Mine:
So I got a new character concept. Was a mage concept that I was interested in playing, a type I'd never touched before. I got the karma for it and submited a concept. Waited..waited..Now..usualy it's what? A day or so for your app. to be cleared or rejected. 3 days after I submited(longest I've had to wait) I logged back into my game account to check something and, low and behold, my character is there. O.o. Never having recived an email saying that he was apporved, I had no idea how to use his spells, but that's okay, I can still run him and just wait. I thought perhapse that my email account was bouncing any mails from the MUD, so I sent in another message giving an alternate address and then log back in to have some fun....
Giving the character's background, he goes out to do his stuff and make a living...the 2 hour mark passes and the first thing that comes along kills him...>.<
Now I've got to figure something else out to send in...something non-mage, I'm thinking...
So that's mine, what's yours?
It's a conspiracy!
I had a character approved within the last week and got no e-mail from MUD either. Though I'm not bouncing because I verified that (got them to send me another e-mail to make sure).
My worst death was a 20-day warrior being spam-bashed by a carru until he had no stun left. Heh. Bashed me three times before the 'kill carru' lag wore off. Lesson? Don't fucking attack carru! I haven't since then. Yay.
Mine was a 40-day something or another warrior. In a battle a lightning magicker fried him in 1.5 seconds with spam spells.
Quote from: "Vessol"Mine was a 40-day something or another warrior. In a battle a lightning magicker fried him in 1.5 seconds with spam spells.
I would call that... a very clever magicker. :twisted:
j/k
Without going too IC...
PKilled for fairly pathetic reasons and with no emoting involved :(
I don't think I like where this thread is heading... :(
Let's not gripe about how some other lame player killed our awesome character in a lame way. Nothing good will come of it.
P.S. To the OP, I sympathize with your loss. I think the only thing that could be more tragic than the loss of a long-lived character is the loss of a few-hour old one who's creation you put so much thought and effort into.
Yes. I completely agree. New pc's you just feel like "Hey, I wan't done here!"
My space bar got stuck and I couldn't sheathe my weapon when trying to get away from some nasties.
Also finding a character dead after a power outage and not know what happened.Was in a fairly public area too.
Amish Overlord 8)
Big time lagout from the game, stranded in the Silt Sea.
You are famished.
You think: Ugh.
Yeah, my last death in fact was a computer crash and then had to leave...I thought I'd gotten myself somewhere safe, but apparently I was wrong. If I could access my email right now (sigh) I'd send an email asking how I died...not that it'll make any difference.
I have to say NPCs. Dying to NPCs is the most unsatisifying way to die, and really makes you consider why you even play the game in the first place.
I've had ALL but 2 characters that I loved die to NPCs.
One of my deaths was a favored desert elf that I put some thought into. This was back when you might run into three halflings along the North Road and it would be the norm. Well, a spear flew in from the north and the code said it "hit the ground" and I didn't take any damage to hp, stun, or anything like that. I did, however, receive the message that I was poisoned. So said D-elf ran back home and died just as he got there.
Logging in sleepy, just because I thought that character in my position should be playing regulary.
Doing something that I thought was IC for my character to do.
Ending up in torture chamber with Templar going OOC during torture to correct the way I emote.
Bribing and offering more just to be killed anyways.
Anonymous note to my account stating that I play too stupid and uncharacteristic for my ex-favorite clan to end the story.
...great character, had alot of things going for him RP wise. And I had to assist a half-giant fighting a bahamet and take it's aggro. :(
First character, 15+ days played and rocking, killed due to trying to steal and not knowing how the crime code and nosave worked.
My favorite character ever, who had a long and colorful life, as well as a ton of interesting stuff ahead of her...
Someone wanted to spar in an apartment. The character was something of a push over, so she complied. Animated NPC apartment guard rolls up to bitch us out, then leaves.
A few rl days later, I log in and am tottling out of the apartment. Guess who is crimcoded? (hint: it's me) The very same NPC that bitched us out uber kills my poor, currently unarmed warrior with a pair of club hits to the head.
I was blindingly mad at the game at this point. I, as mansa said, questioned why I played. I looked into other RPI muds. I created a twink hunter to blow off steam. I still think the death was bullshit, but now that I'm no longer angry, I understand why the res policy is as strict as it is.
Every single raider pc I ever made who ended up dying long before I was done with them, and before ever getting to raid anyone, ever. EVER!
dying to a keg full of cleaning solution.
back then, the infamous kegs didn't have the sdesc "is here giving
off noxious fumes"
and they were filled with a brown liquid, looking pretty close to ale.
*bangs head against keyboard
passing out at the keyboard and letting a seasoned magicker wither away
from dehydration as his comrades kept emoting pouring water down
his throat.
Lost a 50 day bard in a ridiculous, self-inflicted scene.
Never, ever, log on piss-drunk, depressed and bipolar.
This wasn't mine, but I was in the vicinity when some jerk went into a room in a tavern and killed a linkdead PC, then ran. As I recall, owner of said PC was pretty upset.
Quote from: "Cuusardo"This wasn't mine, but I was in the vicinity when some jerk went into a room in a tavern and killed a linkdead PC, then ran. As I recall, owner of said PC was pretty upset.
Hmmm yeah. I recall something similar happened to a friend of a cousin's aunt's grandmother's pet dog's hump toy's PC.
Twink killage is always a blasphemy in the realm of Armageddon RP.
Quote from: "Cuusardo"This wasn't mine, but I was in the vicinity when some jerk went into a room in a tavern and killed a linkdead PC, then ran. As I recall, owner of said PC was pretty upset.
Thus soldiers in bars being good.
First character - 3 RL month warrior, didn't realize maces took off stun - dead.
Second character- several days behind the keyboard ranger, got attacked by a scrab with no weapons out, game went down, but stayed up and the scrab killed me while I couldn't get onto the server.
9ish day ranger, almost made it to Sarge in a clan - didn't realize a steeply slanted slope meant - this is the edge of the cliff that will require decent climb.
Picking up a pack by the gates, not realizing that pack was full of spice and walking one square over before checking the pack's contents where I was promptly spam killed by the gate guards.
Over 20 days played on a ranger- ended up paralyzed, some noble came along and I had to watch for an RL hour how they decided whether to kill the character or not being able to do nothing but thinks. THAT pissed me off bad, since it looked like some shitty noble killing another player just because she decided she felt like it at that point, totally random and useless and thoughtless.
Then there was a newbie that I brought intot he game that got twink-killed before he even left the quit room for the first time - he told me months alter so I couldn't even mail the imms or let him log on again (with the newbie resurecction) because he didn't remember any details.
Branched d-elf warrior with all kinds of cool plots going on paralyzed and killed by a sorc out of the blue.
Quote from: "Kronibas"dying to a keg full of cleaning solution.
back then, the infamous kegs didn't have the sdesc "is here giving
off noxious fumes"
and they were filled with a brown liquid, looking pretty close to ale.
Ditto. Had a beast of a warrior - survived tumor rats, sewer horrors, sandstorms, dehydration, falling off cliffs, and raiders. All to die by vomiting up the contents of her stomach for an agonizing 10 minutes. Classic.
I've had a two that were sickening. And not because they died.
Both made me loose long lived chars. Both involved patheticly rp'd vibrancy.
I've lost chars I loved way more, but with players who put in a wicked ending. The loss of the char wasn't bad at all then, it was actually freaking amazing and fun and why I play still.
The only times I've been really dissapointed were times trusting people with power. Some Staff and Players of defiler might who have all the power in the world seem to find that emoting out fun scenes is less important then typing kill, bash, kick, spell of doom as fast as you can.
Of course there's always the argument that the player might have rp'd the crap out of everything, things, hemotes etc. But at the end of the day, the fun for me is in bringing other chars into the world and story through emotes and tells, more then just winning.
Perfect plot, lively magicker who pulses with life with every detail.... accidental 'east' :)
lost a 35+day warrior a very frustrating way.
goes like this:
dummdidumm *hunting around*
> a small bag is here on the ground
get bag, s, w, n, n, n, n, n
then a small voice in my head told me: hey, that might have been some
silly idea, what if...
a cityguard of doom clobbers you on your head, doing frightening damage.
a cityguard of doom clobbers you on your head, doing frightening damage.
a cityguard of doom clobbers you on your head, doing frightening damage.
a cityguard of doom clobbers you on your head, doing frightening damage.
...yeah, spice.
I've had terrible deaths:
Kissed by Halaster
Paddled by Vanth
Booted in the head by Ashyom
Slain with immortal slayer numerous times
Quote from: "Adhira"I've had terrible deaths:
Kissed by Halaster
Paddled by Vanth
Booted in the head by Ashyom
Slain with immortal slayer numerous times
I am offering you my soul, just one of you kill one of my chars with an immortal power of doom.
pretty please?
Five day ranger, would have been the most powerful I had ever had, loaded with sid, all set for a leisurely life of wilderness living when I walked him into Allanak with a single grain of spice tucked in his cloak.
Alright, here is my worst experience with a very unsatisfying death:
My character was captured as a slave and made to suffer a few things but she managed to get through it. I actually Rped being the slave and doing what she was supposed to be doing and such and I grew to like the role. At one point I was trying to stay busy and not do anything to suicide her when I decided to take her out and do some foraging (since she was a ranger I thought it would help sooth her soul to be doing something like that). So she comes back into the city but before I get through the gate, these two magickers are there telling me not to go anywhere. Suddenly out of nowhere this Templar shows up and grabs me. He threatens to kill me for being treasonous. Confused there was nothing I could say but I wasn't. She was just foraging and actually showed him her sack. He seemed intent on killing her for whatever reason he thought she was being treasonous and eventually locked her in a jail cell where his psycho side-kick tried to murder her (and was successful).
All the time I am thinking.....Now why is she being killed again? There was a huge list of things that could have been done to her like maim her, pull her tongue out, hobble her etc. When it comes right down to it she wasn't running away from being a slave and those players denied her having to face the "consequences" of her actions even if she wasn't doing what those character thought she was doing (killing someone is actually not really facing consequences in a way because you are ending the RP and having someone make a new character). I have thought since then why do I play this game? I keep coming back but I often remember that incident and truly loose my will to play so I try my best to ignore what happened. It clearly has tainted my enthusiam for the game.
I guess it makes me think life in Arm is a little too cheap. Not that I am trying to take the harsh nature of the game away, just that I think when you kill someone you really are taking away incredible Rping opportunities. Since then I had a character that was part of the militia and read the documentation on what you do with run-away slaves and other crimes and know that those characters were actually doing something against what the rules say (not that the "good guys" cant be the bad guys). The documentation talks about not making things too crazy as punishments because that will discourage Rping and such. I only wish more people in power read the documentation and give players the chance to RP something out other than the girgling of blood leaving their throats.
I wholeheartedly agree that people are way to quick to pull out the death sentence to solve problems. It's way more fun and interesting to be creative about it. Begging fruitlessly for your life, OOCly knowing that there is absolutely no chance in hell of survival can only be interesting so many times.
Killing someone is definitely making them face the consequences. It's the ultimate version of making you face consequences. You have to judge things from your perspective "If I do this, I could lose my PC", and more importantly, from your CHARACTER'S perspective of "If I do this, I could lose my life!" That's one of the core principles of a permadeath system... you have to risk paying the ultimate price for your actions.
That said, I'm not saying that we should kill everyone every time they screw up. It's hard to say, but in your case death may have been too harsh. (Though leaving the gates without permission isn't always wise for clanned people.) Anyway, sometimes death has to be an option.
My lamest death was being held up by a raider who ordered my pc to hand over his pack and cloak or die. My pc did as was ordered and then the raider attacked and killed my pc anyway. I had just hit the 5 hour mark with the pc and had the concept stashed away for months waiting for me to play it. My pc was still mostly in newbie clothes and had no coin left since I had tossed it away after getting mildly equipped.
