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Originally Posted by Llandris
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I've been the only Guide on today, have not seen 1 CoM petition nor have suspended anyone today.
Lol
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Did someone say forum drama? Well that's interesting to hear only one GM was working tonight and it wasn't Lirin, because the guy who claimed to petition (ninjawar) did so to everyone in /say.
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This is going to be longer than it should be but when it comes to forum drama, 1999-2003 was where it was at for me and I'm honored to help out, if for no other reason to add my own stream to this little puddle here as some kind of homage to flames of yore. Let's just say, i'm honored to be here with you all today, despite the circumstances. Maybe I'm just a troublemaker, I don't know, you can tell me.
So to start, It was all happening so fast...
I installed the game a week or two ago after not playing EQ1 for >10 years. After much grouping and some bard aoe'ing I went to CoM because I was the right level finally, and it was probably my favorite Kunark leveling-zone back in the day. So far in p1999, it had all been building up to that point. I very quickly found a group in CoM (they must be short bards there, wink wink) and their puller left so I volunteered. Excited like Cartman was in Casa Bonita to visit his favorite old rides again, I began to pull mobs out of the temple near the zone line. But as any precarious tale goes, we soon we ran out of mobs and began negotiating pathways that would hopefully lead to more mobs, like any good 'Murican would. You must understand back in the day CoM on live was mostly deserted when I was there and that was mostly just for the reavers anyway, so I never really took much of the zone in besides that awesome huge temple and walkway up in the sky which were bad-ass back then. My ignorance is quickly leading to my downfall as you will see!
Now, I wont contest mobs were stolen, if they were claiming those then fine, but it was an honest mistake. So I had no idea what was camped, what the camps were called, etc, and I admit in my excitement I was a little liberal in my exploration and pulling. The first 'stolen' mob I pulled disappeared on the way back, I first thought maybe it glitched out, that it got ganked from my pull or maybe I pulled someone's camp. If the latter, I certainly wasn't going to repeat the affair. More importantly, as common sense dictates, if they were willing to perform what appears to be an act of KSing themselves, they surely have the ability to warn me if they can? or at least the zone directly, that the last gel was theirs? Right? guys?
Things were nice and quiet so after doing a local search of the most familiar terrain in order to grab respawns, and finding none, I went back to the land of the infamous gels and tried again, found one and pulled it (he admits it!). Before the group had fully engaged the second gel, ninjawar comes over telling us 'anyone who touches that mob is banned' or something to that effect. We kill it fairly fast, I'm sure most of my group was dumbfounded, but I recognized what he must have been referring to, so I started to apologize/see what the guy's deal was. But by the time the mob was dead, he had made his spiel and run off already. During the combat he had said he had submitted a petition and we're all in big trouble! Then, not even 15 whole seconds after the mob dies, as I begin typing out ninjawar a tell to open treaty negotiations and begin to parley, Lirin appears on the corpse of the mob.
While the group was still confused about what ninjawar was talking about, Lirin says in effect in /say: "Yeah I saw the KS %t and i'm going to suspend you for 7 days". I sent him one message to the effect of "uhh can you hear me out?" and all I got back was "sorry" then my poor bard was floating into the ether.
So it's funny in a sad way if you think about that ninjawar said absolutely nothing to me in tells, say or /ooc or anything else, except for his angry burst of "You're all banned, you're so banned!" or whatever angry riff he wrote in /say. Neither did the GM send me any tells except for one word. This whole timeline from mob #1 engaged to suspended took maybe 3-4 minutes tops. Ninjawar's first line of communication was in effect "hey asswipe, you're so banned!", in /say no less, Lirin's first line was to the effect of "you're so suspended for 7 days!". That's some swift hard justice! I wonder if Abashi would being rolling in his grave (May he rest in peace) if he knew about this.
Anyway, besides GMs who may or may not be dispensing "justice" on their own behalf in blind rages or who have their friends nearby who will, you have another problem: You apparently have some players that will /"petition" at the drop of a hat without first even opening a line of dialogue with the other party. I never actually saw that behavior myself from normal players as I was leveling so I think it was probably just a particularly angry neckbeard in a tantrum with a pocket GM (or he is Lirin).
Me? I may be back one day, but for now i'll just be a drifter, knowing I did more in 2 weeks than I did in a year in '99, and I even helped spark some forum drama. My only regret was not getting to Vox, but this interruption was probably for the best. Peace out for now! Kudos to the team behind making p1999.