:15:58 AM
ask cook help
ask cook FOOD (ask cook STEW, ask cook BREAD, ask cook STEAK or whatever)
My shame, when I was a new player to Arm, probably my third character in about 2010, was leaving Allanak after my lover had ditched me for someone else. And following the north road.
We all know how that ends.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEE"!
You fall...
Yet another reason why playing the Tablelands rocks. All the boots from the folks that follow the North Road. Most of the time the gear is poor, but now and again there is something nice. I have some humorous stories, but..no sharing IC info.
*Sigh* Still two more weeks before I can play.
It must be nice to be able to play a tablelands PC who can leave the tablelands and interact with more than 3 people.
;_;
Using sexist insults out of laziness. Usually a sign of my waning interest in my RP.
Quote from: KankWhisperer on September 01, 2014, 07:58:37 PM
Weekly reports are the TPS reports of the game.
Once done with my TPS reports I lack the will to do another batch for bios.
Italis once opened a request for me that basically was like:
(http://i.imgur.com/J9HXG18.jpg)
So last character I just had was doing fairly well as a ranger. Killing things, skinning things and earning a whole load of 'sids. So one day I decide to hunt a gizhat. It was fighting me a lot, but I was beating it pretty well. I was in poor condition and it was in near death condition. Until suddenly, it charged at me and knocked me in some direction. I got up, and then all the sudden this fucking bahamet comes charging in like the bahamet it is and decides to one-hit me. *BEEP* *mantis head*
If you're fighting anything and you're in "poor" condition, I gotta say son, you are not doing well. You are surviving.
Quote from: MeTekillot on September 01, 2014, 11:45:08 PM
If you're fighting anything and you're in "poor" condition, I gotta say son, you are not doing well. You are surviving.
I always run at 75% health. It keeps me breathing.
I always run when I see "a kryl that can spit acid has arrived from nearby" because only the most shameless of twinks actually have passable blind-fighting to kill a kryl.
Blind fighting is an intriguing skill to me.
Never branched it.
What's twinky about practising blind fighting, ie night sparring. I've never understood why it should be bad. I should be shamed?
I REALLY want to make the blind swordsman now.
Quote from: solera on September 02, 2014, 05:15:08 AM
What's twinky about practising blind fighting, ie night sparring. I've never understood why it should be bad. I should be shamed?
Nothing so long as it is done in a realistic way for IC reasons.
Some people think purposefully training skills, for any reason, is twinking.
People train for combat using techniques that hinder them all the time IRL.
(training weights, blindfolding, restriction bands, disabling one arm or the other, etc)
Using the code to hinder yourself in order to get better at something is not twinking.
Taking advantage of code loopholes or abusing the code in an unrealistic or OOC way is twinking.
I always feel like it gives new players the wrong image of our playerbase and "twinking" rules when people brag about having long lived PCs who never use skills.
Some roles don't need coded skills beyond the basics, and that's cool.
Not using skills in your skill list for OOC bragging rights is not cool, and--I like to believe--not the reason people are usually talking about this sort of thing.
Quote from: FantasyWriter on September 02, 2014, 11:50:02 AM
I always feel like it gives new players the wrong image of our playerbase and "twinking" rules when people brag about having long lived PCs who never use skills.
Everyone uses the Way, so anyone that says their PC used no skills is just fibbing ;)
Quote from: Gimfalisette on September 02, 2014, 12:13:20 PM
Quote from: FantasyWriter on September 02, 2014, 11:50:02 AM
I always feel like it gives new players the wrong image of our playerbase and "twinking" rules when people brag about having long lived PCs who never use skills.
Everyone uses the Way, so anyone that says their PC used no skills is just fibbing ;)
I've had two characters that never used contact because they were self-conscious about how bad they were at it. Like a person that doesn't talk because they were self-conscious about their lisp.
Quote from: Narf on September 02, 2014, 12:23:01 PM
I've had two characters that never used contact because they were self-conscious about how bad they were at it. Like a person that doesn't talk because they were self-conscious about their lisp.
You just gotta be the exception, don't you, Narf. Sheesh.
Quote from: Gimfalisette on September 02, 2014, 12:25:08 PM
Quote from: Narf on September 02, 2014, 12:23:01 PM
I've had two characters that never used contact because they were self-conscious about how bad they were at it. Like a person that doesn't talk because they were self-conscious about their lisp.