I have no way of knowing for certain but that death always nagged at me and left me feeling that the pc was only chosen as a target because of its newbish look. Also, it made me feel that it was only killed because they thought that I was holding out on the rest of my starting coin.
I had a PC who was to be the most uber. S/he was a great concept and I was in love with what could have been. I had cool people I was associated with and in my attempt to get some sort of coin, I was said to look 'similar' to someone who these other folks were looking for. So, on we go to the arena to satisfy these people.. and though my pc was denying up and down that s/he was in no way, shape or form who they were looking for. The fight begins... whomever I was made to fight against didn't know that there was actually an 'emote' function I think.. and I was really disappointed as I tried to make it a good enough scene for the audience without the help of the other person, but whatever. I was killed and was quite bummed that this wholly capable group of people COULD have enslaved my pc, but instead.. gave me this disatisfying moment of agony. Thanks!
(I sound bitter, but I'm not anymore, I realize it's not always gonna be fun and happy, soooo yay for permadeath, still the most fun and 1337 thing EVAR!)
I don't want to think about my lamest PC death, I'm mostly over it.
My second and longest lived PC, an assassin with all stats ranging from very good to exceptional, was hired to work as a hunter for a clan. Despite my utter cluelessness about hunting, getting lost several times and running from a pack of gortoks that tracked her across 30+ rooms, my PC managed to never die in an only semi-lame way (to NPCs).
One merry day, my PC remembered that her superior had told her to practice climbing, and showed her a spot to do it. She took the climbing gloves he had given her and figured why not. For some odd reason she decided to take a kank for the short distance, and promptly managed to get her kank stuck in a shallow pit with no exit other than climbing. So far, so annoying. (Attention: newbie mistake 1!)
She decided to climb anyway and explain her superiors how she lost the kank later. In my newbishness I of course failed to pay attention to stamina, and finally ended up in that shallow pit, all by myself, with next to no endurance. Just resting didn't help, so my PC figured well, there's no one nearby and I doubt anyone will look down here, let's sleep for a bit. (Newbie mistake 2!)
Woke up with an elf dagger between her ribs, which did nearly no damage. Then lo and behold, I somehow managed to forget to DRAW WEAPONS during a fight that lasted maybe 2 minutes... because the elf was so utterly newbish, and my PC ALMOST defeated her with bare fists. :lol: (Beware the leetness of uber newbie mistake 3 in a mere 5 minutes!)
City guards were only a climb check away.
The majority of my PCs had really lame newbie and adrenaline induced deaths. :roll:
A death that could have been good if the people involved had longer attention spans, a few more smarts, and could roleplay for shit. So sad. Tear!
My lamest death has been repeated with a few of my PCs. Basically, I've got my ranger character out in the wilderness. I get smacked down by an animal, but I use my badass Ranger-ninjitsu to escape. I run only a few rooms before I run out of stamina. I think "Dang, well, I'll guess I'll have to rest then continue on. I should be okay, though, so long as I'm on top of it."
It is at this incredibly vulnerable moment that, inevitably, the police will call, or my dog will need to go out, or my sister will be leaving for the airport and I need to make a tearful goodbye, or my mom will decide that she needs to show me pictures from her last vacation RIGHT NOW. Something will drag me away from the computer, but I'll think, "Well, my character needs to rest, and it will take some time for the baddie to track me down, and so long as I handle the RL stuff quickly enough..."
Anyway, yeah. I think you can fill in the rest for yourself.
Thank God I'm moving out next week.
My lamest death went something like this:
"I've had it with these mutha fecking snakes in this mutha- *hurk*"
No seriously....that is actually pretty close to what happened. :(
Made a rinth assassin. Got completely awesome stats (eg exc vg a-avg). Go and buy some stuff, things I knew from experience would not attract attention from 'rinth NPCs, mainly cheap leather armor and two plain daggers. Spend a few days playing a couple of hours each day and just getting into the character without doing anything much, when some day I meet a PC in the alleys. Said PC looks at me, says they want one of the items I had, and before I had typed out my response they attack me. The player was lucky or vastly superior and gets two very-hards to my head right away, with maces, knocking me unconcious in an instant. Now instead of robbing me and leaving me there, the player spends the next 30 seconds doing "kill man, kill man, kill man, kill man", I could see my hp going down by 15-20 or so at intervals equivalent to the kill delay, until finally delivering a mantis head.
(All in the space of one day)
Poking my head out of Storm - one room - with my weak-ass tailor (having absolutely NOTHING on me - no 'sid, kank, water etc - was just checking the weather, however I didn't know about the 'weather n' etc) getting lost in a storm for days, getting stuck right down by the silt sea (not really knowing my way around due to newbness). Then managing to a way a friend, who turned up 2 IG days later (yes, surviving two IG days stuck in the desert with no food/water/weapon).
Was night time, and I had to quit out for a bit, so friend left my char in a cave. Came back, found I was sharing the cave with a scary toothy looking guy...and thought - "Oh, this is it now..." - pretty much thought he'd kill my char. Turned out to be a really friendly guy who took me back to 'Nak.
Thought all was well and good, I was feeling lucky to be a live, till I realised I had no 'sid, no money etc. So I go out looking for bimbal, get lost in another storm, manage to find my way back to 'Nak. Ran out Stamina ONE room away from the gate.
Some guy came and subdued me, dragged me off to the Shield wall. Attacked, I fled, fell off the shield wall, lived! And then he found me. :(
I was seriously disappointed, after all that surviving, to lose it - one room away from the gates after going out for bimbal.
And the actual death itself, was totally devoid of any interesting RP.
Quote from: "Dead Kank"
And the actual death itself, was totally devoid of any interesting RP.
My sincerest condolences, but that's funny. :lol: :?
Quote from: "Good Gortok"(Explains how he died...)
Sounds like that is an NPC. Some NPCs are coded that way. They look at you and say what they want and try to kill you.
Quote from: "Ghost"Quote from: "Good Gortok"(Explains how he died...)
Sounds like that is an NPC. Some NPCs are coded that way. They look at you and say what they want and try to kill you.
While I would love to believe that it was an NPC, I doubt it. NPC's don't repeatedly hit you while unconscious. They say what they want, beat you unconscious and take it. Sometimes the NPC kills you, just due to how much damage is dealt out in a particular amount of time...but they don't continue to beat on you when you are KO'd.
Quote from: "Ghost"Quote from: "Good Gortok"(Explains how he died...)
Sounds like that is an NPC. Some NPCs are coded that way. They look at you and say what they want and try to kill you.
It wasn't an NPC. First of all the guy looked at me, which NPCs never do, and then what he said wasn't the standard line that muggers give you. I've had a handful of 'rinther PCs.
'kay here we go.
A while back, a played was putting together an elvan tribe in the labyrinth. (I think it was 5disgruntled). We set up my char (who had no fighting skills), and then I'm part of this awesome tribe with a rich culture, history etc.
My second time playing, there happened to be a few bodies on the floor after I logged in. Then some newbie walks in and ask if I have anything to do with them. I give him a standard 'rinthi reply 'no business of yours, roundear'. He then closes the door and attacks my character. He may have thought that would have kept me there but I managed to flee without any damage.
I make my way to a nearby rinthi tavern, thinking it's safe. I then try talk to one of my tribemates over the way when the newbie comes in. He fails sneak and backstab coming in at me, but manages to knock my character out because I was low on stun because of my telepathy.
I wait about ten minutes, while he presumably dragged me somewhere. Then he emotes sticking his dagger in the center of my face before killing me. Yeah, thanks for the rp. Asshole.
I have never had a satisfying death, but I have had a few fitting ones.
The rest.. well, chalk it up to Armageddon being a brutal game and app a new character eventually.
Hmmm...NPCs...I always blame it on the NPCs.
My first character in Arma, a 15+ day warrior sparring with training weapons. He took a club to the head, which cracked both his helmet and his skull. Lawl at dying during training.
My most recent character died from raptors, with their amazing ability to track me (in a decent sandstorm) all the way across the Red.
Forgetting to draw my fucking sword. This has happened a few times, but the worst time was with a 'raider' that was one of the best characters I've ever had.
Loved the desc, loved the BG, loved his mannerisms and quirks. He was perfect and fit me like a custom made glove. I think he made three days played of utter badassness.
Someone escapes a skary, marauding beetle into Storm, the beetle lurks around the corner, out of my line of sight from 'l n'. I ride north, beetle arrives, vicious bite to the ass, kank throws me, two more bites. I had time to blink, typo 'draw scimigar', and roar the first quarter of a particularly obscene curse before I was at negative HP.
-WP
Dying in the arena when I got fucked over by disarm failure. That character could have been great, he fit me like a glove too. Like a really comfy glove. Like a glove that could fuck everyone up but didn't really need to cause he was so badass. :evil:
I lost a 62+ day warrior due to a carru bashing him off a cliff.
I think the worst part was that just before the stun code knocked him out, I saw the carru falling in from above... The image of being pushed off a cliff and then crushed to death by the beast is just wrong.
Oh Dear Lord...I just had the worst death of my whole career here..."Death by Typo"
So I get into the game..my character figures,"hey..time to gather supplies". I go to the stables, get my beast out, type "hitch kank me" and all of a sudden, I lash out at it!
So after my non-combat pc dies due to the fight lag, I scroll back to find out that by mistake I typed "hit chkank me"..... :oops:
I can't make up my mind..should I laugh or should I cry?
Oh well..time to start a new character..good thing I've got several concepts in mind..
Quote from: "Pale Horse"I typed "hit chkank me"..... :oops:
That wouldn't have started combat, because chkank isn't a keyword for a kank. You must have left off the ch
Quote from: "Halaster"Quote from: "Pale Horse"I typed "hit chkank me"..... :oops:
That wouldn't have started combat, because chkank isn't a keyword for a kank. You must have left off the ch
Maybe his kank's name was chkank.
Quote from: "Rhyden"Quote from: "Halaster"Quote from: "Pale Horse"I typed "hit chkank me"..... :oops:
That wouldn't have started combat, because chkank isn't a keyword for a kank. You must have left off the ch
Maybe his kank's name was chkank.
YEAH HALASTER
My worst death ever was undoubtedly losing a 70+ day defiler in about the most insane streak of bad luck I think I've ever seen.
But again, he had some insanely good luck too in his career.
:twisted:
Most dissatisfying deaths? The third time I was killed by a scrab. The seventh time I was killed by a scrab. the twelfth time I was killed by a scrab. :P
Ok, I don't know if I've actually managed to die to scrabs 12 times, but I've probably died to NPC random encounters 80-100 times. Those deaths are pretty unsatisfying. NPCs are a bunch of twinks.
My most dissatisfying death occured a long, long time ago...
A magicker known as the Sage had ambushed myself and a well-known Kadian by the name of Lius, but Lius managed to talk us out of trouble.
The next day, my dwarf got a little rowdy and started punching somebody in the Gaj and got hauled off to prison. Unfortunately, some templar had left 3-4 NPC soldiers inside the cell I got thrown into. This being long before the nosave command was implemented, when I was tossed into the cell, one of the soldiers inside attempted to subdue me, failed, and all of them jumped me instantly.
The second most dissatisfying was the Bynner who knocked me out with the sparring club in his primary hand, brutally waylaid me with the club in his secondary hand, then kicked my face into pieces with the kick command he had in the queue.
Sparring ring deaths are hilarious. I remember one sometime last year when the unit's resident nearly-sergeant dwarf one-hit-killed an armoured runner with a mercy-on chop to the head. Whoops.
Quote from: "jstorrie"Sparring ring deaths are hilarious. I remember one sometime last year when the unit's resident nearly-sergeant dwarf one-hit-killed an armoured runner with a mercy-on chop to the head. Whoops.
