tek and utep

Started by askaran, March 31, 2007, 07:10:33 PM

Has anyone ever seen them? are they run by players or are they npc's that are sometimes controlled by the staff... just curious
Quote from: Cutthroat on August 22, 2009, 10:57:13 PMSo Eunoli Winrothol, Samos Rennik, and Thrain Ironsword walk into a bar. The Red Fang bartender looks up and says, "Get the fuck out of my bar."

Tektolnes and Muk Utep are practically never seen by the general populace of their city-states; and by general populace, I mean everyone who isn't an incredibly favored and high-ranked templar.
Being in the same room with a sorcerer-king is just about the highest honor attainable by any denizen of Zalanthas -- even moreso if they're not killed as a direct result of that.

I imagine that a small handful of players has seen the Tektolnes and Muk Utep characters, but it's impossible to say.  The game has been around for a very long time now, and made a switch from H&S to RPI.  If no players saw the NPCs, I'm fairly sure that every new staffer takes a look at Tektolnes, Muk Utep, Luir Dragonsthrall, the Sand Lord and the Dragon within their first day on the job.  They probably also load copies of the characters and kill them for giggles.

As for whether they're being played by staff or by a player -- Tektolnes and Muk Utep are characters that, in addition to having absolutely no reason to interact with any players ever, are also people that are capable of destroying the entire Known World without too much effort.  Players aren't usually allowed to wield that sort of power, and with good reason.

Just imagine what would happen if mansa was to play Tektolnes, and he logged in drunk.  Now imagine mansa playing Tektolnes while sober.
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Quote from: "Larrath"I'm fairly sure that every new staffer takes a look at Tektolnes, Muk Utep, Luir Dragonsthrall, the Sand Lord and the Dragon within their first day on the job.  They probably also load copies of the characters and kill them for giggles.
heh I know I would :twisted:
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Quote from: "Larrath"
Just imagine what would happen if mansa was to play Tektolnes, and he logged in drunk.  Now imagine mansa playing Tektolnes while sober.

Jesus, man, don't talk about that. Think of the children!

What if at the end of Armageddon one all we see is a big ANSII screen telling us to shop at Wal-Mart?


Because Tek is run by the executive board for Wal-Mart and Muk is really that guy who started Starbucks.
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I saw a black robe templar. Once.
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Quote from: "Maybe42or54"I saw a black robe templar. Once.

Me too.
His mdesc sucked balls.
And so did his eq.

But whatever, still a black robe  :D
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I watched  XX burninated by a fire elemental.


The ground beneath her feet cracking as it burns with heat, the xxxxx xxxxxxxx figure exclaims, in sirihish:
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An intensely hot jet of fire streams from the xxxxx xxxxxxxx's mouth, engulfing the xxxxxx, xxxx-xxxxxx templar and completely incinerating him.


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You know you can moderate yourself, right?  Rule of thumb: if you think it might be too sensitive, it probably is.

Thanks for the lesson in protocol, Pops. Before you commented, I was found wanting. Cheers!


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Sorry if you feel you're being picked on.  While there is some of IC info in this thread, I don't think any of it is nearly as recent as yours, manonfire.  One RL year old is pretty much the minimum before even thinking of discussing something that happened IG.

Last I heard, the snark only existed in Half-Life.

So stop being so snarky.

You snark.
esperas: I wouldn't have gotten over the most-Arm-players-are-assholes viewpoint if I didn't get the chance to meet any.
   
   Cegar:   most Arm players are assholes.
   Ethean:   Most arm players are assholes.
     [edited]:   most arm players are assholes

I was snarky once.
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I saw a black robed templar, once.

He was naked.


Now that I think about it... how did I know it was a black robed templar?


It boggles the mind.
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I saw a white-robed templar once.






He saved my life.
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men. -George Eliot