The Old and The Quick 9:32pm EST - Khali

The Zone posted some new top 10s recently. Our own Miko K-sun tied for 9th in Quickness with 230 and 8th in Unarmed at 350. Del Cabon has the highest HG quickness with 250 and Cannibal has the highest UA on HG with 375. Surprisingly the highest UA on any server was on Solclaim which has been around the shortest period of time.

Miko also sent this to the list regarding his age.

00.00.10.2430.r Portal:compiled Wed Sep 06 07:36:30 2000 : Release
Welcome to Asheron's Call
You are now level 64!
You have 1,423,593 experience points and 2 skill credits available to
raise skills and attributes.
You will earn another skill credit at level 65.
Your Vassals have produced experience points for you. Taking your skills
as a leader into account, you gain 231,988 xp.
Movarl is logged on.
You have played for 1mo 26d 13h 25m 14s.
You've died 241 times.

see carebear ... almost never die...

Wow, thats a lot of hours logged in. For comparison sake, TSS recently sent around that he was at 1mo, 11d. Congrats to Miko on the notoriety well deserved for all those hours he's spent on his character. Next, he'll have to tell us the level and @age of all his other chars so I can be crushed by the reality that his seventh best character is probably better than my best.

-Khali

Projected Tree 4:54pm EST - The Silent Spearman

Current Tree

TSS	Druss	Dhali	Zak'Nafein	Kumo Miyamoto
		Mizu-No	Elron	Natalie Portman
	Sister C	Chinook	Herrimone
		Drake Draco	Mhali
			Sensai
	Acid Sin	Dark Arkon
	Fletch McGee	Nicolas Easter	Ash-Raven
		Erie
		Oberion
		Khali
		Yhun Zhau-Khan
	Tek'a
	Elerain Keuldan
	Golden Pestilence (unsworn)
	Bled for Days (unsworn)
	Fingulfin (unsworn)

TENTATIVE November Reorg Projected Tree

TSS	Fletch McGee	(any November n00bs)
	Druss	Dhali	Chinook	Herrimone
				Oberion
			Zak'Nafein	Kumo Miyamoto
				Erie
		Mizu-No	Nicolas Easter	Ash-Raven
				Khali
			Elron	Natalie Portman
				Bled for Days
	Sister C	Acid Sin	Dark Arkon	Tek'a
				(empty slot)
			Yhun Zhau-Khan	(empty slot)
				(empty slot)
		Drake Draco	Sensai	Fingulfin
				Golden Pestilence
			Mhali	Pedro
				(empty slot)

This is just a very loos projection, and the November reorg will obviously require a lot of planning and input from people. The main issue is sneaking Acid into the tree, since under our rules he can't be my direct vassal forever. In addition, Dark Arkon is 4th tier here, but I'm thinking I might want to put him in the 5th tier if that is ok with Acid (and even that idea may change as we get to know Dark better)

Some potential problems with this tree:

-Herrimone is tier 5... this means Nicolas Easter can't swear to her without being tier 6 and without Ash-Raven being in the non-existant tier 7..(there WILL BE NO tier 6 or 7, no exceptions)
-Chinook gets dropped a tier because Acid has to fit into the tree SOMEWHERE...it was either him or Dhali, Drake or Mizu. Dhali has already been dropped a tier in a previous reorg, Drake is too high level to drop, and Mizu under Druss was a special assignment, so I went with Chinook. Even so it might not be an ideal situation considering his vassals are now tier 5, see above.
-Pedro is in the tree and I'm not sure if he even want to be a part of it (though I'm sure we all want him to be)
-Tek'a spends most of his time on HG which means that his presence in the actual XP portion of the tree (rather than just as my direct vassal so he gets the Source name on him) might be inappropriate.
-This tree assumes that everyone in mentioned will be LV 30 by the reorg and out from under Fletch, this may or may not be the case.
-This tree assumes that Yhun Zhau-Khan still plays...I have not heard from him in ages and when I see him online he has tells turned off so I'm not sure.

Give me some feedback and alternative scenarios if you see a problem. Thanks in advance.