I remember that happening to my ingame brother about 3 years ago, in the byn.
Thanks, Henna, again, wherever you are.
Quote from: "Agent_137"Quote from: "jstorrie"Sparring ring deaths are hilarious. I remember one sometime last year when the unit's resident nearly-sergeant dwarf one-hit-killed an armoured runner with a mercy-on chop to the head. Whoops.
I remember that happening to my ingame brother about 3 years ago, in the byn.
Thanks, Henna, again, wherever you are.
Yeah. I was laughing too hard to submit a bug report.
Yes, you two, that was the one. Thank you, Henna, for getting blood all over my alcoholic jerk of a mercenary.
I cannot think of a death I'd find 'dissatisfying', but after reading this thread, I am afraid my PCs may've killed other characters in a way that the player may've found a bit upsetting. Few people here mention that some PC may've maimed their PC, or find an alternative, but please, remember that sometimes 'some random PC killing you for no reason at all' could be a hired assassin, or someone who thinks your PC is too dangerous for them etc.
If you don't understand why your PC died, it may be that there was some rp behind it that (sadly, I know) didn't include you.
Down with no-emote killers, though. Death should be fun. At least in Arm.
One-hit backstab from some PC in the rinth after less than 24 hours of being accepted.
I'm not sure where to put this one - looked like someone that liked to practice backstab on new characters to me.
You see an outpost, you enter wondering why you haven't seen it before, five NPCs instakill you.
My first char was a simple Byn Sergeant who had lasted almost a RL year. Simple run up north and an immortal decided to bring in a pack of gortoks in for some fun. There happened to be another pack of gortoks in a nearby room. Died a horrible horrbile painfull death of being nibbled to death. Lol... wasn't upset or anything about it. First char lived alot longer than I figured and I even laughed about it when I found out it was by accident. Wonder if the imm still remembers....
Quote from: "elvenchipmunk"It's a conspiracy!
I had a character approved within the last week and got no e-mail from MUD either. Though I'm not bouncing because I verified that (got them to send me another e-mail to make sure).
My worst death was a 20-day warrior being spam-bashed by a carru until he had no stun left. Heh. Bashed me three times before the 'kill carru' lag wore off. Lesson? Don't fucking attack carru! I haven't since then. Yay.
Same here, I charged a charru with my leetness Winrothol. Before the lag was over bash,bash,bash. I just went holy WTF! Mainly because I was the leetness hunter and shouldn't have been offed by some carru. I as not pleased.
I hate it when somebody has total control of the scene. Like, has you subdued, or frozen in time with an uber spell. And instead of gloating or throwing in an emote or even making the magic scary. They just cast another spell and you die, or they just slash you up while you are subdued without having any fun with the scene.
Would be cooler if you emoted.
Quote from: "Dakkon Black"I hate it when somebody has total control of the scene. Like, has you subdued, or frozen in time with an uber spell. And instead of gloating or throwing in an emote or even making the magic scary. They just cast another spell and you die, or they just slash you up while you are subdued without having any fun with the scene.
On the flip side, I couldn't stand watching helpless while everyone around me was deciding on whether they'd let me live or rather kill me in a funny way, and who the blood would splatter on.
Only being able to do thinks sucks ass.
Shit, I have lots.
Death from a fall when I never intended to climb.
Attempting to climb in the 'rinth with a character with low endurance. Fell and hurt my head and passed out from it despite having full stun and while waiting to wake up, someone delivered a mantis head.
Wearing something valuable in the 'rinth and getting attacked by one of the super-buff NPCs. He somehow made four attacks in the first round of combat: very hard on the head, viciously on the body, solidly on the neck and very hard on the body. Dead.
Riding around in the desert. Magickal currents begin to swirl around someone. Paralyzed, fried.
14 hour old anger executed in Tuluk for something about magickers. The templar who arrested me was the fourth PC I interacted with.
Falling into a chasm which had a gith in it.
Spice and Allanak gates.
Going linkdead in a 2-room alley in the middle of a city, and coming back the next day to find my PC dead.
Just lost my first character after 3 hours of play, in his first combat. Really, I suppose it was entirely my fault for not fully reading the interface docs before playing.
Didn't realize that when the spear's on my back, I have to DRAW it, not WIELD it. Tried REMOVE, was told "not in combat." Tried RUN, realized too late that I meant FLEE, and I think I was lagging a bit because once I did FLEE, there appeared to be three more rounds of combat before I went unconscious. Curious as to whether I might stabilize and heal (it only said I would probably die without assistance...) I stayed online for ten minutes browsing help before being delivered to Ye Mantis.
Well, there's a reason this character was just a quick re-write of an old D&D character... figured the first shot at a game like this should be someone I'd enjoy playing if he lived, but wouldn't be attached to if he didn't. :)
Had a lot of fun in those three hours, though. Learned that you can't get water from the earless bucket-carrier, and by an amazing coincidence of location, wound up with a gourd full of sewage in the process. Found an empty cell and dumped that out, finally found the temple of the dragon and gave 45 sid to the Templar before filling my gourd and having 45 sid taken as part of that action. D'oh! But at least now I had a smelly gourd of water.
The only thing that really upsets me is that I didn't learn enough about the world to get a good idea for my second character!
make a mercenary from the farms of allanak.
Gives you a great excuse to not know two shits about the world, and another great excuse to be warrior subclass and fight for a living.
Welcome to Armageddon.
Killed by one of those uber, large group of soldier mobs during a large scale battle.
It went something like this:
Your character slashes Lord Foofypants hard on the head!
Crazy_templar sics a large group of half-giants on you!
The large group of half-giants crush your head!
*beep*
It took me five minutes to read through the spam to figure out what happend to my character. When I did, I felt tears welling up.
:cry:
With a rinther once, was walking about, got attacked by a mugger and ran away. Got to a bar, and thought I would be safe in there, until the mugger ran in. And then 5 of the bar patrons gangbanged me within 5 seconds. Wewt.
Lost a 34 day old character (most favoritest character ever) to not knowing that 'plant' can get you crimcoded. I thought it was just an hemote version of give or something. I felt so incredibly dumb.
Quote from: "Nightstring"Lost a 34 day old character (most favoritest character ever) to not knowing that 'plant' can get you crimcoded. I thought it was just an hemote version of give or something. I felt so incredibly dumb.
Yea. :(
Quote from: "Vessol"With a rinther once, was walking about, got attacked by a mugger and ran away. Got to a bar, and thought I would be safe in there, until the mugger ran in. And then 5 of the bar patrons gangbanged me within 5 seconds. Wewt.
haha
That tavern has been siding with NPCs for the last 14+ years, regardless of clan affiliation. It's hilarious.
A Tavern Full of Random People in the Rinth [NS]
A human vagabond is standing here, sharpening a notched knife.
A burly, muscular man is guarding the southern door, blades drawn.
A bristle-bearded bartender is here by the bar, serving drinks.
A hunchbacked man is stooped here, eyeing the room warily.
The stooped elf has arrived from the north.
The stooped elf looks down at you.
The stooped elf squints at you, then sniffs you.
Looking at you skeptically, the stooped elf asks, in allundean:
"You a PC or an NPC?"
A human vagabond looks at you.
A burly, muscular man looks at you.
A burly, muscular man says, in sirihish:
"Wearing a few too many items there, aren't ya, pal?"
Chuckling from beneath the cowl of his dirty cloak, a human vagabond says, in sirihish:
"Description's a little long, ain't it?"
The stooped elf shakes his head, tapping your shoulder with a long, wickedly sharp fang.
A human vagabond joins the stooped elf's fight!
A burly, muscular man joins the stooped elf's fight!
A hunchbacked man joins the stooped elf's fight!
Quote from: "Agent_137"make a mercenary from the farms of allanak.
Gives you a great excuse to not know two shits about the world, and another great excuse to be warrior subclass and fight for a living.
Welcome to Armageddon.
Hah, that's exactly my character concept! Sent it in for application an hour ago.
:x
That's me, throwing a temper tantrum.
Flaming Octillo is soooo right.
Here's a good one from a long time ago, when I was just starting out. I had a character walking between Red Storm and Allanak when a mekillot barged in. I dash off, all the way to Allanak! Having reached safety inside the gates, I switch windows to...ICQ (remember ICQ?). I switch back a minute later to find that the mekillot has tracked me to the city, stomped through the gates, and massacred every guard in its path. I look back just to see him gut the last guard, and chomp down the prey it had wanted so badly...me.
Here's another one. A long time back, I had put a lot of work into a character in the 'rinth. He finally started running with the crowd he'd been searching for for a long time. He teams up with a mul, and while in the alley, they cross an elf they had beef with. So, naturally they jump him! The mul subdues the elf, drags him to the well, and throws him down. Then, certain we needed to finish the elf off shouts "After him!". I'm, of course, following. I see this (Leeeeeeroooooooy!), and pee myself, scrambling to type "follow self", but too late. The mul jumps in, I jump in, we both fall, and land unconscious next to the unconscious elf. Let's just say...we didn't wake up first.
I don't have the log anymore, but it went something like this.
> e
The gates of allanak.
Some buff guards are here, guarding the gate.
A human soldier is here.
A half-giant PC is here.
>e
A human soldier inspects your belongings briefly.
A human soldier finds a strange mushroom.
East of the gate
Here you are east of the gate, there is a big pit or something here.
About 8 half-giant NPC soldiers are here.
About 5 human npc soldiers are also here.
A male voice shouts from the west:
"Stop him!"
You are now wanted!
A half-giant attempts to subdue you but you struggle away.
A half-giant insta-draws both clubs, attacking you!
Fifteen NPC soldiers joins the half-giants fight!
Your vision goes black.
> think oh shit.
That is not a valid option.
Options are:
Connect, whatever.
This is basically an entire 'genre' of deaths, I imagine it happens quite a bit.
Dying for things you did NOT do and try everything to prove otherwise, but you still end up taking blame for it. Makes you wonder for ages afterwards who the hell set you up so damn good, or what was misunderstood and screwed you over.
I can't believe people still play this game...
A long time ago (1996?) my favorite PC of all time, a Blackwing assassin, died alone while I was out exploring (read: bored) at the hands of 4 NPCs that I didn't expect to see. I still remember my heart pounding in my chest as I sat back from the keyboard and thought, "Shit. That just happened." followed by, "Fuck, I can't believe I lost that dagger."
It was just so...lame.
Quote from: "Armaddict"This is basically an entire 'genre' of deaths, I imagine it happens quite a bit.
Dying for things you did NOT do and try everything to prove otherwise, but you still end up taking blame for it. Makes you wonder for ages afterwards who the hell set you up so damn good, or what was misunderstood and screwed you over.
Amen to that.
I had just come over from a hack and slash called "Magick" or some such, (now closed) and jumped into the game with a brand new newbie PC, got hired by Oash and was running along enjoying myself and my new uniform, until I entered the traders inn. A templar made some kind of comment about my eyes (they were red) to a fellow noble, and then had his NPC guards subdue me, and I was killed soon after by them. That was about five years ago. I suppose I was the templar's quota for the day *shrug* That was the only death i can say that i remember or left a sour taste in my mouth.
QuoteA templar made some kind of comment about my eyes (they were red) to a fellow noble,
If you ask me, you got damn lucky. At least you were killed for a good reason. And yes, having red freaking eyes is a good reason to kill somebody. Witches in an uneducated society burned for less.
bullshit.
mutations are common in zalanthas.
the templar was played poorly.
Quotebullshit.
mutations are common in zalanthas.
the templar was played poorly.
That sounds about as ignorant of everything arm is about right there as it gets. People can kill you for any reason. Templars especially over anyone else can kill you for any reason they want. It's not a fair society. How do you know he didn't have a childhood trauma where his parents were killed by a red eyed man?
