It's nice to believe in things

[Silent]

That would make you a Queen if you were to lead dragons and the army of unsullied, Not princess.

[Agatha]

Originally Posted by Num1RecommendedByDentists [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yeah this basically sums me up

[Zade]

except you are not essential? <3

[Num1RecommendedByDentists]

zade..

[KabanazyTZ]

Originally Posted by Faerie Blossom [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When I finally decided to stop letting the low population scare me away from red, I came here with intentions of fighting the nefarious <Nihilum> tyrants. From an outside perspective, it definitely seemed as though they were the evil force cannibalizing the population and placing the health of the server's future in question. And they really might be doing this, though unintentionally.

I'd planned to apply to <Azrael> before I even made my character. Because I want to help kill dragons and gods, just as most EQ players do. It's an important part of the game, and I don't believe this makes me blue. You need that loot to kill those bad guys. But who are the bad guys? While leveling up, Azrael griefed me more than all the fungi twinks and immy healers combined. After having this happen a few times, and speaking with a few Nihilum members, I was mostly decided in applying to them.

But then I read all of this forum drama. And it wasn't just the usual trash talk that you find on pvp boards; these people had actually stripped gear, deleveled and deleted characters. Players like this Heartbrand are appalling, and have such senses of entitlement that I can't understand why any self-respecting guild would allow them to wear their tag.

I do this thing where I romanticize everything. Maybe it makes me a geek, but I guess I never got over being a weird debate kid in high school that did a lot of acid, played EQ and believed in things. Here in EQ, I'm a princess. My romanticized ideal princess. I won't get into what that means, but I can't join your guilds. Just as on VZ, while I attended their raids sometimes, I never could join Aduentus.

I have hopes of one day fighting "the good fight" here, but too much of what goes on (on all sides) is petty, immature and sometimes even immoral. There is no good fight; none of you act admirable or dignified. All sides are griefing the population away instead of nurturing it, and I'm convinced that a good many of you are masochists.

That's not to say that you all as individuals are like this. Many of you are wonderful people, and I'm glad to have met you. But it's up to the guild leaders to uphold certain standards, and they've chosen dragon loot over self-respect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=tE6WABOMvUo

I'm probably making this out to be a much bigger deal than it really is, but this is fun for me :P

"Maybe this life is overrated
But I won't let the world burn around me
A situation like this should never exist
Then why are we out of control"

Just remembered that I defended your honor princess.

[twistidmetal]

This is my experience as a new player on red99 over the past two months:

While I was leveling, Nihilum was the only guild remotely nice to me. Twainz, Node, and Strydur were all exceptionally cool to interact with. They would answer my questions and help out however they could.

I have been trained and griefed multiple times by out of range players. All of the griefers I have encountered were Azrael or affiliated with Azrael. All of the hate tells I got were Azrael. Most of the OOC trolls are sided with Azrael. I only know a handful of Nihilum that speak in OOC, and it's usually unbecoming bickering.

I had one positive interaction with Azrael. I got stuck in a sticky situation by waltzing in on an Azrael raid. They killed me initially, but they allowed me to "loot and scoot." That was really cool of them. I remember Noah and Brennard being really nice about it.

I have never been mad about PVP interactions. It sucks to get smacked around or blind sided while leveling, but that is the nature of PVP. What does bother me is griefing without reason, exploiting, and account stealing. Azrael and Nihilum push back and forth. Both sides cast stones. I don't know the whole situation. Most of these guys know each other from long before this server started. I can't really judge the situation.

To me, Players like Heartbrand are repercussions of people doing rotten things. Heartbrand has only ever been cool to me, but he can dish it out if he chooses. Honestly, sometimes it's nice to see Heartbrand push around the people who grief on a regular basis.

What matters to me is player interactions. Who seems like a nice guild to group and raid with? I had to go with Nihilum. I'm sure Azrael has some cool people, but I haven't met them.

TL;DR: Both Azrael and Nihilum have done some crappy things. Most of these guys have the "they would do it to me" mentality, and they have had bitter interactions for years. Don't count out a guild because of the actions of a few. Take your experiences and decide what guild suits you. My guild is Nihilum.

[Tomato King3]

I really dont see faerie lasting very long here , she is very judgemental and has a problem realizing 90% of people on this server are mad and bad because they are terrible at life.

I even talked to her and she made me feel like i was a dick when i would never screw over anyone even a person i didnt like.

There are alot of evil people here and apparently she views herself as a saint, you wont last here sweetie.

It is what it is.

Both nihilum and azreal have alot of cool people , but both have toxic leadership and most of their members are stoned idiots or losers and have no direction , morals or shame.

My best advice is not to take this server very seriousley and focus on leveling up IRL like me , youll sleep like a baby.

[Something'Witty]

As a new player on red, I was also leaning towards applying to Azreal, mainly because I have a natural inclination to side with the "underdogs" (e.g. I was in Zeph from ToV to the guilds death back on VZ). However, my very brief interactions with the leadership of Azreal and Nihilum have made me reconsider.

The one time I met Nizzar, he was very pleasant to chat with and did out of group DPS, basically power leveling my wife and I for ~20 mins. On the other hand, the only time I have interacted with Lite, he was griefing us by highsun'ing every mob we pulled, which subsequently trained my wife after he zoned the agro.

Now, I know these might be two isolated incidents and not representative behavior of both individuals / guilds as a whole, but my point is, first impressions matter.


P.S. I am reminded of the old idiom: you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

[Terpuntine]

Lots of mad trannies in this thread

[Agatha]

tldr, they where nice to me on a red box. i want to be with the carebears. l0l