TSS

Dr. Seuss is Radically Anti 4:45pm EST - Oberion, Rojon

Ahem.

To quote the great author and poet, Dr. Oberion
from his master work, "I am anti", Second Verse,
Second stanza:

I will kill them when they mule.
I love to loot them, I'm no fool.

Frank (Oberion)
I will kill them when they're red.
Every PK's better off dead.

Umm. If this is irritating anyone I can stop.

--- In [removed], " Draco" <bigred_dragon@h...> wrote:
> We are Radically Anti.
> We kill murderers
> Murderers get no rest
> We will kill them until they have 40% vitae and are naked
> we will kill them while lagging
> We will kill them while muleing
> We will kill them while questing
> We will kill them while leveling
> We will kill them while shopping
> We will kill them while resting
> Murderers get no rest

We kill them when they're bad
We kill them when they're sad
We kill them on the plains
We kill them on the trains
We kill them when they lag
We loot them with a bag
We kill them when they 'stone
And even far from home
We kill them for their ham
We kill them Sam I am

:)

Caulnalain - Good shadow hunting Thurs night!! 4:43pm EST - Barack

I just happened to stumble across a party gathering in the Nanto meething hall, preparing to hit the Caulnalain Vault. Sounded like they've been doing the same thing several of us have been, hunting
shadows trying to get Caulnalain keys. A few of them already had theirs. I asked if I could go, even w/out a key, because I figured it would be good to check out the Vault.

One of them was tied to the exit portal of the Vault itself, so he summoned and off we went. I tied there, so if somone big buffs me, I might be able to summon for someone else. It's a little tricky
getting in, you have to be jumping forward at full strength, because the entrance portal opens over a small pit.

There were Shadows, Lieuts and Pans. We found a very good spot in a hallway between 2 rooms, not far in at all. In one room spawned a Lieut and a couple Shadows, in the other the Pan and a couple
Shadows. The timing was quite good, long enough to rest but not long enough that you got bored. Also the spawns seemed to be offset so usually we never had to face more than about 3 at a time. I was with 5 others, all around 34-35, so I was the little guy. There were only a few deaths.

We didn't get any keys, gut it was a good spot, good time, etc. etc. I don't know how the run there is, but on ACExplorer it doesn't look too far from the Crater, if you can get there.

BTW, a couple of them were part of the Chosen Allegiance, based out of Nanto. Seemed like a good group of people.

Red Devil no more!! 9:19pm EST - Kumo

This just in from www.Darktide.org Red Devil swears to BLOOD!!!

This is starting to look alot like Siege Perilous from UO now. All the Major PK factions are combining into one BIG one.

When this happened on Siege, about 5-10 smaller Anti Alliegances had to combine efforts to thwart GC's(Guardian's Chosen) constant raids and holding of dungeons.

Will this happen in Darktide??

Kumo

A word on Og 10:02pm EST - Chinook

Og is a coward.
Og is a villian.
Og is a beast.

There is no denying any of this.

But looking beyond this there is more to be said.

Og is the bad guy you love to hate.
Og's presence on DT increases my enjoyment of DT.

I don't aspire to just stand toe to toe with Og.
I aspire to to run him down and bury him every time he comes on my
radar.
I aspire to be as hard or even harder to kill.

Please note that Og didn't raid and run "away".

Og was raiding and running. Period.

Og continued killing even with upwards of a dozen pursuers.
In Og's world, Og was winning.

Og was able to slay indiscrimanantly and ran circles, literally,
around us when ever we closed.

Og circled Yanshi over and over.

In fact, it was almost becoming comical as some of Yanshi's citizenry
were killed 2 and 3 times during the SAME chase.

Let's also not forget that Og did take down The Catt, Zak and
Testertips (that was a hoot, Testertips had me vulned and drained and
thought he had a chance of getting me until Og latched onto him).

He will take on people of significant level, mostly because Og
doesn't ID his victims, he just hits, often they die, if not, he runs.

Of course I hate Og for the blood he's shed.
I remember how enraged a very young nube named Jit was when he saw
the level of his killer Og. This was months before Chinook was born.