I had a pretty neat character who got caught by an evil person. Said evil person did some evil things to my character, but spared my life and left me somewhere to recover. Recover I did, and started hauling ass, when three rooms later an NPC killed me in two rounds of combat. It was really anti-climatic after having survived some great but really scary RP.
Quote from: "Agent_137"bullshit.
mutations are common in zalanthas.
the templar was played poorly.
I disagree somewhat. First of all, the templar didnt mean to kill the guy but only to throw him out of Trader's inn, it's because the HG messed up that the death occured. Second of all, while the mutation is rampant in Zalanthan, it is not in Trader's Inn. Dirt and grime is even more rampant in Zanathan, but you can get thrown out out of Trader's inn for that too. It's not like that templar was walking through the city, performing eugenic purgings. He just chose to keep his favourite upscale Tavern upsale. The fact that the Templar did that to someone wearing Oashi colours suprises me though.
Quote from: "Dakkon Black"Quotebullshit.
mutations are common in zalanthas.
the templar was played poorly.
That sounds about as ignorant of everything arm is about right there as it gets. People can kill you for any reason. Templars especially over anyone else can kill you for any reason they want. It's not a fair society. How do you know he didn't have a childhood trauma where his parents were killed by a red eyed man?
Dumb.
In anarchy, people kill you for profit. For a gain.
Psychopaths kill people for kicks.
So, only poorly played characters kill for "any reason," with the excuse that "it's zalanthas."
I expect people to be killed for cheap, but not for nothing. Templars with attitudes like yours turn me off on zalanthan politics, because that sort of reasoning is so nonsensical.
Folker, that's now how I read it. If that's the case, well, woops, shit happens. And I agree it's a good thing that the tavern is kept upscale. It should not be the barrel.
That said, my worst death by far is being killed in one round of combat while armed by 3 previously tamed beasts that were suddenly no longer tame.
p.s.
Dakkon, alright, say he had a fair reason, like the "murdered parents" scenario. So if he had a good reason, then consider he's a templar in a position of complete safety and power. He should live up to his special-application and make the death taste good. Give a reason, give a scene. He didn't.
Hrm, after rereading the post, I see where I might've made the wrong assumption. Usually if the Templar has you subdued like that, it's just to get the HG to shove you into some random direction, perfect for throwing people out. If he got you subdued just to immobolize you and then one round killed you, then yeah, that was pretty subpar. Templars are like the showman of death, they should be more hurrendous then that.
Quote from: "HoD"I had just come over from a hack and slash called "Magick" or some such, (now closed) and jumped into the game with a brand new newbie PC, got hired by Oash and was running along enjoying myself and my new uniform, until I entered the traders inn. A templar made some kind of comment about my eyes (they were red) to a fellow noble, and then had his NPC guards subdue me, and I was killed soon after by them. That was about five years ago. I suppose I was the templar's quota for the day *shrug* That was the only death i can say that i remember or left a sour taste in my mouth.
To play Devils Advocate for both you and the Templar in question:
1. When I see "NPC" "subdue" and "killed" in the same sentance, I immediatly think "the infamouse crime code" reared it's ugly head. I've seen many instances where the PC "in controle" of the NPC guards had someone subdued and for some silly reason ("silly" as in trivial or missunderstood) the NPC decided that their captive needed to die. Chalk it up to code problems. Also, as has been pointed out, Templar's can have you killed for whatever reason they care for as they are not held up to any sort of justice system but their own. Everyday peons are holding the short, oderous end of the shit-stick. From what it sounds like, the character who died had red eyes. That's a Tuluki color and therefor a "bad thing" or at the least a "take-note-of" thing in Allanak, be it mutation or not.
2. At the same time, I too have felt strongly at times that PC Templars are all to prone to killing off another PC. Be this true or just my anger-clouded version of the event, there have been several times where I've felt cheated out of some good interation by a Templar simply walking in, not likeing my PC for whatever reason, taking them into custody, executing my PC...with what I felt were lack luster scenes and interactions...maybe it's my RL self that is reacting to these situations. IG, the Templar can do exactly what he did for whatever reasons that he wants and does not have to explain himself to you. It's obviouse that he can..he just did. IRL, this is a gross missuse of the powers of the legal system and power in general, and being raised with the values that I have, I find this disgusting and outragouse...
...then I remember that it's just a game..and that I really do play it for the brutality :roll:
So, my sympathies to you and I'm glad that it didn't put you off so much that you didn't stick around to try it again.
I have to add to this that in alot of cases I've seen, pcs who are in danger of a templar's whim tend to deal with it stupidly and pretty much -force- the templar to kill them. I've seen that as the case alot more often than I've seen the templar just jump the gun and kill them.
If someone who has "the power of god" backing them has you in your clutches, you kiss ass, beg, whatever the fuck will keep you alive, unless you have a death wish.
Most cases that I've witness where a pc died to a templar's decision, it was brought on by the pc themselves. The decision to die, 90% of the time, was made by the pc.
QuoteMost cases that I've witness where a pc died to a templar's decision, it was brought on by the pc themselves. The decision to die, 90% of the time, was made by the pc.
Yeah, people who's chars seem to think they have rights of any kind. It always amazes me.
In this particular scenario, apparantly there was no rp involved at all. That's a shame, I agree that people with templar power should try and make things fun and exciting. I wasn't there to see what happened, but I still think a templar can treat you any way they want.
I'd hate to feel safe around them.
On the same note I've been killed by uber powerful invisible defilers etc. I never got a single emote. Did it suck the balls? Yeah, but if there's one thing this game has taught me, it's that some people suck balls at making the game fun, and some people rule.
Quote from: "Agent_137"Quote from: "Dakkon Black"Quotebullshit.
mutations are common in zalanthas.
the templar was played poorly.
That sounds about as ignorant of everything arm is about right there as it gets. People can kill you for any reason. Templars especially over anyone else can kill you for any reason they want. It's not a fair society. How do you know he didn't have a childhood trauma where his parents were killed by a red eyed man?
Dumb.
In anarchy, people kill you for profit. For a gain.
Psychopaths kill people for kicks.
So, only poorly played characters kill for "any reason," with the excuse that "it's zalanthas."
I expect people to be killed for cheap, but not for nothing. Templars with attitudes like yours turn me off on zalanthan politics, because that sort of reasoning is so nonsensical.
Folker, that's now how I read it. If that's the case, well, woops, shit happens. And I agree it's a good thing that the tavern is kept upscale. It should not be the barrel.
That said, my worst death by far is being killed in one round of combat while armed by 3 previously tamed beasts that were suddenly no longer tame.
p.s.
Dakkon, alright, say he had a fair reason, like the "murdered parents" scenario. So if he had a good reason, then consider he's a templar in a position of complete safety and power. He should live up to his special-application and make the death taste good. Give a reason, give a scene. He didn't.
You, as a non-noble pc, are NOTHING, to them. You are an insignificant bug, less than a living, breathing, intelligent being, and you'd best make yourself something that is worth more to them alive than dead should you give them any reason (no matter how silly -you- believe it is) to decide to squash you. Your opinon on the subject doesn't matter, only the opinion of the "chosen of their god who controls life or death over you insignificant bugs" is what matters and this has been bred into you for many generations.
What you believe to be a "fair reason" is irrelevant. It only matters what "the chosen of The Sorcerer King" believes to be good enough of a reason. Is it good enough of a reason to kill in real life? That is also irrelevant. What matters is the beliefs of the pc in the setting of the world.
I would think most people in RL would agree that Saddam Hussein didn't have a good enough reason to kill the people that he did. That does not mean that he, or others that believed as he did were wrong from their own point of view.
Personally, I believe that so long as the templar pc was acting IC, they did -nothing- wrong. It's bullshit to make judgments on another persons roleplay without knowing the whole story, the only ones who can do so are the players of the pcs involved and the immortals who can put the -whole- picture together.
And besides, if your character is one to grovel, its usually way more fun. Some of my absolute favorite Armageddon scenes have included my character blubbering in the throws of despair, begging to keep his fingers. :shock:
If you put the effort into these deathly scenes, and make them all that they can possibly be for those involved, I find that more often than not, you pull other characters into the mood and it takes it to a whole other level. Once you put other players at ease and say "Hey, I'm not going to be a dork, I'm into this, lets play this stuff out!", things get interesting. That goes for the victim and authority.
It's also extremely satisfying to walk away from a character knowing fairly certainly that in the final hours, you made another player -- if not their character -- pity your character rather than you as a player. It means that they glimpsed at the real essense of your character, and so all the work you put into it is appreciated. It's letting your character shine before you put it away.
Quote from: "Dakkon Black"Yeah, but if there's one thing this game has taught me, it's that some people suck balls at making the game fun, and some people rule.
True. That doesn't necessarily mean that they were roleplaying poorly however. I do my best to create a good scene no matter what. Sometimes, I make mistakes. Sometimes, the victim makes OOC mistakes. Sometimes, 3rd parties involved make mistakes. That's just a fact of life when you are dealing with alot of different people.
There are those times however, when it all comes together for -everyone- involved and you have those unforgettable moments where a scene (for better or worse ICly) plays out like a thing of perfect beauty.
That, is one of the biggest reasons why I love Armageddon. Those moments make all the mistake-riddled times mean so much less and fade into obscurity so quickly I can't remember what really had me angry at the time.
Quote from: "jhunter"What you believe to be a "fair reason" is irrelevant.
I never said shit about fair. I was talking practicality and playability and logic.
Fair. You talk like I've played for a month.
I'm well aware of what they can do ICly. My post was completely from a players perspective, that templars should not go about killing players willy-nilly. The amount of "harshness" it adds makes up in no way for the huge cut into playability.
And when i say "willy-nilly," I mean it in the strictest sense of the word.
I won't elaborate further; I speak clearly.
Woha, perhaps I should of kept my mouth shut. Just to clear things up..
Yes, there was RP, it involved me begging for my sorry ass while gripped by the halfgiant and saying the red eyes was the result of a magicker's curse (or did I said i use to be a vampire, i dont remember) but it was something crap like that (I was a 12-13 year old newbie, playing a vampire based PC, forgive me)
This was five-six years ago, so im sure its not relevent now. I still play, and i consider the experience helpful, since because of it I try to let people live, rather then kill them, i dont think i would do that If i didn't get to know what it felt like to loose a PC you liked. so - besides it being a pisser, and my experience mind you, whats the big problem?
QuoteYes, there was RP, it involved me begging for my sorry ass while gripped by the halfgiant and saying the red eyes was the result of a magicker's curse (or did I said i use to be a vampire, i dont remember) but it was something crap like that (I was a 12-13 year old newbie, playing a vampire based PC, forgive me)
I don't think anyone had a problem really, we all want to see a fun exciting play happen. I just think it's important to realize that a templar can very very legally kill you for MUCH less then bieng a vampire. Or a magicker cursed. In fact, those are two exceptionally good reasons to do it.
There was certainly a whole lot of discussion over a 5-6 year old event. I say we kill HoD's current character in the most elaborate way possible to offset his 6 year old bad experience. Any thoughts ? I say we pour ketchup over his chara and dump him at the nearest halfling village.
Can your plan go wrong and I become known as "La-pappa" to them, and after 12 (edit:IC) years of training, I lead them on a quest across the known world?
Quote
I don't think anyone had a problem really, we all want to see a fun exciting play happen. I just think it's important to realize that a templar can very very legally kill you for MUCH less then bieng a vampire. Or a magicker cursed. In fact, those are two exceptionally good reasons to do it.
I know, I didn't post my death as some kind of 5-year old grudge to get back at the player of the templar. I have been killed for much less, and i expect it to happen again, i posted it because i felt like sharing a death that was...uh, you know, i cant even come up with a word. I just shared the only death i bothered to remember.
