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Ok. My second post was intended as my last post here, but I feel like people keep misrepresenting me. I'm going to tell everyone first and foremost, if I do a thing, I'll own up to it. IE yep, I have defile aura a lot. However, and this is something that CZ brought to my attention recently with his post and later admitted to me himself, people seem to be putting a lot of things on me that I HAVE NEVER SAID OR DONE. I put that in all caps for emphasis. Cz literally admitted to me in tells when I approached him, and in his last post here as well, that his view was coloured. In tells he said "I placed what other shadow players have done before on you." I'm going to be very clear. I play Whirran, and that's it. This seems to be prevalent, because the last two pages and more have various instances of people claiming that I did x or y or that I don't want x or y. If you're going to post about me or at me, don't misrepresent me. Here's how things are.

1: I have never said, nor will I ever say, that I don't want conflict. If the way I play my character hasn't told you how much I enjoy conflict, I don't know what will. That being said, I can piss multiple people off and still not try fighting 1v6. It's not like, oh I made this person mad, I better not make anyone else mad today! There are a lot of claims of me wanting conflict but then not wanting conflict. There is a stark difference between wanting conflict and letting folks gank me 6 deep at will. I'm not going to sit there and accept being ganked just because I made you mad, I'm still going to try and get away. If you take that as me "not wanting" conflict, that's on you. Also next time I jump you please sit down and let me bbt if you "don't want" conflict as well.

2: I have never taken pk that happened in the Vortex or the Fracture outside of either area. Sryaen, you never asked me or had any interaction with me, you just ran to the forums and posted. Potentially, from the time of that post, while we were actually still fighting. Pk in the vortex and the fracture does not auto nullify any and all cause you had on you previously. You've helped gank me at a Bama sermon. You've helped gank me while I'm defiling Haern shrines, Omei shrines, and while I'm raising Bama shrines. You were looking to play the victim and use the fact that we did fight in Fracture as a crutch to get there. Here's the full picture, for folks who care.

3: Saltz, I was going to respond to you by simply posting the link to our fight where you died to standing axekick in less than two minutes, but I don't have access to it anymore, evidently. A shame, that. I'm not scared of you or of anyone, much as you'd like to inflate your own ego. I fight and lose plenty. I'm not going to fight you and your friends simultaneously just to prove to you that I'm fearless. That's absurd. Also if you want to claim I have "no cause" maybe don't call me a coward in tells and talk a whole bunch of other shit and then go afk fish. Just my two cents, you might die less that way. And be less salty.

4: Eaku, I have defiled a lot of shrines. I've never defiled Ethne though! Nothing big to say here, just a quick clarification. Isn't her vessel an ogre? Ogre represent.

I believe in hard lines drawn in the sand regarding PvP and think those lines shouldn’t be allowed to be smudged. I know some think that those lines aren’t being smudged, but I do.

This might be unpopular, but justifying behaviour that negatively impacts players beyond the in-character consequences around, “it’s my roleplay” or “my God told me to” doesn’t make you anymore a competent role player - it makes you a dick.

In that same exact vein, shouting inanely and ganking random noncoms/lower-tiers that shout back doesn’t make you a villain, it makes you a dick. Being a villain is about enriching the story of others, not about seeing how much you can get away with and then excusing everything with the, ‘but I play a villain’ card.

Honesty if I have to have read another forum-lawyer post that essentially reads out, ‘sorry, but I realise a few people might actually dislike this avenue or may not be having fun but in the way I read the rules, I’m completely within my rights and as a RoLePlAyEr’. Just calm down a minute, Mr. Aetolia. I don’t think I can offer anything else here beyond I disagree with how far you’ve taken this and I disagree harder with how hard you are going to justify it.

Nah, I kept getting sneezes while I was running around a couple areas where Sryaen or Valorie were hunting, so I think I was being auto targetted on alertness maybe?

It was alertness callouts, and Sryaen thinking you were following him briefly.

Also I don't think Sheryni is saying "you shouldn't Xv1 people in open pk zone" but instead saying it'd probably be more fun to be even fight, and may or may not be a shared sentiment between others. Which I mean ---

The issue is that fun is objective, not subjective. What is fun for you is not necessarily fun for everyone else. That is why we generally need to rely on rules as written and if there is uncertainty, issuing yourself to ask isn't a terrible option.

"What's fun for you might not be fun for someone else" is the very definition of subjective, Xavin. Not objective.