The rub is that now I enjoy hating Og.

Chinook

Impious Staff For Two 9:56pm EST - Farik Il'Kadar

Tonight, Farik, Nansense, and Elske performed Chapter 3 of the Impious Staff epic.
(Chapter 1 was getting the Broken Staff, Chapter 2 was getting Ore out of Colier).

Of course to watch us perform, you'd think we were auditioning for the Keystone Cops.

Chapter 3, tonight, was the Mite Maze, where the Smelting Pot is obtained. The same person who gives the Pot also gives the finished staff.

Fortunately, there was someone else there tonight, who knew the way and needed a lockpicker.
Once we were there, we realized that one of the people needing the staff had forgotten their ore.

After much logging of characters, and recalling to various lifestones, we got the slag made, and returned Nansense and Elske to the Mite Maze. Therein we got the staves made and there was much rejoicing, before everyone logged and headed for bed.

To Conquer the Caulnalain Vault 9:36pm EST - Elske

Let's take this place Source style. I'd like to organize a group to go and take the place and defeat the crystal. It is restricted for levels 26-35 only. From what I gather it is mostly Shadows: lieuts, panumbris and some special breed Shadow.

Anyway, the first step is to get everyone keys to get into the second half of the dungeon. The keys can be picked up from Shadow Lieuts, Panumbris and maybe Umbris. I picked up one on Saturday morning so the drop rate must be fairly high since I NEVER get much love from these drop-type quests. The keys are not exchangable so if you are hunting with someone and already have a key then don't pick it up.

I think the plan should be to wait a week or more until everyone who wants to go can get a key. I'll help anyone hunt down Shadows to get a key. Once we have the keys we can pick a time/date.

So who is interested and who is between levels 26 and 35? Here is everyone I could think of that might be between these levels.

Elske
Astura al'Azif
The Cisco Kid
Nansen (!)
Hiya Aokawa (!!)
The Legend (!!!)
Stylgar
Barack
Boomstick (?)
Mikko
Ling Poh
Fun Chow
Tim the Enchanter (level 35 right? don't level yet!)
Manwe
Cyblade Jr
Blast Jr

I know that I am forgetting people so please speak up if I missed you. From the looks of the list we'll be hurting for mages.

K o S m O s 9:44pm EST - Druss

I get a message from Movarl, experimenting on DT.

"Kosmos is killing everyone in Nanto east, can you come kill him?"

Fly over there.

He hits me for zero three times while I smash him for 20, 15, 34, and he
steps back to heal

SUPER COMBO!!!!

super crit at 3/4 life, and kill him in one hit.

I screwed up, and didn't get the chat log, but it made my day. :-)

Jamie C. Wakefield
Druss

Bloods Hate Me 8:41pm EST - Natalie Portman

I was in yanshi yesterday real late at night when i see a lvl 34 venger. I try to kill him but he runs to the yaraq portal and i am tired so i decide not to follow. I go back to town and see 3 white dots. I ID them and see that 1 of them is a lvl 23 Blood. SO as soon as she turns red I attack her. SHE DROPS A HIGH QUALITY INGOT!!!!!!! OMG I've been getting threatening messages from Blood's all day =) I just thought it was funny so i would share

Nat

Quest Completed on Darktide 4:59pm EST - Khali

At about 4pm EST today, this message came across all Darktide player's screens

Snik has shattered the Fenmalain Soul Crystal! The crystal's released energy ripples across the landscape of Dereth, causing fluxes along the island's ley lines!

Congratulations to Snik on the completion of the quest.

New Author Index Page 8:37pm EST - Khali

I just added a new page that lists all stories by author instead of the usual chronological ordering. I had always wanted to give some visibility to those who frequently contribute to the material on the site and I'd like to single out Drake Draco, Mizu-No, and Rojon for their numerous contributions. Look for your favorite authors here and thanks to all who have contributed material.

God Mode 3:36pm EST - The Silent Spearman

Anyone seen this yet? Runcasting brought to new heights?

"God Mode", they call it.