12 years? No. You only have untill June 1st. But otherwise, yeah, sure. So, let's meet up at Gaj in Tuluk ?
Quote from: "Folker"12 years? No. You only have untill June 1st. But otherwise, yeah, sure. So, let's meet up at Gaj in Tuluk ?
Sweet, my halfling minions are so going to bite your crotch.
I think it doesn't matter if it was "right" or "wrong". It could be very "right" death and still extremly dissatisfying. I thought this thread is about personal opinion, not about "who was poorly played and who deserved to die".
My second or third char was killed by bahamet because I was stupid n00b. I certainly deserved that death and I am not blaming bahamet for killing me. But still, it was somewhat dissatisfying.
Quote from: "Agent_137"Quote from: "jhunter"What you believe to be a "fair reason" is irrelevant.
I never said shit about fair. I was talking practicality and playability and logic.
Fair. You talk like I've played for a month.
I'm well aware of what they can do ICly. My post was completely from a players perspective, that templars should not go about killing players willy-nilly. The amount of "harshness" it adds makes up in no way for the huge cut into playability.
And when i say "willy-nilly," I mean it in the strictest sense of the word.
I won't elaborate further; I speak clearly.
And my point was that as far as the gameworld is concerned, templars -aren't- going around killing people "willy-nilly". Like I said, 90% of the time a pc dies to a templar, it was their own fault. More often than not, I've seen those who are in the custody of a templar, continue doing and saying things as if -they want to die-. Then, those same people complain later that the templar's player was just poorly roleplaying and it was no fault of their own they were killed.
"That bastard templar was just out to kill someone and I was the innocent victim of them! God dammit! I did nothing to deserve it! That templar's player was just killing people all willy-nilly for -no- reason at all!"
:roll:
I've been on the templar's end, where you try and try to give them chances to straighten their shit up without having to resort to killing them, but the damned person seems hellbent on having you fuck up or kill their pc. You can't ICly let shit like that go, because then you are acting OOC to prevent killing them. Fuck that. If they choose to rp it poorly and suffer the consequences ICly, that's their own problem. I'm not going to feel guilty over an outcome that they actively pursued with their pc.
QuoteLike I said, 90% of the time a pc dies to a templar, it was their own fault.
And don't forget, about 9% of the time it's the fault of whoever payed the templar to execute said hapless character.
I've also seen instances where completely harmless and innocent characters have been killed just to send a message to their employers or friends.
Not a single of my character, even those who pissed Templars somewhat, died to them unless I made an OOC choice to end my character. The moment I allowed the character to do everything in his power to escape death from a templar, he did it. It's only when situation is so fucking beautiful, escaping consequences would've been anti-climatic, did I allow the character to fail to do things that allow the Templars not to kill the chara.
Ofcourse there are exceptions, like sending a message and so on, but overral ... most Templars I've interacted with are actually pretty good in offering an entertaining death. Though maybe it's because I almost never play independants. Maybe I should give it a try.
I also disagree with a statement, that Templars are not seen as the will-nilly cause of death inside the gameworld. Inside Zalanthas, they are seen as exactly that, it is Outside of the Game, the templars are understood that they're not all that murderous. In my opinion anyway.
Elven assassin bynner. Loved the byn as his tribe icly. Ocly one the best bunch of folks I've had the pleasure of playing with, so it was easy. 34 days in, my longest lived non-special to date.
One day he decides to go check stuff out around tuluk. Finds a building and climbs up. I had just recently discovered that you can scramble for purchase, but didn't realize that scrambling for purchase caused you to lose hp.
So I climb the building, and then I'm at the top and I get distracted by something on TV. Leave him there for a while, and then when I'm back I type e instead of w or s instead of n (I can't remember) and instead of walking along the roofs I miss my climb and fall off the edge.
So of course I think right there, "what an opportune time to experiment with scrambling." And I quickly type u;u;u;u;u. Now this elf had very poor endurance, and was very fragile so this SAPPED his HP and when I finally hit ground I was at -8. ONNO!
Slow but surely blood loss set in and he eventually went to -11 mantis head.
I thought I was going to cry.
This is also after the same character had fallen off many a 2-3 cliff with his byn companions and he meets his end to small building in Tuluk. Damn you scramble code. Damn you.
What'd he have 30-40 hp to die to that? You sure he died due to scrambling and not just falling ?
I was multitasking.
Also, my character was in an area where NPCs attack you if they meet certain requirements.
I forgot where I was, and I was also doing other stuff. I was attempting to go from Point A to Point B. I was spamwalking.
I got killed. Heard the *beep* and then switched to my mud client. Scrolled up to see what happened. Then Punched myself in the face.
Quote from: "Folker"What'd he have 30-40 hp to die to that? You sure he died due to scrambling and not just falling ?
The fall killed him, for sure. But he had previously survived worse falls. He died primarily because I spam scrambled and he was weakened so much that when he hit the ground he was a dead man. And yea, he only had like 80hp in total.
Does go to show that your favorite characters can have the shittiest stats.
Also goes to show that if he hadn't had shitty stats, you might still be playing him ;)
I nearly lost a character to the Tan-Zel tunnel once. That would've been crappy. I really think that place should have a gate in front of it.
Eh, I once had a character with exception wisdom/agility, and very good strength, and he only had 84 hp. Yet he managed to survive magickals, aswell as other things. Eventually died to a stacked up movement lag. At the same time, I witnessed a Mul getting knocked out in the first round of combat via two blows made by a human. So ... stats may have various influences =)
The above post made me sad.
Put a lot of thought into a char. 10 minutes in and I get lost in a sandstorm and try to find my way back(stupid). Noticed I climbed -thats not good-. Tried to go back...You see the body of ******
MANTIS HEAD
Quote from: "fourTwenty"Put a lot of thought into a char. 10 minutes in and I get lost in a sandstorm and try to find my way back(stupid). Noticed I climbed -thats not good-. Tried to go back...You see the body of ******
MANTIS HEAD
Yeah, that's why sandstorms are dangerous. Very much so, I hope this isn't discouraging. I also hope you look forward to your next death.
I edited away an IC sensitive post. Please do not post information about a live or recently dead character, even if it is not your own.
Mm, just a note, the character mentioned in the deleted post died over a year ago.
I made a char, and for the first 12 or so hours...It was great, I pissed people off, got into fights, had a plan, smoked spice, figured I'd try and make him live a while...Loved every moment.
Then I walk out of my rent spot, move 3 rooms, see agro NPC #23483....And my internet goes down. Log back in dead.....
Happy days.
EDIT: Said PC, meant NPC
Quote from: "Nile"I made a char, and for the first 12 or so hours...It was great, I pissed people off, got into fights, had a plan, smoked spice, figured I'd try and make him live a while...Loved every moment.
That is an awesome way to play, btw. I salute you!
Trying to help a militia-woman subdue a man with the only character that's ever held my interest, and then getting set upon by a few dozen guards and murdered despite trying to surrender to them.
QuoteTrying to help a militia-woman subdue a man with the only character that's ever held my interest, and then getting set upon by a few dozen guards and murdered despite trying to surrender to them.
Nosave on
It's part of my char set-up prompt.
I didn't know you could have your nosave status in your prompt. Can you put in your mercy status?
Checking the helpfiles via web doesn't show me these options. Am I misunderstanding?
I think he just means it's one of the first things he does when his character enters the game. I do the same.
However, I think also that you can't be subdued when holding someone else, so NPC guards resort to their backup plan. This is why you leave law enforcement to the professionals. :wink:
My most disappointing deaths is when I meet a character in game, I really like playing with him or her, our playing schedule matches perfectly, the chemistry is there, we have great goals together and the roleplay is amazing...
Then, out of nowhere, one of us die randomly or suddenly... Most of the time it can be stupidly or could have been easily avoided..
Sometimes I really hate the OOC rules that you cannot get in contact with such players, because I really wish I could tell them that I had a great time and that, hey, we should play this and that together next time..
Then I usually go another six months or so before I meet another player like that..
QuoteMy most disappointing deaths is when I meet a character in game, I really like playing with him or her, our playing schedule matches perfectly, the chemistry is there, we have great goals together and the roleplay is amazing...
Then, out of nowhere, one of us die randomly or suddenly... Most of the time it can be stupidly or could have been easily avoided..
Sometimes I really hate the OOC rules that you cannot get in contact with such players, because I really wish I could tell them that I had a great time and that, hey, we should play this and that together next time..
Then I usually go another six months or so before I meet another player like that..
I know all too well what you mean.
(We could even be talking about the same situation, who knows!)
Maybe after the game's over we can all post long rants about how "such and such" happened and it wasn't supposed to...and what really happened to "so and so." Etc.
I'll list my worst death in 3 months. I mean, it was just plain out mean, what ginka did to me. :)
QuoteSometimes I really hate the OOC rules that you cannot get in contact with such players, because I really wish I could tell them that I had a great time and that, hey, we should play this and that together next time..
Then I usually go another six months or so before I meet another player like that..
Send player kudos. That could, hopefully, relieve at least some of your angst.
Besides, giving and receiving player kudos feels good. Come on, you know you want to!
You ever have it happen where all of a sudden, you get disconnected from the game and you think your net has gone out? But when you check to see, you find that you can access everything on the internet and Arm. web site no problem? But for some damned reason, the game keeps disconnecting you..reconnecting..disconnecting...and so forth.
Yeah..that just happened to me...and I was in the middle of a fight, literally just typing "flee self"...
During the time that I couldn't do anything, my character died...
I am not a happy man. :evil:
EDIT: Ah..I see by the counter on the front page that the game re-booted/crashed...Kinda figured...
Some PC deaths are dissatisfying, but what about the poor npcs? Once about a year ago I was playing a merchant house family member and I went outside with my guard.
I saw some tents, and I saw some elves, and I thought...in my still-newbieness...hey! I'm a merchant! I'll go trade with the elves! So I enter the tent and my guard dies instantly! I ran away immediately, but my guard was dead.
I don't think he ever came back to life magically either, like npcs do. But I stopped playing my family member soon after that so I will likely never know.
My poor npc guard died a death that usually only happens to players.
Then I salute the NPC guard and feel his pain.
When I get a new character, I'll drink a (insert appropriate alcoholic beverage) in his memory.
If it crashed...mayhaps you can get a resurrection?
Quote from: "Tarx"If it crashed...mayhaps you can get a resurrection?
Naaww...I'm already in the process of a new concept, and I'm over the fit of annoyance that the death of my last character caused. It also helps to have "pre-made" characters laying about your desk. I can just pick one and modify it to fit my new frame of mind.
Flee + return + Lightning.
Quote from: "LauraMars"Some PC deaths are dissatisfying, but what about the poor npcs? Once about a year ago I was playing a merchant house family member and I went outside with my guard.
I saw some tents, and I saw some elves, and I thought...in my still-newbieness...hey! I'm a merchant! I'll go trade with the elves! So I enter the tent and my guard dies instantly! I ran away immediately, but my guard was dead.
I don't think he ever came back to life magically either, like npcs do. But I stopped playing my family member soon after that so I will likely never know.
My poor npc guard died a death that usually only happens to players.
I played a Kadian PC in 2000, and again in 2003.
I had the same NPC guard die on me, and had a sad day twice. We buried him twice.
I miss you, Ricko!
My warrior died and the game crashed 3 minutes after. Everyone in my party respawned back at the gates, just like before the fight happened.. but I remained dead.
I've played two Whirans, both of whom fell to their deaths.
It makes one feel rather silly.
I think next I'll have to play a Vivaduan, and see if I can get him drowned.
Quote from: "FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit"I've played two Whirans, both of whom fell to their deaths.
It makes one feel rather silly.