You just gotta be the exception, don't you, Narf. Sheesh.
I have a compulsive disorder that forces me to respond to all generalizations with a specific exception that does nothing to add to the conversation.
It's a problem, I'm getting help.
Fun factoid. You don't have to be unable to see to train blind fighting.
Quote from: BleakOne on September 02, 2014, 08:49:45 PM
Fun factoid. You don't have to be unable to see to train blind fighting.
True dat.
Search cripple.
You find a blind man and pick him up.
Drop blind man.
Hit blind man.
i have, on at least two or three separate occasions, nosave arrested myself and then walked into allanak forgetting i had spice in my inventory. Yeah. that ended well.
I went years thinking that the infamous mantis head that you saw when you died was different than the mantis head you saw upon logging in. It just never occurred to me that when you died you'd be taken back to the opening screen (admittedly this was because I would get bored of a character and store, never actually die).
Quote from: Evoru on October 11, 2014, 01:57:46 AM
I went years thinking that the infamous mantis head that you saw when you died was different than the mantis head you saw upon logging in. It just never occurred to me that when you died you'd be taken back to the opening screen (admittedly this was because I would get bored of a character and store, never actually die).
I'd like to see a large ascii frowny face in the event of a PC's demise.
I'd like to see a long page of nothingness for about 30 seconds, and then log-in screen.
Also, I'm changing my *Beep* to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkURMmojRo).
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on October 11, 2014, 05:55:41 PM
I'd like to see a long page of nothingness for about 30 seconds, and then log-in screen.
Also, I'm changing my *Beep* to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkURMmojRo).
How about this? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjYeMQLatc4)
Quote from: adriannetwork on October 16, 2014, 07:23:08 AM
So I make a request for my account notes and at the same time to be 'fun' did the following:
QuoteRequest Declined:
Adriannetwork,
It's not appropriate to send kudos to yourself. Please don't do this.
Your Player Kudos request has been resolved.
Talia
Storyteller
Armageddon Staff
It was then added it to my account notes. DAMNIT!
That backfired. hahaha
I actually laughed at this. Loudly. Loudly enough that my sleeping cat fled the room.
Quote from: adriannetwork on October 16, 2014, 07:23:08 AM
So I make a request for my account notes and at the same time to be 'fun' did the following:
QuoteRequest Declined:
Adriannetwork,
It's not appropriate to send kudos to yourself. Please don't do this.
Your Player Kudos request has been resolved.
Talia
Storyteller
Armageddon Staff
It was then added it to my account notes. DAMNIT!
That backfired. hahaha
OMG, I loved this, LOVED it, then I got mad at myself for not trying it first.
Quote from: adriannetwork on October 16, 2014, 07:23:08 AM
It was then added it to my account notes. DAMNIT!
That backfired. hahaha
Just to clarify: It wasn't actually added to your account notes, I simply linked the requests because they came in at the same time.
But yeah, players, please don't do this :)
You should probably file a player complaint against yourself, just to get some closure. ;)
When I was a newb I held up the Gaj with a crossbow in my first hour of play, and when they hauled me to the arena and executed me in front of the whole game, I repopped and started acting like I just got lucky and ran away, and then a staffer sent to me saying I was a different person now.
I still laugh about it to this day, but it's a shamed laugh.
Quote from: LauraMars on November 04, 2014, 04:23:39 PM
When I was a newb I held up the Gaj with a crossbow in my first hour of play, and when they hauled me to the arena and executed me in front of the whole game, I repopped and started acting like I just got lucky and ran away, and then a staffer sent to me saying I was a different person now.
I still laugh about it to this day, but it's a shamed laugh.
Man, buying a crossbow in Allanak, now THAT is some shameful behavior. That must have been like.. 3/4 of your n00b start coins right there, no wonder you had to immediately turn to a life of crime :(
I hope you have logs of that Laura because it sounds hilarious.
Man I was such a wuss as a newbie.
Sounds like that one log in submissions.
Where one of the would-be victims stood up, drew two maces, attacked the guy, chased him into the desert, asked the Gemmed for help, and then had him thrown in the Arena?
That wasn't the one, Barsook, though I do have logs I could theoretically submit when the Original Submissions tool is fixed. Though, remember that it was pretty shameful. The funniest part was walking up to the templar that executed me and buying a merchant's token from him a couple days later. He gave my character a hard look.
hahahah hahaha :-[
THALKEN TOR. I always thought it was disrespectful, what they did with your head.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on November 04, 2014, 05:13:21 PM
THALKEN TOR. I always thought it was disrespectful, what they did with your head.