Achtepa was chasing me today. He CAST HIS BUFFS while he was catching up to me. I'm not sure what I think of this yet, except that it scared the heck out of me.

I attacked him while he was unbuffed, but Mage Crimson was there and I had to run...Achtepa gave chased...and I heard him say "Malar Ealoi"

"Good", I thought, "he is stopping to buff. I will be home free."

He didn't get any farther away from me.

"That's strange."

Was it a fizzle? I couldn't see so I didn't know. He went on to cast about 3 other buff spells, all while running after me, and all with no visible effect on his speed.

Then I heard him say "Cruath Quaguz". Fire Vuln. I expected his red dot to drop off of the edge of my screen as he cast it. But it didn't. I got lit up with Fire Vuln V, and he was still gaining.

Then he started laying in with Slowness, Weakness, and Leaden Feet V. His red dot never dropped back to cast any of them. Keep in mind that I was running full tilt this whole time.

This is an interesting new development for the world of PvP, to say the least.

I managed to portal out before he killed me.

TSS

Let me be the nth to say: New Quests Blow 3:36pm EST - Farik Il'Kadar

I think the thing we need to bear in mind is, *almost all* quest items suck.
There are a few exceptions.
Prenerf GSA.
Post-nerf GSA is nice armor, although IMO not worth the effort of hunting/trading for all the crack.
Composite (x)Bow
Atlan weapons (some of them anyway ;)
SoCS (as long as you only want one, heh heh)
Impious Staff is cool, in that it's no-drop.

However, many *quests* are very cool.
If you follow the Lore even a little, there is a great backstory going on. Lots of history and lore in this game. New clues revealed all the time.

Think how cool it would have been to be the first person to figure out how to get to Frore. Even now, it would be a great quest to figure out, if you never read a spoiler on the web, and had to assemble all the clues yourself. The dungeon is quite beautiful, although not exactly filled with dire critters. And the loot at the end isn't that great either. But that didn't keep me from going 2 1/2 times.

If I had a non-gimped character in the 50 - 60 level range, I would probably consider the Shendolain dungeon to be fun. The graphics were cool, solving the dungeon is apparently something of a challenge, and the critters are scary. Kudoes to all who get to the next stage.
(since I'm a gimped 44th level melee, I consider it to be impossible rather than fun, but that's my problem)

We're in the midst of doing the Impious Staff quest right now. Imagine if we were doing it ourselves, instead of reading spoilers off the web. The real reward would be that we figured out the quest. Never mind that the quest item itself is only semi useful. And then only if you're a Gharu mage. The quest itself is the fun part. When we finally found the ore last night, did you not feel a little thrill of exhilaration? Will you not feel a similar charge when we get those smelting pots? How about when we go back to Colier for the Lifegiver?

Face it folks, the quests are where the fun is. Atlan and GSA and Composite 'quests' are no fun, because it's just a bunch of trophy-collection and skill checks.

Before the GSA debacle, there wasn't so much bitching about quest items, because no one knew that better things could exist. Now we do, and we BMG till the cows come home.

Now don't get me wrong, I would be drooling over the quest shield if it were actually uber. But I am going to want to do Shendolain somday, just to do it.
Of course that day is far in the future, when I have a character who has a prayer of pulling his weight. And I'm afraid Farik never will be that character. But that's another topic altogether :)

Well I hope this didn't come off as a rant or a chastisement. I just want to share my opinion that there is a lot of work going into the quests themselves, and people as a group (myself included) tend to get too focused on the rewards.

Trip to get Major Sparking Stone A Success 9:49am EST - Khali

The trip to get Lightning Stones for everyone was a success. Thanks to Oberion for good preparation and thanks to all for a fun quest. Druss, Sis, Drake, Zak, Chin, Kumo, Erie, Mhali, Senator Lifestone and myself camped the stone room and got stones for all who wanted. Chin died to a Rav on the run there (!?!) and somehow we all survived the last leg of the run past tuskers, obsidian golems, and shadows (see some pics here). The vault itself was mostly just confusing and except for one spawn where none of us had buffs on, the camping went very smoothly.