I think next I'll have to play a Vivaduan, and see if I can get him drowned.
Hehe....My first long lived magicker was a Whiran..he died falling off of the shield wall..
Quote from: "Pale Horse"Quote from: "FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit"I've played two Whirans, both of whom fell to their deaths.
It makes one feel rather silly.
I think next I'll have to play a Vivaduan, and see if I can get him drowned.
Hehe....My first long lived magicker was a Whiran..he died falling off of the shield wall..
My first whiran died falling into the Silt Sea. *facepalm*
My first whiran died getting eaten by halflings.
My second whiran was killed by a ridiculously powerful mindbender.
My third whiran died casting the first spell of her life in 15 days played.
Quote from: "LauraMars"My third whiran died casting the first spell of her life in 15 days played.
So did mine! And I bet $100 it was the same spell!
Quote from: "Rhyden"Quote from: "LauraMars"My third whiran died casting the first spell of her life in 15 days played.
So did mine! And I bet $100 it was the same spell!
I'll bet it's also the same one that I used with one of mine in a "last ditch effort" to escape a mundane who decided to kill my mage solo. Escaped the mundane only to end up somewhere that was very bad for me to be...moments later...mantis head.
Quote from: "jhunter"Quote from: "Rhyden"Quote from: "LauraMars"My third whiran died casting the first spell of her life in 15 days played.
So did mine! And I bet $100 it was the same spell!
I'll bet it's also the same one that I used with one of mine in a "last ditch effort" to escape a mundane who decided to kill my mage solo. Escaped the mundane only to end up somewhere that was very bad for me to be...moments later...mantis head.
I went into an unfinished zone once.
Quote from: "mansa"Quote from: "jhunter"Quote from: "Rhyden"Quote from: "LauraMars"My third whiran died casting the first spell of her life in 15 days played.
So did mine! And I bet $100 it was the same spell!
I'll bet it's also the same one that I used with one of mine in a "last ditch effort" to escape a mundane who decided to kill my mage solo. Escaped the mundane only to end up somewhere that was very bad for me to be...moments later...mantis head.
I went into an unfinished zone once.
I did too!
I also went to Jihae, and hell. And back in time.
Quote from: "mansa"Quote from: "jhunter"Quote from: "Rhyden"Quote from: "LauraMars"My third whiran died casting the first spell of her life in 15 days played.
So did mine! And I bet $100 it was the same spell!
I'll bet it's also the same one that I used with one of mine in a "last ditch effort" to escape a mundane who decided to kill my mage solo. Escaped the mundane only to end up somewhere that was very bad for me to be...moments later...mantis head.
I went into an unfinished zone once.
Lol, me too.
wish all Uhh...I don't think I'm supposed to be here and I cannot get out on my own. Is there anyone on who can get me out of here please?
I held up the Bard's Barrel, shot somebody, but missed, ran away, escaped into the desert with no gains from my heist whatsoever. I ran out of stamina and rested, and here's where I screwed up. While I was resting I checked my MySpace, got on a few minutes later and vigilantes had caught me, subdued me, thrown me on a Kank, and were carrying me somewhere on the North Road. Suddenly we stopped by a large sinkhole. I was thinking "Oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap, can't you guys just let me die in the arena like the other criminaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamantishead.
You should probably edit that post...or just delete the whole thing. Recent deaths should not list specifics...
...but that actually sounds like a good death. Better to die by PC interaction as consequences for your actions than by a bug in the code, random attack by a wandering NPC, or etc.
I agree with Tarx. That sounds like a flipping awesome death, man. There's a 'Most Satisfying Deaths' post somewhere on this same forum. You should check it out. Death can be a great part of the Arm experience. Some of my favorite characters are 'favorites' simply because they died in interesting or amusing or mysterious ways.
admittedly, the other thread is about half as long as this one.
That's what she said.
who, YOAR MAWM?
Quote from: "Fivedisgruntledmonkeyswit"I've played two Whirans, both of whom fell to their deaths.
It makes one feel rather silly.
I think next I'll have to play a Vivaduan, and see if I can get him drowned.
I managed to starve with all elementalist kinds that can feed themselves and get parched with all elementalist kinds that can satisfy their thirst..
I'm more of an idiot.. I win.
Losing a very fun character in less than a second to the crim code.
I have two.. Both my fault.
Falling down a cliffside really sucked.
Dying to Carru Bash also really sucked.
I had a near death experience with an older PC of mine (who died stupidly when blank fled from blank into blankity blank blank) -- basically ended up dying of thirst, stamina at 0... Health going down faster than you can even follow it... And yeah. So my PC reaches 1 HP, is completely exhausted, has no stamina left... And you're saying: Well, that's what you get for being in the desert.
The kicker? There was a tavern selling water one room to the east.
Long time ago had a criminal type who'd lived for a while, made a good name for himself, was in with the right people, was fairly well along, and, oh yeah, had successfully smuggled shit-tons of spice into Allanak.
Bought an apartment to store and sell the spice from. Started looking through the apartment and - what luck! - there was a keg in it!!!!... full of cleaning fluid. I died on my apartment floor shortly there-after.
Every now and then, I still find the keg in an apartment I rent. Either I'm the only one that's ever used it, or the imms are refilling it....
I love that keg.
-- X
Quote from: "sarahjc"Dying to Carru Bash also really sucked.
Lost my all-time favorite character that way before the reel code settled down.
Losing a character with the climb skill to a one-room fall on your neck sucks, too.
Here is one....
Imagine having a human ranger that can kill a tembo without taking a hit at a day and a half. I didnt even have great stats, for some reason, I just started with this insanely good combat. I actually wanted him to be an indy mercenary and had gotten a couple of people under me already, we were out riding around and I was showing them some good locations to camp....well we stopped in these ruin's for the night. Well it wasnt long before "Winds swirl around someone"....I end up somewhere out in the boonies next to this cute little non-agro critter. I am thinking, well, it could have been worse, atleast I am in a seemingly non-hostile location, and I landed right next to a cute little meal. :twisted:
Well, I start landed some serious hits on this cute little guy...thinking he is about to be a tasty yummy bite....For the love of god, make sure you "look n s e w u d" before you attack something....In just a moment after the fight starts, from above come four of his friends....now, one of them is a sinch...five of them at the same time....oh shit....the worst part is...it sure is hard to flee when the only exit is UP, and you cant climb so good.
I was tore apart by little fuzzy grimlines.....*tear*
And he had such promise within him, I hope the little fuckers liked how it tasted.
Not sure if I've posted this story before, but here goes, anyway:
A long time ago (in my superbly twinkish days), I had an assassin/hunter, who I'd powergamed up to mad skillz by throwing knives at and backstabbing duskhorn, etc. Later, I join Kurac for a year of training, then I get bored and go down to 'nak and join the Byn. At this point, I'm at about 15 days played, and my half-breed assassin is mopping the floor with all the other recruits.
So the Byn gets a contract to kill some mysterious beast. We load up, along with some Kadian hunters, some Tor or Borsail fellas, and a couple of miscellaneous half-giants.
We find the beast in its lair, and engage it in combat. Problem is, -nobody- can hit the thing in melee. Not our badass dwarf sergeant, not the half-giants. Nobody.
My reptile brain kicks in and engages powergamer mode: throw bypasses defense skill, w00t. I check my belt: 5 throwing knives. Go into the next room, throw all 5 knives. All of them hit the beast. I run back into the room, it's at "not well" condition already. Sweet. I pick up the 5 knives, run back out, and repeat...probably about 3 times.
Finally the thing is in terrible condition, and I'm thinking to myself "now I'm going to deliver the coup de grace to this thing, and look like a total badass." So I line up to backstab it...and miss completely. Right at that moment, the half-giant tanking the beast panics and flees out. Since I was the last thing to attack it, it turns on me...and destroys me in one bite. Later on, I learn that they managed to finally bring it down, after I'd nearly killed it with my uber twinking skills.
At the time, it was the most disappointing death -ever-. With the benefit of a little hindsight, I realize now that it was probably fairly well-deserved, heh.
Just had my worst death ever.
Strong character. Lots of time spent on it. Died to the fecking damned quirks in the code that make it possible for a mob to run in and insta attack you in the same damned instant and cause you to reel none stop.
....I'm pissed...Really..
Yah, I know what you mean, Bub.
I died many times to them.
Comforts to you.
Quote from: "Pale Horse"Just had my worst death ever.
Strong character. Lots of time spent on it. Died to the fecking damned quirks in the code that make it possible for a mob to run in and insta attack you in the same damned instant and cause you to reel none stop.
....I'm pissed...Really..
Aww... Need a hug?
Don't be mad, because it has happened to me once when I really did not deserve the mob killing. Its ok. You'll have plenty of strong characters in the future. Don't cry over just one.
Quote from: "Pale Horse"Just had my worst death ever.
Strong character. Lots of time spent on it. Died to the fecking damned quirks in the code that make it possible for a mob to run in and insta attack you in the same damned instant and cause you to reel none stop.
....I'm pissed...Really..
That sucks. :(
I made a 'rinth character, when I was still in my exploration over roleplay stage, who decided to explore the sewers. Sorcery, dead things (who just won't give up!), poison, unconsciousness, begging for my life, etc., etc. ensued. So, I finally made it back up after IC days.. Walking down with a bag full of stuff and didn't realize I had one item that was a bit too expensive on. Muggers come up, but it's okay because I'm a quick guy. Fleeing, and then BAM. The server crashes.
It nearly made me cry. I lived through things that I really should not have lived through, then die to that.
This thread makes me sad.
Back in 2002 I had a dude who was involved in major, major plots. This dude's superior ended up becoming the NPC head of a noble house. Wicked things were happening. The character was uber-leet in both killing skillz and political clout. People wanted him dead, but he was near untouchable.
Went out hunting. Unloaded a bunch of arrows on a SNAKE of all things. Didn't kill the snake with the arrows because the PC had hardly ever used the archery skill. So went over to kill the snake. Attacked the snake, and typed GET ALL... Never get all. Snake got a free hit for each arrow (5-8).
No problem. Poisoned, but still killed the snake. Even had a tablet with me. COULD NOT EAT THE TABLET BECAUSE I WAS TOO F(*&^ING FULL.
The PC died in the noble estate, to a poison he was holding the cure for.
I think it was about a year later they changed the code so that you could still eat tablets if you were full.
It still hurts.
Lame. Plain and simple. That's all I've got to say.
Quote from: "Kreig"Lame. Plain and simple. That's all I've got to say.
I don't know what happened, but I was sad (out of character, that is) to hear.
I was on about my third character, and had stayed alive for what I thought was a great amount of time for a new character.
I had just been offered an awesome job that I was completely thrilled about. And during my first duty, I was killing a gurth. The day before I had lost my kank, and gotten an inix. When the gurth pulled into its shell, i was using 'shell' as my target. And of course, it pulls out from the other person's attack, and I start attacking my inix.
Needless to say, short death due to a very stupid move on my part. Painful targeting lesson well learned.
So fucking lame.
Another death of mine-- First PC. I'm fresh from another RPI MUD, eagerly awaiting the wonderful and beautiful RP Arm has so richly promised me. I walk into a tavern and lo, find other PCs there. One of them even goes so far as to -talk- to my PC!
I, trusting little creature that I was, drink the waterskin he offers me and die within minutes, vomitting the contents of my PC's entire waistline out onto the street. Death by Sewage.
When people pull crap like that, you should log it and send it in to the Imms.
That situation constitutes -obvious- twinking, and he probably deliberately targeted you because you were a newbie.
Wolfsong's death is the reason why 9 new players out of 10 never return to Armageddon afterward.
Quote from: "Malken"Wolfsong's death is the reason why 9 new players out of 10 never return to Armageddon afterward.
9/10 players probably don't belong here either.
