So here I am, sitting in Port Jeuno delivering stuff to mules, when suddenly... BAM! I get D2'd to my new HP - jail!
(Hmmm.) I say. Spacious room, no doors, very short hallway... nowhere to go. I think to myself, 'Self, what do I do?'
Alt-5 = (flee)! I mean what the hell right? If I can pull off some sort of insanity plea to the GM's as I run around the room wildly, flailing my arms... smiling at the floor... yelling at the Ash Club in my inventory... hey, maybe they'll let me off easy.
Well that didn't work. All job abilities are disabled in prison. Slimy pricks...
Then 'the voice' comes booming over the loudspeaker (well actually, it was just the GM talking in /say, but she wasn't in the room so it felt like a loudspeaker).
"CmdrFly..." it bellows, trailing off at the end like a ghost calling out to it's next victim.
"All your base are belong..."
Here's what she actually said.
That was the end of it. My beloved shell, filled with members I've known since day 4 or 5, was destroyed. No longer was there a grey ball by my name. I would never again enjoy random people (/slap)ping and (/sigh)ing after examining me and seeing PimpsWithBigNuts under my equipment.
A little piece of me died that day. If anybody here was affected by the event on September 12th 2003, then you know exactly how I felt.
I returned to Jeuno following the tragedy, and met up with some of our senior members to discuss possible names for the new shell. Since I'm currently working towards a Haubergeon, I did not want to waste 8k on a new LS that would be similarly destroyed in a few weeks - so, as any drunken hippie Canadian would do, I called a GM myself to ensure the new names were ok.
There's three things I would like to point out before I hit that doofy Submit button:
1. When you're in jail, noone can hear you scream. Or talk. I told the GM I was going to warn my LS members, and she neglected to inform me that nobody can read anything I type while I'm in jail. LSchat, party chat, even tells... nothing. I didn't realize this until I was back in Jeuno.
2. Daryus, my good RDM buddy who I use and abuse for his healing, suggested (as you can see in the second pic) SwastikaNaziF_cks. He was joking. I didn't PS his name out because, honestly, why? We were joking around... and hell, you should see some of the names I suggested previous to that... thank god that chatlog only shows so much. >.>
3. I'm still trying to explain to some low-level members of the shell that we weren't trying to nudge them out of the shell; since I was silenced in jail, I couldn't warn them before breaking the pearls. Thanks Chigrrl, you're swell!
I won't attack the person that called the GM on me. If that name offended them, then I understand. Now, on a completely unrelated (but 100% related in an unrelated way) note, does anyone know who Flood is? S/he was following us around and being really really annoying while we were doing drk AF2 in Ordelles. If someone can defend his/her status on the server in a positive way, I'll drop all negative thoughts in my mind of him/her.
Patience in one moment of anger can prevent a hundred days of sorrow. Having said that, is there any way I can challenge a GM to Ballista?
EDIT: So recently we've decided to merge a couple shells, PhoenxElite and Pimps. Not one to miss an opportunity to annoy a GM, I had to ask them if "Pimps" was offensive.
[GM]Alanone rules.
This marks the end of the saga, you won't have to come back here and read my rambling anymore. (See you again!)
(Hmmm.) I say. Spacious room, no doors, very short hallway... nowhere to go. I think to myself, 'Self, what do I do?'
Alt-5 = (flee)! I mean what the hell right? If I can pull off some sort of insanity plea to the GM's as I run around the room wildly, flailing my arms... smiling at the floor... yelling at the Ash Club in my inventory... hey, maybe they'll let me off easy.
Well that didn't work. All job abilities are disabled in prison. Slimy pricks...
Then 'the voice' comes booming over the loudspeaker (well actually, it was just the GM talking in /say, but she wasn't in the room so it felt like a loudspeaker).
"CmdrFly..." it bellows, trailing off at the end like a ghost calling out to it's next victim.
"All your base are belong..."
Here's what she actually said.
That was the end of it. My beloved shell, filled with members I've known since day 4 or 5, was destroyed. No longer was there a grey ball by my name. I would never again enjoy random people (/slap)ping and (/sigh)ing after examining me and seeing PimpsWithBigNuts under my equipment.
A little piece of me died that day. If anybody here was affected by the event on September 12th 2003, then you know exactly how I felt.
I returned to Jeuno following the tragedy, and met up with some of our senior members to discuss possible names for the new shell. Since I'm currently working towards a Haubergeon, I did not want to waste 8k on a new LS that would be similarly destroyed in a few weeks - so, as any drunken hippie Canadian would do, I called a GM myself to ensure the new names were ok.
There's three things I would like to point out before I hit that doofy Submit button:
1. When you're in jail, noone can hear you scream. Or talk. I told the GM I was going to warn my LS members, and she neglected to inform me that nobody can read anything I type while I'm in jail. LSchat, party chat, even tells... nothing. I didn't realize this until I was back in Jeuno.
2. Daryus, my good RDM buddy who I use and abuse for his healing, suggested (as you can see in the second pic) SwastikaNaziF_cks. He was joking. I didn't PS his name out because, honestly, why? We were joking around... and hell, you should see some of the names I suggested previous to that... thank god that chatlog only shows so much. >.>
3. I'm still trying to explain to some low-level members of the shell that we weren't trying to nudge them out of the shell; since I was silenced in jail, I couldn't warn them before breaking the pearls. Thanks Chigrrl, you're swell!
I won't attack the person that called the GM on me. If that name offended them, then I understand. Now, on a completely unrelated (but 100% related in an unrelated way) note, does anyone know who Flood is? S/he was following us around and being really really annoying while we were doing drk AF2 in Ordelles. If someone can defend his/her status on the server in a positive way, I'll drop all negative thoughts in my mind of him/her.
Patience in one moment of anger can prevent a hundred days of sorrow. Having said that, is there any way I can challenge a GM to Ballista?
EDIT: So recently we've decided to merge a couple shells, PhoenxElite and Pimps. Not one to miss an opportunity to annoy a GM, I had to ask them if "Pimps" was offensive.
[GM]Alanone rules.
This marks the end of the saga, you won't have to come back here and read my rambling anymore. (See you again!)