Thanks, Brytta! But to be fair, the things Thalken planned to do with Malenthis's head would have been pretty disrespectful too.
I can't still figure out anything about combat. I've never been good at twitch games, I have the reflexes of a drugged panda being asked for sex and I easily panic.
- Once I had a Rukkian who was pretty well-branched and not so alien to fighting. Still, whenever I saw a spider in the desert I spammed 'flee' and ran away, even though the poor things weren't even able to touch me. (arachnophobia)
- I killed a clansmate because I panicked when he blacked out during sparring. I typed 'stand' and 'stop' instead of 'flee' or 'disengage' until my character punched the poor lad one last time.
- I always forget about how area-effect spells work and take on my mounts alongside my actual targets. I usually remember to dismount before charging in, I just forget to unhitch them.
All I'm going to say is mudsex... staff know the rest, I'm sure.
EDIT: It's been more than a year, so perhaps my worst transgression I've been a part of was when my Tuluki inked warrior knowingly kanked a gemmed breed. I was a very new player, and pursued quite stubbornly on top of that, I had NO idea. lmao
You know it's bad when your join a clan request comes back as this:-
QuoteRequest Granted:
[Redacted]
Well, OK, but stop dying, dude! :P
Your Join a Clan Forum request has been resolved.
Talia
Storyteller
Armageddon Staff
I used to fight gortoks barehanded back in 2009.
Quote from: bcw81 on December 14, 2014, 03:59:25 AM
Quote from: MeTekillot on December 14, 2014, 12:19:14 AM
I used to fight gortoks barehanded back in 2009.
twink
Naw, he was a dwarf with the focus of becoming a gortok. It's not his fault they're all aggro.
Favorite thread 10/10 must read.
One of my first characters was something like a jewelry crafter subguild, and some main guild that didn't have skin. I think she was probably a breed, too.
I kept finding piles of bones outside the walls, but I couldn't do anything with them because I couldn't separate them. I randomly ran into another character and we started talking. I mentioned my dilemma, and how I really wanted to try my skills on some bones. She happened to have some and let me take a look at a couple different kinds. I was amazed when I could potentially craft something out of said bones, so I did what any normal person would do and promptly grabbed as many as I could and ran off. She pursued. We ended up running around the entire city several times over, until she either gave up or I found somewhere to hide. And then I promptly shattered all the bones when I tried to make something out of them.
I remember being so scared she was going to find me, thinking she would kill me...all over a couple pieces of bone. Pretty sure my character died a couple hours after the ordeal.
Almost all of my early character are abysmally shameful. I'd really not like to dwell on them. Many bad account notes were had :( Thankfully (at least I hope so..) I've improved.
Gaj beetle is to strong!
I was saying IC that vNPC gith were attacking my vNPC tribe, and was trying to rally support for it via PC contenders in the field (Arms from Salarr, etc.). Staff told me that the gith would be able to take out my tribe, but gave me the option to, IC'ly, say I was lying. I chose to store, saying the gith took out my tribe.
All in all, it was an experience that really helped me understand the world as a player, but I still miss that character. (I stored.)
Quote from: yousuff on December 14, 2014, 08:15:36 AM
Almost all of my early character are abysmally shameful.
Yup, me too. Can barely call them characters at all...
I don't know that I've improved as much as I've just gotten better at hiding my newbishness, though.
I probably played at least a dozen PCs before I ever "got" Armageddon. Wouldn't trade it for any other game though.
The ups are definitely worth the downs to me.
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.
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. :-X 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.
Quote from: Armaddict on December 14, 2014, 02:33:17 PM
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.
Once, I tried to introduce Zalanthas to a food inspired by those fillets of blowfish (not sure of the spelling, Fugu?).
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.
I wonder how many children Gage Gritshaw had.
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.
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."
Somehow quoted myself instead of editing my last post. Double shame.
Quote from: Beethoven on March 31, 2015, 11:08:09 AM
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."
Quote from: FantasyWriter on March 28, 2015, 07:23:01 PM
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.
Quote from: Desertman on March 31, 2015, 11:14:29 AM
Quote from: FantasyWriter on March 28, 2015, 07:23:01 PM
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.
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.