Eh, I'd say that was a fair death. The docs are pretty explicit that strangers shouldn't be trusted. Besides, maybe you played so well that he didn't know you were a newbie. :wink:
Quote from: "FightClub"Quote from: "Malken"Wolfsong's death is the reason why 9 new players out of 10 never return to Armageddon afterward.
9/10 players probably don't belong here either.
I would say that neither is correct. Let's not digress down this path.
The reason it's not a fair death is that no person in their right mind would actually -swallow- a mouthful of raw sewage, even if they had the world's worst cold and couldn't -smell- the contents of the waterskin before they took a swig.
Quote from: "Synthesis"The reason it's not a fair death is that no person in their right mind would actually -swallow- a mouthful of raw sewage, even if they had the world's worst cold and couldn't -smell- the contents of the waterskin before they took a swig.
Amen to that.
However if it had been sleeping poison, and the man had then dragged him into the desert, stolen his boots and killed him. Thus leaving him dead within the same time. It would have been fair.
Unfair deaths need reporting.
Fair deaths need to be dealt with.
Good idea, nice character...power goes out and that seldom if ever happens equals mantis head. Feck!!!!!!
Quote from: "Cowboy"Good idea, nice character...power goes out and that seldom if ever happens equals mantis head. Feck!!!!!!
Happened to me during Katrina.
Going out of my way to help a new player, and dying trying to save them. Pretty sad.
That coupled with 15 failed flees in an open area. The code strikes again.
Ok. I had this ranger die because out group got cocky and decided we were going to go after a Mek that the boss had seen on his way back from storm, and well.... about three died.
About an hour later after i got over how stupid that had been:
Made me a warrior/weapons maker, went through my naki routine of buying a kank, bags, glasshacker, and headed out the west gate, only to find a mekillot standing there (probably the same one!) Killed me in one or two bites. My time wasn't up, so I waited about 20 mins and logged back in. By that time he was dead, but i was crime coded by a templar that had seen me at the gates before I died/ressurected. Needless to say i died by torture.
So basically i had one mek responsible for THREE deaths!!!! What the Feck?!
That sucks a bit. Yup.
I got reeled to death by an NPC type that my character regularly hunted with little problem. It sucked. That is all.
Quote from: "spawnloser"I got reeled to death by an NPC type that my character regularly hunted with little problem. It sucked. That is all.
Was it a Verrin Hawk?
Those bastards get me all the time. :shock:
I'd rather not say, it being recent. It would be too strong an indication to some people that I played a particular character.
My most recent dead character ate a fruit that he picked out in the plains. Was hungry, so he ate it. Started feeling bad, thought it was just a bit of minor food poisoning that's been experienced several times before with no dire effects. Turns out too late that said fruit was lethal. :(
I had one similar experience. Carried this piece of fruit in a container that i DID NOT carry food in until my character could ask someone he trusted about it. (I had never seen it IC or OOC) so i didn't know anymore about it that my character did.
I was in my apartment one day with plenty of food around, and for lack of thinking typed something to the affect of:
>get fruit containerX [enter]
>eat fruit [enter]
with a speed that would make any mudder proud. We'll needless to say, HP start dropping slowly, but quite steadily.
I managed to find a healer at about 12 HP, if I remember correctly.
Ah yes, the dread mystery-fruit death. If you want to find out if an unknown food-like item is actually food, the easiest way is to try to sell it to a grocer NPC. Since he has been dealing in foodstuffs his whole life, he can recognize the difference between wholesome food and certain death. If a grocer won't buy it, it is probably because he has the knowledge and experience to realize that it is not food. All perfectly IC and above board.
Of course a real roleplayer will continue to eat the mystery fruit with all future characters, just to prove that he doesn't abuse OOC information.
Thanks Angie, I'll be sure to remember that advice next time I want to prove how hardcore of an armmer I am. I about spewed my drink all over my laptop on that one...
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Over poisonous fruit In Game?
That's hard core RP.
Had a ruk over half a year ago, got knocked out by (X) after he (X'd) it. Friend tried to drag him to safety, succeeded but stacked up two movement commands rather than just one, dragged him off a cliff by accident. Friend could (X) so no big deal, but my char fell, surviving the fall.
But not the braxat at the bottom who one-shotted for over 100 health.
Needless to say, was a bit sour to die due solely to an extra movement command.
...that you didn't even type.
*forgive the resurrection*
My first ranger. I spent two weeks planning her, coming up with all sorts of background, personality quirks, even a playlist. I am logged in for two hours with her, and still marvelling over her -mad- stats, just bought me some gear and water, and head out exploring. Only to have a cilops bound up and poison me dead, not just from one bite, but, me being out of stamina and not in a real good position to run, from about 10. It was a very fast death for poison. :P
Going linkdead in the desert and logging back on to a dead character is by FAR my worst.
Most recent - taking one step out of civilisation, someone turning one of the downstairs computers to log in as I was walking out (which drops my connection), and after some lag, seeing large amounts of spam of being attacked by something that if I could've reacted, wouldn't have stood a gnats chance! Didn't even see the mantishead, I lagged again, changed client to try to fix it, and came back to "Welcome, make new character plx!" *sighs* Worst death ever :(
Dialup + Linkdeath + Backstab = Log in, Welcome! Please create a character.
Laaaaaaaaaame.
A character that I had put countless hours into developing a huge background, personality, everything. This was by far my most enjoyable character as he was involved in quite a few world type changing quests. Did things with him that I really never truly thought would be possible, and was having a blast. Still to this day the one character that I wish I could get back. I loved him.
The death:
My character was in an area with a few other PC's when he was subdued, and then one-hit and thrown into unconsciousness. Normally, I'd be fine with that and just think well that's the game that I've chosen to play. This one just really pissed me off because I did not have time to react. The player who did said subdue, kill <me> stacked his commands. Meaning he was using a client where he entered everything in at once and I had no time to react to his single emote, break free of the subdue, etc.
It went like this:
emote;subdue <me>;k <me>
This just rubbed me the wrong way as it was my favorite character of all time and the player who gave me said death, was someone who was obviously a trusted player since they were playing a karma intensive race.
- matt.
I've had a lot of bad deaths in my time, but you know what makes a bad death a good death?
Everytime I've killed somebody IG, I've always sent an email to the mud saying why I killed them. The one person I knew to use it was an ungemmed magicker, and we killed her because we knew she was a magicker, we saw her casting on a previous mission. Looking at it from her point of view, it sucked. Sure we threw out some emotes, I got my Bynners into their positions and we took that skinny bitch out.
My point: Explain yourself to the mud. It gives everyone Piece of Mind, if they want it.
Quote from: mattrious on July 17, 2008, 02:09:02 PM
emote;subdue <me>;k <me>
You subdue <me>, despite his attempts to struggle away.
You kiss <me>.
My worst death is always a result of falling. It never fails that I'll be bumbling along nicely when suddenly a gash opens in the floor in front of me.
Most of mine are due to saying hello to a cilops or a bahamet without the proper handshake.
My most dissatisfying ones, though, are the ones where I never see the person, get poisoned or magicked into oblivion, and I don't even get the opportunity to -try- to do anything. Maybe I just look too damn brutal.
Once upon a time, on the North Road:
The masked mul says, in sirihish:
"DROP PACK!"
You struggle against the masked mul and break free.
The masked man attacks you!
The masked mul attacks you!
The masked man attacks you!
You panic and attempt to flee...
You run like a madman and escape...
Three hours later, I'm sitting in a fierce sandstorm, dehydrating to death, thinking to myself...Damnit, I should've just dropped the fucking pack... ::)
Or there was the time (before mercy on and the stop comand) when some newb in the Byn had "kick" stacked after some other command...well, he knocked me out with his first weapon, landed an Ultimate Slash with the second attack, and then sent me to the realm of Drov with the delayed kick. Thanks, bud. (Here's a hint: if you're fighting someone, you don't need to use their name to target them...it targets them automatically, and if you knock them out, you won't accidentally kick them in the face.)
I had a mul assassin that died to the stooped elf because my internet connection crapped out on me. Mul assassins are one of those things you don't really get a chance to play that often...
I had 2 characters die back to back to the -same- gith ambush while being led by the -same- Byn sergeant. Boad, you know who you are.
I had this dwarf with Absolutely Incredible endurance (I won't embarass you all with the hp roll on this guy) who got arrested for brawling in the Gaj (before nosave subdue, right...), and lo and behold, I get tossed into a jail cell where a PC templar had been interrogating someone, but forgot to take the NPC soldiers out. So the first one fails the subdue on me and the rest gangbang me right there in jail.
I've been ganked by Kurac (while working for Kurac) a couple of times, for no good reason. Apparently because someone got paranoid and had an itchy trigger finger. Once, I talk to the Agent in 'nak and he's like "yeah, we'll hire you." So I find the local sarge (who's about to leave for Luir's), and I'm like, "Hey, agent so-and-so says you guys are hiring me, can I go up to Luir's with you?" and he's like "okay." Then we get halfway there and he's like, "Wait, you aren't actually hired yet?" "I never said I was." -Slice-. The other time, I talk to the agent in 'nak, actually -get- hired, go to Luir's, then they're all like, "You spent time in the RINTH?!? OMG SPY" -slice-. It's like: dude, bro...Agent Numbnuts over there hired me specifically -because- I had 'rinth experience...I idle away 5 days played in Luir's, staring at Tarkon across the bar, and this is how you repay me? Thanks, bud. I don't play in Kurac much, anymore.
There were the 2 characters it took me to figure out how those certain NPCs in the 'rinth operate....
A couple of characters lost to NPCs via the reel code...
Famous last thoughts: "General poison couldn't -possibly- kill me with 115 hp." You slip and cut yourself!
I had this special-app Elkrosian who made a fabulous escape from the Arena, fled to Tuluk, went through the trouble of getting an sdesc and mdesc change...and then died going into a place with "OMG SKULLS AND SPIKES YOU SHOULDN'T GO IN HERE BRO" all over it...yeah...pfft.
I had a Vivaduan once...ran out of stamina in a blinding sandstorm, but ONE ROOM NORTH was apparently clear as day. So I'm trying to regen some stamina, and I'm slowly filling my waterskin up. Mysteriously, even though I'm completely blinded by the storm, a half-giant in the one room north sees me casting (in the middle of this blinding whirlwind, mind you), throws a fucking -throwing knife- in (through this blinding whirlwind of sand and dust) and pwns me shortly thereafter. Way to roleplay, guy. Did I mention it was a Kuraci half-giant? Yeah, Kurac and I don't get along at -all- for some reason.
But the vast majority of my deaths are lame...usually a result of me getting bored and going off to do something stupid.
Only two deaths stick out from the rest of my crappy deaths because they were two of my most beloved characters.
I unstore my first Rukkian around the time the gith war decided to start, who happened to be a kid and naturally acted childishly at times because he was not fully 'mature' yet. Generally, he's doing a pretty good job, better than I was expecting. Finds out a certain temple is under seige. About five or so other magickers are in the room with him when the news is delivered. Determined to prevent some inevitable desecration, he runs ahead excepting backup to be close on his tail. He didn't want a certain 'tactic' of his to hurt any friendlies. While waiting for backup he gets ganked by four gith.
Had a beastly dwarf, insane stats, good friends, and he was trying to find a purpose in life because his old one got shattered (in his eyes anyway). Out exploring and hunting, he decides to try out a rantarri. Takes it down relatively easily but is low on stamina. Rest of the pack decides its time to come out for vengeance. -Almost- get far enough to get to a good spot for some resting but run outta stam. Sit down, and wait. First two get close, get up and run a bit more, sit down again. They waste less time coming but split up. Take down the two rantarri and just fall below the his no sleep hp regen. So now he's exhausted, battered, and really wants a good nights sleep. Ofcourse, one more rantarri has to show up, Pretty even fight despite the obvious handicap. Get down to the point where it only really needs one or two more shots to go, and it just happens to get that killing blow. Never again will I attempt to hunt rantarri unless my char really really really really wants to.