Turbine, you stupid fuc#s! Design a God damn good quest! 9:45am EST - Movarl

Okay lets review the Shendolain quest we have this month.

1. Dungeon is uber hard and no one person could get through it alone.
2. Last part dungeon is fairly easy -- 2 Bone Lord, 1 Ashen, 1 Cursed 2 Dark, 1 Diamond, 2 Plasma, and thats it!.
3. There is once more a single person per server item. I know they said it was repeatable, and it is. The item that comes off the Shendolain Soul Crystal is no-drop, and is unique as it has better effects then those coming off the Shendolain Crystal. So in effect it is a one time quest.
4. The items you acquire off the Shendolain Crystal are utterly stupid. They seem nice at first, then you see value 20K then you find out they are droppable on death. Then you find out they are no-give. Which means you can't mule them, you have to die or sell 'em to get rid of them. On DT you know what this means? It means they will never ever complete the quest more then once. One person gets the shield or bow (Orb is pathetic!) from the soul crystal, because it is uber, and that's it.
5. Items are no-buff! 'Nuff said.
6. The frag dungeons that open up are worthless -- 16 Frags on a 15 Minute Timer. Pointless. Nice to know you can find them now without scouring the Dires, but as camped as the dungeon will be, no this was pointless.

You get the picture, they try to not make broken items, but create "just another dumb quest."

Jeff

Mizu Makes Top 10 Again 1:15pm EST - Khali

Also featured this month are the Top Ten Arcane Lore skills for each server, the highest of which is 302 by Madar al-Aziz on Harvestgain. Sheesh, and I was happy to have Khali at base 200! Click here to see all of the Zone's Top Ten lists.

-Khali

Zak's Comedy for tonight 9:57am EST - Zak'Nafein

This is not an actual transcript of what happened on my side, but its pretty close:

Your Brain tells you, "Try to imperil the Pan again"
You tell Your Brain, "k"
Your Brain tells you, "Um, wait a minute actually Zak is running away not tanking so first try to see if he needs a heal"
Your Brain tells you, "And watch out for that Shadow Lieutenant because he's probably around here somewhere"
Your Brain tells you, "Come on...target Zak already"
Your Brain tells you, "Hit the single quote key...you know the one...its under your fourth finger...thats it"
Your Brain tells you, "You suck at this, you know that?"
You tell Your Brain, "k"
Your Brain tells you, "Forget it, don't even bother to check the health, just target him and cast a heal already"
Your Brain tells you, "You remember how to heal don't you?"
Your Brain tells you, "You know you never Yielded that Pan so thats why that first Imperil never stuck."
Your Brain tells you, "My bad, I gotta remember that...its just I get so excited when there are tanks around and I don't have to worry about casting War spells or doing uber protect buffs"
You tell Your Brain, "just shut up...what am I doing now?"
Your Brain tells you, "Cast...cast...cast"
You say, "Cruath Quasith"
The magic surges through you
Your Brain tells you, "NONONONONO. Switch to the third spell bar first....ugh"
Your Brain tells you, "fizzle please?"
You cast Imperil IV on Zak'Nafein
Your Brain tells you, "Oh great...you friggin idiot"
Your Brain tells you, "Now I'm gonna get blamed for this. I can't stand working with you."
You say, "Oops"

-Chris (Khali)

New Dungy 9:48am EST - Nansense

Me, Farik, A-Chu and Rojon (plus Movarl and others) got into Evil Elvis's expedition. I got separated from the horde (at least 30 in one group) and found a diamond golem to send me back to AB. Never did find that body.

2nd trip, a great skel did the honors. Hunters Chase found that corpse for me and cleared the area.

Rojon and I tried to find my first for a while, Rojon died (twice), but we got both his corpses.

Apparently, EE's group got a gem at the bottom, somebody who didn't die should post details. I think it allowed ONE person to go to another dungeon. Could be wrong tho.

This place is seriously brutal, revenants are the weakest things, by far.

I'll be tied there for a little while, so anybody who wants a ride can have one. I'm not going back without some serious firepower.

Thanks to HC, Ping and Rojon for helping with my corpse problems.

