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Also Morkarion was *trying* to gank me. He couldn't kill me, even as I totally ignored him. I was just annoyed that he was making my bashing inefficient!
Good times. RIP Equinox.
I don't expect anyone who is fully invested and patriotic to do this.
Fairweather fighters will be fairweather fighters regardless of if they have loyalsays on or not.
Everytime I try to get out, they pull me back in.
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Greetings, Morticia.
You have likely come to paint me in an ill light, having suffered an unfortunate end, in part at my hands, and having been fed the bias of a bitter man, Morkarion. Despite this, I hope that you find truth in my words. I am sincere when I say that it was not my intent to cause harm unto you in the illithoid prison; I will offer explanation, of which I have recounted to many. This particular excerpt is what I have sent directly to the Dark Seneschal, who seeks recompense for a perceived transgression of the treaty between our nations.
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Morkarion had been antagonising me as I hunted in the illithoid prison on a few occasions. I recognise that this is regarded as a defensible territory to some of Glomdoring; to Morkarion, I even expressed my admiration for his tenacity, as ill-placed as I conceived it to be. The first time that Morkarion struck against me, I slew him, and as such, he earned the protection of the Avenger. For times after, I began to ignore Morkarion's attacks, unable to defend myself without incurring the Avenger's wrath, and I merely continued to hunt despite his nuisance. However, after continued aggression, I grew tired of his assault, and instead drew upon the resources about me in an act of self-defense. I selectively killed the illithoid, leaving the inner worms to attack without discrimination. That is, I imposed the same risk unto myself, to suffer the wrath of the worms, in order to strike against Morkarion. For a time, this tactic proved to ward him away; I slew the worms and completed my hunting.
During the incident where Morticia perished, Morkarion gave his warning and proceeded to attack me. I again began to leave the worms, but he would not be deterred. At the time, I was aware of Morticia's presence in the prison, but she was a long distance from our skirmish. I had assumed Morkarion had notified his comrade of his declared assault or, in the very least, the danger she was in, as he was surely aware of what I was doing. In a previous instance, he had even expressed concern that Morticia, who was also in the area at an earlier time, was in danger, though I knew she had left when I began to leave the worms. However, in this instance, I had every reason to believe that she was aware.
Yet Morkarion would not cease, and I purposefully amassed many worms - more than I could keep track of. I drew them towards him, as he would not leave me be, and he began to run about the prison, in hopes that the worms would catch me before they did he. As time passed, unknownst to me, Morticia drew closer to us, and it was not until I had passed her on my way to Morkarion (note, he likely passed her first) that I had realised she was in danger. It was at that time that I had alerted Morkarion that she may befall an unfortunate accident, though there was not enough time. She soon after crossed the path of the worms, and in their voracious nature, they twice slaughtered her.
I went back for her at my own risk. It was I, not Morkarion, who passed through the army of worms to retrieve her fallen corpse. I then tracked Morkarion down so he might take her to safety to be revived. I do not know whether he did, and only seem to recall him continuing to attack me.
Simply, the accusation that I led the worms to Morticia is entirely inaccurate. I did not seek to cause her harm; if I did, I certainly had more direct means. As such, it would be wildly inappropriate for me to give her a "one minute warning" when I was in fact not attacking her. It was by circumstance of being in a hostile environment that she was slain. If anyone is to blame, it is Morkarion, for initiating such hostilities and not warning his comrade of the danger she was in, despite ample opportunity and foresight. One could even suppose that he led them to her himself, as I was following in his footsteps.
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To you, Morticia, I will not apologise for what happened, as I do not perceive myself at fault. I certainly regret that you were harmed due to the recklessness of Morkarion and the volatile nature of the inner worms. I regret that I had thought Morkarion to be an honourable man. I did not believe that he would put you in harm's way, nor did I think he would be such a coward as to twist the events to absolve his own blame. That said, I do apologise for not contacting you sooner, as you do deserve the truth.
In hindsight, I should have offered you warning, but I was merely acting out of my own self-preservation. I wished to inflict harm unto Morkarion, justice for his attack against myself, and as such, I did not wish you to alert others to our skirmish, nor join him in defense. I was too focused upon avoiding the inner worms and tracking Morkarion that I did not mind your own movement within the area.
As you may have noticed, you have been granted Avenger's protection against myself, as the Oneiroi believed your death to require some compensation. I will not be using the worms to my advantage in the future, and so you need not be wary of me. Whether you wish to believe my story or otherwise is entirely up to you, but I have said my peace, and I will not attempt to contact you further. If you have further questions, I invite you to inquire to me directly.
Respectfully,
Lady Kelly McCloud
Pointing out griefers may be an irrelevant point to make, but if Silvanus is trying to make an appeal to us being generally nicer to each other, well...we are. We're kind of forced to by the egregious xp loss from dying in enemy territory, and people don't feel the same zeal against other orgs than previous years.
Intriguingly, that also correlates with the game's depression so far. Less conflict means less interested players. I'd say we all should be working to be more passionate and zealous in our dealings with others. More Taevyns and Baelfyres and people rallying behind them.
Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
Its attitudes like this that I am calling out: "Magnagora isn't some innocent little flower. There are clear-cut reasons why people feel it's okay to grief you."
This is the first I have heard of Meliana quitting over Leolamins. As far as I knew, he didn't single anyone out - he just looked at affiliation and went looking for fun.
As to that scrying issue...I remember it well. You had it on him over and over for about a RL hour. That spam is annoying as hell. And well all know what the admin think of issuing over scrying spam, don't we? But we all agree it's obnoxious.
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(I do happily accept tags of bitch, psycho and so forth.)
Please wait until bardics come out and read my work.
Ixion tells you, "// I don't think anyone else had a clue, amazing form."
Narsrim. Munsia. Glomdoring had just opened. Viravain said "bleep off" to Magnagora, after the Fain debacle. The only other orgs were Celest and Serenwilde, who were like "eww, taint, get it off!"
Sooo, yeah.