I was exploring around red storm and fell into a quicksand pit.
<3 my burglar died instantly, at least it was quick.
Had my legs fed through <insert something really nasty since the actual method is IC-sensitive>. The death was long and drawn out, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think I've ever been more mentally exhausted in my life.
Sapped off a barstool in the middle of a busy tavern, while codedly "watching" the guy coming to sap me, because my scan was above his hide.
He knew I was guild merchant, he knew there were no other PC's in the tavern, despite the hoard of NPC's, not to mention VNPC's, and he knew there were no NPC soldiers within "Rush In" distance.
That guy will forever rest in my mind as the ultimate shit-stain.
Sap me while I am walking down a street, or something.
You know I am guild merchant, you could have pulled this job anywhere...In the middle of the tavern while I'm sitting at the bar talking to bartender...holy crap.
Quote from: Forest Junkie on July 18, 2008, 11:57:16 AM
Had my legs fed through <insert something really nasty since the actual method is IC-sensitive>. The death was long and drawn out, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think I've ever been more mentally exhausted in my life.
I don't blame you. Torture does not always = good RP. I mean come on... you can give the victim something better to do than just moan and groan in pain for a long, drawn out time.
Quote from: Desertman on July 18, 2008, 12:54:51 PM
Sapped off a barstool in the middle of a busy tavern, while codedly "watching" the guy coming to sap me, because my scan was above his hide.
You know I am guild merchant, you could have pulled this job anywhere...In the middle of the tavern while I'm sitting at the bar talking to bartender...holy crap.
Yeah, that is kinda crappy.. unless there is like a huge brawl going on or some other distraction of some sort. If he wanted to sap you dead then he should have at least made it a classic street mugging scene or something. Oh well, hopefully he's learned something from reading this or from the experience itself - like many of us probably have.
The best part is he then goes on to emote being "sneaky" about pulling me off the barstool in mid conversation and dragging me across the busy tavern, as though the npc I was talking to at the bar wouldnt notice me suddenly being drug off through the room...
It only makes it better that he was trying to luir me into the dormitory through the Way, I completely knew he was trying to kill me, and just sat in the tavern waiting for a PC militia member to show up, refusing to go to the dorms so he could sap me there...I guess he just got bored and decided to walk into the main tavern to get me becuase it was obvious I wasnt coming to a place where it would make sense for him to pull the job.
The very fact that he tried to luir me out of the main tavern into a secluded area is proof that the guy knew 100% that doing it in a crowded busy tavern at the bar was bad form, but since he couldnt luir me away, he decided..."Fuck it, he is guild merchant, I can do it here."
It was special...very special.
Lol that tale about Kurac made me laugh.
My longest lived char ever was a 65ish day merchant for kurac. Kurac is like the best house ever for sneaky, deceitful and tricky drug runners right? I had recently seen a very good friend in kurac, also +60 day or so have a fake death. To escape from the law, or someone. Everything from sdesc-changed Dyed black hair and the works. Very cool.
So when I got in trouble with the law, I was like, hey, no worries, a fake death, a new city, my house will know what to do. I must have been terribly profitable for the house because I had over 20K of personal coinage in my footlocker and bank. I whip off an email to the kurac house imms about the law trouble and the next bit of rp was awesome.
We went into an office. Then kurac killed me.
The best part was the emote I got. My personal guard who'd been with me for 10 or so IC years at this point was rp'd over the course of those 2 RL years as something of a father figure to my char, who didn't really have one. But anyways, he was more loyal to the house than the char and he emoted, steps away from ~you. Lol. That was it. My 2 RL year stint with Kurac. That was the best they could come up with. The man who had fought off a templar and killed a half-giant for me didn't even have a look of hesitation. Or a grimace or something.
It was dissapointing because all I could think was, man there was so many ways that could have gone.
Then there was the time I was in a cave. Three pc's entered. The first one subdued, the second one killed. It was actually somewhat impressive how quickly they had managed to beep me.
This happened about 5 RL years ago, on my 20 day ranger. I went outside and got killed instantly by a magicker.
Too much specific information, Kill4Free. You need to edit that.
Ok. I've had my fair share of lame deaths, subpar executions... Two take the cake:
1. That one time where I died in HoK. 2. That other time I got killed off the menu.
The transition between mantis head to mantis head was almost entirely seamless. ;D
:o :o :o
The most amazing thing ? Both deaths happened unto my 'xact same character...... :'(
Yuup. I'll never live it down. Most truly, baffling, obscenely lameriffic set of deaths, evar.
:-X
I've only had 3 characters, including my current.
But, I have yet to die in a disappointing fashion.
My first character ventured out like a moron into the desert(being a desert elf, I thought duh, goto the desert) fell and couldn't get back out of a hole, died in there from dehydration.
The other one was too current to go into specifics, but it was to NPC's, and he fought valiantly to the death.
I think I go into an attitude now, since I'm still new to the game thinking I am GOING to die, its a matter of how long. So when it does come along(or I think its inevitable, such as my previous one) I just emote my ass off, and enjoy it.
My first character..
He was out in the desert mining/exploring. He was out for a while and was lulled into a sense of security after not seeing one PC or NPC.
Suddenly a scrab came in and he thought "I've been training a lot, I bet I could take it!" So he jumped off his mount and drew his first weapon.
Being new and inexperienced with non-sparring combat, I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get his second weapon to draw. After quickly
realizing that he was fighting a losing battle, he jumped back on his mount. I couldn't move! I was stuck in the room and dying without
any idea what was going on. It wasn't long before the mantis head came to greet me..
Afterward I realized I had he was still holding a chisel, so no secondary weapon, and also that you need one hand free to ride a mount!
I felt like an idiot, it was such a dumb way to let my character die. The worst part is, I can't even blame anyone else for it! :P
rofl, Kuraci deaths do suck. I hate that clan with a passion, but I'll be honest: there really are not many clans that rock better than the Fist. I've had some great times playing a merc with them.
That being said, don't make enemies with Kurac: they -always- win! *shakes fist*
Ooh, ooh! I forgot my first one.
So, I log in for the very first time, its all new. I'm in Allanak, so into the Gaj bar I go. Manage to sit down at the bar after a few tries, and start trying to work out what the heck I'm doing.
Some guy starts talking to me, I'm a little confused with the commands, but after some OOC's, I manage to use 'talk' instead of 'say'. No speech emotes, couple of normal ones, I'm thinking, "Woot, I -think- I'm gunna be a-okay!". Anyway, talk turns to work, I make some vague hints as to what I'm good at, "Excellent", says he, "Come with me, I think I know a person". "Hawt-damn", I think, I'm going to be in demand (I think I was playing a merchant of some sort).
So after a little bit of a struggle to stand, he's looking at me saying, "You coming?", so I'm still confused, and launch into more ooc's on what I'm doing (I was used to party-ing and groups, so follow was all new). Anyway, I obediently follow, thinking to self, "Cool, I've made a friend, perhaps this will be my new mud of choice!".
Anyway, he takes me to this room, closes the door. Kills me. I can't even open the door to flee, since I hadn't mastered such a command yet.
I got rez'd (I was still way less than an hour old), and after a very short while, decided that the game didn't want newbies (clique-y bastards, was the actual thought) and quit. Took me a year to come back, and I still think that this was a load of monkey-dung. Killing off obvious newbies is wrong on all levels, even if I'm playing an assassin/psychotic murderer/weirdo/rinther/etc, you don't whack a newbie you've been teaching how to use basic commands like 'say' and 'follow', typically, they ain't going to come back! Sure, whack them after a week to 'show how tough this game is', but don't assassinate people before they make their first friend, make their first coin, and learn how to talk! That just makes me plain sad :(
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Quote from: Forest Junkie on July 18, 2008, 11:57:16 AM
Had my legs fed through <insert something really nasty since the actual method is IC-sensitive>. The death was long and drawn out, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think I've ever been more mentally exhausted in my life.
Hah.
Just because you give consent for torture, you don't have have to keep it to the end. You can easily say "Guys, I would like to fade to black from this point on" and I am sure you will not hear an objection.
You were there. I think I did later on after I was pretty spent, emotionally.
Not in the log I have. The only ooc I see are the asking of consent parts and someone (me) dropping off for a minute because of a phone call
Quote from: Ghost on July 19, 2008, 12:46:56 PM
Not in the log I have. The only ooc I see are the asking of consent parts and someone (me) dropping off for a minute because of a phone call
Phone call was more important than me? I hate you.
Yes, yes it was
I thought we had something special. :'(
Trying to navigate my favoritest character evar through a sandstorm and winding up in the Silt Sea. :'(
Quote from: Qzzrbl on July 19, 2008, 01:37:35 PM
Trying to navigate my favoritest character evar through a sandstorm
Not favoured enough!
Mine was too recent to recount.
I can sympathize with the challenges that face the noobles. I just wish I hadn't been noobled.
Best pc Desc I've ever done, or ever will do. I wonder if I can reuse it some how. It's was barely used. I died in just a few hour after meeting only a very few people.
All of my most dissatisfying deaths happen when Desertman allows his wife to play while she's in a crappy mood :(
I had a 'rinthi half-giant assassin with red skin. The documents state that they have skin colors which "sometimes go into the reds", so I figured that was a decent bet for skin tone. Wrong. Everyone knows red-skinned half-giants are krathis!
Being spam backstabbed by someone I couldn't see was bad enough. Getting resurrected due to being like two hours old, thinking to myself "What the fuck am I going to do now?"... and then getting spam backstabbed to death again by the same fucking dude.. that sucked.
Quote from: Khorm on July 19, 2008, 05:36:07 PM
I had a 'rinthi half-giant assassin with red skin. The documents state that they have skin colors which "sometimes go into the reds", so I figured that was a decent bet for skin tone. Wrong. Everyone knows red-skinned half-giants are krathis!
Being spam backstabbed by someone I couldn't see was bad enough. Getting resurrected due to being like two hours old, thinking to myself "What the fuck am I going to do now?"... and then getting spam backstabbed to death again by the same fucking dude.. that sucked.
Stop being rich in the 'rinth ?
"I'm a dwarf, cilops cant poison me"
Quote"I'm a dwarf, cilops cant poison me"
Hahahaha. Two out of the three dwarves I've played died from poison.
The third was stored.
Dwarven poison resistance for the lose.
So, reading this, made me realize that Arm players have never given me a player-inflicted dissatisfying death. I've had players go the torture over execution route, as well as those who have killed characters, but did it in a damn cool way so as to give an ending to the storyline. All this, even though it'd be easy to do a quick kill, and even though I've set myself up for it, now and again.
Anyway, thanks. :) (Yes, this is a mass kudos. Yes, I am that lazy.) Reading this made me realize just what a classy Arm experience I've had. Er, let alone what a lucky one.
Some of your dissatisfying deaths sound very satisfying.
1st Disappointment: Week old character smashed by 3 Bahamuts
2nd Disappointment: Month of play goes down the drain when I am trapped for about 4 hours and slain (don't even know what killed me)
3rd: ???
Quote from: FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit on July 19, 2008, 06:47:30 PM
Quote"I'm a dwarf, cilops cant poison me"
Hahahaha. Two out of the three dwarves I've played died from poison.
The third was stored.
Dwarven poison resistance for the lose.
Did that not ever get "fixed" or did they just decide to nerf it to nearly nothing? I remember having a dwarf that was immune to poison many years ago, but the few dwarves that I played for any length of time since then didn't seem to have anything as far as resistance or endurance. What little bonus they seemed to have toward endurance only seemed to give you a little extra health.