Very tired, must sleep,

Ken
-Nansense

Jeff (Movarl)

Fat Larry Is In The Spirit Of The Olympics 9:34am EST - Rach' mann

Amperehelion Vault 6:21pm EST - Oberion

A small group of intrepid adventures will be taking on the Amperehelion Vault in an attempt to wrestle several Major Atlan Lightning Stones from the Tesla like grips of a plethora of horrible Electrical Elementals.

We will be meeting this Friday, 9/22 at 10:00pm EST at the Yanshi Mule Spot.

Does anyone need me to post the walk through link again?

Would anyone else like to attend…<cough..TSS..Acid Sin.. Chinook…cough>? Is everyone still in?

The plan is to have Draco summon a portal to the Black Dominion Dungeon at 10:10. We will then all buff and make the run to the Vault.

Stock up before hand. Don't forget your Acid Weapon and Lightning Protection.

Drake, are you tied to the Black Dominion Dungeon, yet. Also, I still need to find some lightning protections III pants/shirt. I can get my Arcane Lore up to 111, so any level III should work. Additionally, you may want to make the run to the Vault before hand to get a feel for the terrain. (Besides, you could possibly solo the Vault. <grin>)

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

See you Friday.

Frank (Oberion)

Current Participants:

Oberion Coordinator / Paladin
Drake Draco Transportation / Dragon / Forward Scout
Sister C Morale Booster / Broken Dagger Girl
Druss Superman / Forced to attend by his spouse
Kumo Unarmed Beating Machine / Will have Creature at ???
Zak'Nafein Quest companion / Archer / Mage / Elemental Bait
Erie Great lake / Cannon Fodder / Blue Dress & Yellow Fez
Mhali One shot killer / Sleepy adventurer
Chinook The Flash / Death from above
Nicolas Slow man on the team / Gimp Life Mage
Acid Sin Killer of Paladins / User of Acid

Looks like a good group. Anyone else coming?

The Major Sparkling Stone spawns every 16 min. How many of us are actually going to get a stone? Everyone? That would take us ~2 hours and 30 min.

I know that Oberion, Kumo, Sister C, and Zak want one, which is only 48 min. (don't count the first spawn time) Who else wants one? I'm willing to stay until everyone who wants one gets one. Remember, you only need one to power up both your Atlan weapon and Armor. Although there is a small chance of breakage if you switch them out of your weapon.

Also, We will be making the trip again for Herrimone, Sensai, and breakage.

Frank (Oberion)
PS - If I can keep enough of you online, I want to go for the SOLL afterwards. It looks pretty straight
forward for a strong group.

Broken Quests... 6:30pm EST - Rach' mann

ok this is my list am I missing any or incorrect?

Aerlinthe Keep undead portal goes nowhere

Mountain Fortress not spawning

BSD not spawning (not sure which)

Shadow spires missing or in wrong places

3 Towers (less you sneeze)

Or are there more???????????

rach' mann

was Darth Sidious is now GRRRRRRRRRRRRR... 7:03pm EST - Herrimone

Darth Sidious mangles you for 119 points of slashing damage!
Your death is preceded by a sharp, stabbing pain, courtesy of Darth Sidious!
Bael'Zharon has granted you respite after your moment of weakness. You are temporarily no longer a player killer.
You've lost 11 Pyreals, your Ivory Lightning Takuba, your Mana Stone (Greater), your Green Garnet Lightning Nekode, your Superior Helmet, and your Mana Stone (Greater)!

I hate this guy!
Pedro and I are completely unbuffed and don't give him a moments thoughts because, why?
HE WAS AT THE CITADEL WITH US, not 30 minutes before this happened!!

Venom Blade has sworn Darth Sidious permanently KOS I think we should as well...tired of his bs, anti one minute, pk the next

BTW, old gripe, notice what I lost? I lost my sword worth 2K (damn nice one too, sorry tss) however, I still have two swords worth 5k a piece. I guess I will never figure out how to protect my stuff...thought for sure I had it covered

Chinook, I am ready to for another helm...yer prolly tired of doing this, but I cant ever remember where to turn in dungeons. So if we could do this some time in the future...I will be your vassal forever :)

Should've went to bed a long time ago,
Herri

Fire Stone IS ON!!! 8:17am EST - A-Chu

YES! SUNDAY 2PM .. MAYOI MEETING HALL!

