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A perfectly civilized topic about Holywars
Iosyne
the Lair
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Now for the real reason I clicked this thread:
People who use ignore to avoid perfectly valid IC situations. Especially situations that -you- caused through one method or another. When you have half your city leadership ignored, chances are you were being corrected for a reason and not just being trolled.
My rages:
- People assuming things I do are some sort of metagaming or me being a bitch RL. Declaring a holy war IC and then being told OOC "This is why people hate you" is just not fun, and it makes me wonder why I even play this game sometimes. WoW may be far less immersive, but everyone in my guild likes me and that's far more enjoyable to log in to.
- Weird and creepy alts (or maybe multiple people? I dunno) who get all sorts of slimy inquisitive and constantly clingy about how I am, what I'm doing, where I am, can I take them bashing, can I come hang out with them, can they be my "personal assistant" - it's really offputting (not you @toz >_>). I am not sure if it's one person who just keeps making alts or if there is just a procession of mildly stalkerish people I keep dealing with.
- Burning myself by spilling (scalding hot) oil on my forearm and leg. I might end up being MIA, depends how this heals.
Just saying, for the sake of accuracy.
And you know my pants on comment was funny. You know it was!
For clarity, I am not the one who told Moirean this is why people hate her. Since that made it seem like it was me.
Sad face for burns.
That's about the exact time it takes for things to be not all that fun anymore when the combatants outnumber you two to one. :P
To the heart of the matter: I rage at @Iosyne for holding Roderick over my head, even though I fudged up terri-bad and lost the poor bugger. I rage at @Slyphe for threatening Trager with yet another one-legged woman!
I love that positions of power give you the perfect excuse to not -need- an excuse in order to flex your proverbial muscles a bit. When I grow up, I want to be just like this!
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
It also kind of bugs me (and this was a problem I had with the war system when it existed) that order wars can quickly become an exercise in who can go without sleep the longest. I know most people in Slyphe's order have jobs and had to go to bed, and then go to work the next day. I wake up this morning and there's STILL people from Iosyne's order defiling that were around for a good while the night before. It kind of feels like the system punishes people for not being around for having to sleep or holding a full-time job and not being able to be around 24/7 when stuff happens.
Now, the silly, childish, tantrum-induced reasoning for this Holy War aside, (I feel that horse may have already been beaten enough as is) if you have the decency to start a war for little to no reason, at least work towards ending it in a timely fashion. If you have literally zero opposition awake, or willing to go kamikaze run against overwhelming numbers, then at least continue on with the defiling. When there are roughly 5-6 order members awake, and each and every one can be found inside their city for near an hour, it makes you wonder what the purpose behind simply continuing the debacle is even for.
Get out there, y'all! You wanted them shrines, you sure as hell won't get to begrudge me watching you take down each and every one with boring, painstaking slowness.
/cracks whip. Yah!
EDIT:
There's also the fact that most of the people I saw dying last night are typically non-coms but because they were thrown into an Order war were doing their best to help. And 4-7 vs 1 odds for someone who doesn't typically fight are going to discourage any sort of response, even if the Order of PK (Io's order) does slack off a bit and let them see a false ray of hope. At this point I'll agree with Trager and say it would have been better to end it last night while people were sleeping. Beating a dead horse is silly.
Even Benedicto, who logged in via phone was kind of like, "Uh, wtf? Well this is -stupid-." Kind of mimicking what everyone else was thinking over this entire farce of a conflict. It's tough to try and stay true to your character, when YOU know he should be out facerolling into them over and over again, when in reality I know as a player it only really feeds both exp/ego. Do us all a favor, I suppose, and just end this horrible excuse for RP as quickly as possible, lest it just turn into something griefy for us to deal with for x amount of days.
I think the point is, it's like. Ok. Was fun for an entire day, we're obviously not winning. This isn't a lesser that you can extend by a few minutes by not extracting. There is -no- valid excuse for not pursuing it when people are off just because you want to 'give everybody a chance'. No, Moirean. Everybody got to play. Don't ruin people's -week- by dragging it out. Especially the periods where two or three of us are awake and forced to deal with what has become a headache versus a role play conflict ( that isn't even really a well thought out RP conflict hashtag coughsillyreasonstodeclare hashtag wasntinsultingspinesreach hashtag iosyneisntevenspinesreachdivineadvisory hashtag letchakandashmerandtinafighttheirowndight hashtag theyknowthe valueofafewfunskirmishes ).
The problem isn't you. You're playing your character, and you play a psychotic representative of a psychotic Goddess who needs no real reason to do whatever she wants well. The problem is just the system itself, which is what it is because it's better than nothing and all we have.
Let's not turn this silly and just finish it up. It was fun, let's not ruin it by turning it into grief and headaches.
It's also kinda frustrating that you guys are just throwing your hands in the air and citing "more firepower" - for example, if you think you need a hood to be able to find and stop defiling, then you guys are not using all of your resources available. The only person in our order with a hood is Mazzion (and Ilyon but he didn't show up until like an hour ago), yet somehow I managed to always find Kerryn defiling.