BE THERE DAMNIT!

Fight Night IV 12:45pm EST - Khali

Here are a few of the stories about last night's Fight Night IV:

• The Silent Spearman
• Drake Draco
• Zebediah (rojon)
• Elron
• Erie
• Nicolas Easter
• Chinook
• Acid Sin
• Oberion
• Tek'a

Fight Night IV 2:30pm EST - Zak'Nafein

Buffing rules: You are allowed 5 buffs + 1 for each additional school of magic

Fights will go for 5 minutes unless extended by me.

Prizes will be awarded.

And the Card for tonight:

Erie vs. Sensai

Kumo Miyamoto vs. Elron

Mizu-No vs. Natalie-Portman

Zak'Nafein vs. Drake Draco

Nicolas Easter vs. Chinook

Oberion vs. Ravenwood

The Silent Spearman vs. Acid Sin

Mhali and Herrimone vs. Sister C

(Vitae Break)

Druss, Sister C, and Chinook vs. The Silent Spearman, Acid Sin, and Mizu-No

Other fights may be added based on time and attendance

Thanks
David
aka Zak

Pics of our First Assault on Aerfalle's Keep 2:06pm EST - Nansense

You will find them at http://www.shawnandjulie.com/rojon/images

ASSAULT ON AERLINTHE'S UNDEAD CITY TONIGHT! 7:27pm EST - Rojon

Aerfalle's Keep or BUST

BE THERE.

ALOHA.

'Nuff said.

Rojon the Eternal Optimist

New Fauna -- Archers Note 12:45pm EST - Rach'mann

Slash seems to work best against the snails (I don't use elemental arrows unless absolutely necessary). I think they took the AI script straight off of virindi for these minus the magic. So.. bludgeon protection and they are cake. The few 'big' ones I found were all a single spawn so if you start your attack from a ways away they are fairly easy.

Slash also works well on spiders, The destroyers are rough on non- melee. I buffed with imp VI pierce bane V pierce pro V arm VI and still took 18-46 a hit (rimgar redsun says, heh 2 pts piercing damage, lol You say, punk). So if you are going to play with these take precautions-- you can do the good old shoot one run away come back and bring the one you shot solo, however once you kill it whatever friends are remaining all come loping up. The lesser ones are relatively easy as long as you wear electric and acid pros - tanked a spawn of 3 no problem.

Kitties seems to dislike piercing but only shot maybe 4 or so and only one large one so not too sure on these.........

rach' mann

Terrified Child: Lore? 12:05pm EST - Rojon

Even more surprising was the fact that there was an NPC in the bed!

Unlike other NPC's this one was even a child! I don't think I know of another Child in Dereth other than the unfortunate shadow children. When I clicked on this character it simply cried, seemingly hiding under the covers.

I tried giving it some milk from the local provisioner and a cookie Tracy had made for me and this seemed to calm it down a little. It started talking saying,

"What's wrong you ask? If only I could tell you."

I gave it some more milk and another cookie and it responded, "I'm afraid, so very afraid."

I gave it the last of my milk and cookies trying desperately to figure out what the problem was and after a pause it said,

"I see dyed people."

The Patch So Far 1:13pm EST - Rojon

Which is kinda nice.

People were complaining about the GameSpy article ruining the prop for them. I felt the opposite. We got some screen shots of stuff that we'd have learned about 30 minutes into the game anyway, and frankly the ONLY thing that came out of the article was the new wolf/cat monsters (which move and die REALLY wierd by the way - I think a new team did the work on those than previous monsters).

I spent most of yesterday running to [)()()[)wic and Tufa and Cragstone yesterday and after a few hours of "oo's" and "ahh's" it got boring. So I spent a few hours running around looking for dye plants.

Here's where I will rant a little.

Ok, I think the Dyeing process is neat. I like the ability to change colors and such on clothing - it lends to more individuality, which is something the game has been lacking, especially for mages.

But its just such a royal pain in the ass to get it done! Look, I really do understand Turbine wants to err on the side of caution introducing new stuff, but lately they have gone way overboard being overcautious.

They were worried the Aerlinthe quest would be too easy.

So they made it INSANELY hard. Hard to the point where people literally don't care about doing the quest because its so aggravating. They wanted Aerlinthe to be hard so they dump so many monsters on it, you can't move due to the lag in places. Well, the game shouldn't be hard because of lag, it should be hard because the monsters are hard.

They put in the Dispells but they were worried about game balance so they made them insanely hard to cast, and put limits on the very aggravating process just to get the components for the spells.

I won't talk about the shard collecting quests, we're all very familiar with those (and you archers and mages can enjoy collecting more with the new quest bow and orb in game since yesterday...).

So, we have this dye process which requires plants to crush with mortar and pestle. First, lets make their spawn extremely rare so people get to waste hours looking for *1* plant. Then, lets make the alchemy/cooking skill insanely high to use properly. 250 skill you say? Sorry, you just ruined that nice celdon bp by cutting its AL 50 points and making it bright pink. Didn't you know you needed 300+ to make it work? Thanks for playing, please come again.

Finally if you do happen to fail like everyone else on the server, not only do you lose the components needed, you lose the cooking tools you needed to do any cooking in the first place? What's that? You lose your cooking pot if you fail to boil the dye? Tough luck, pal. Get thee back to Nanto and buy a few dozen to put on your already overburdened cooking mule.

In fairness I'm not sure this last point isn't a bug, but it sure as hell is annoying!

So, to conclude my rant, I think the Dye skill really is neat but its difficulty factor is way overstated. God forbid we should get something that's fun AND practical to do. Seem you get to pick one or the other these days.

Back to my original point about the new patch. Overall it really does seem pretty good, and I like it. The destruction of Arwic is pretty neat, and if you talk with the merchants who live in barns now south of town, they're all pretty shell-shocked, which is a nice touch. Dunno about other servers, but the two spires that are supposed to be floating over town are missing on HG.

The new monsters seem pretty neat and low and behold, the spiders don't cast Life debuffs! Halleluah! What's more, they are Life-magic resistant which I think is really cool for War mages. Finally melee and War mages have something to do besides watch their Life mage counterparts drain everything around them to death. Sure, this is an overstatement, but its nice to see Turbine actually come up with solutions to people's complaints.

The free skill point at level 32 is way overdue, but they deserve credit for putting it in anyway. Rojon gets Healing in 6 levels now instead of 11. He may live in the BSD for September...

Corpse dropping on shards and flame elementals is a really nice and welcome change.

Not exactly sure what they meant by Item spells' range being increased by 2.5 yet. Does this mean you can actually Loather someone's weapon from across the radar screen? That would be very nice for PvM and very interesting for PvP (do YOU know YOUR spell words yet?)

Timmy was running around in a dark green robe yesterday and it was cool for awhile, anyway. Everyone wants to find the blue plants but nobody has yet. Also had a bad experience with a guy who accused me of stealing his plant and keeping it when he asked me to dye a robe for you. I've no idea what parents are teaching their kids these days but there are definately too many punks running around who don't think about the feelings of others or take the concerns of other people into consideration at all.

I'm kinda disappointed there doesn't seem to be any in-game lore about the battle at Cragstone. Defeating a shadow spire sure sounds like an epic battle, but there's very little support about what happened in game yet. Maybe that will change. I've heard rumors about Elysum the killer of the Olthoi Queen and an uber-mage getting together to destroy the spire, but have nothing concrete yet.

New Quest Bow! Is it a Hollow Bow? Time will tell.

New Quest Shield! New Quest Orb? Have you visited Uziz yet?

I need to spend more time running around killing monsters this weekend.

Overall the patch looks pretty good. Some of the dyeing process is really annoying and stupid though.

More to come... as it develops.

Dye Report 11:33am EST - Farik Il'Kadar

Astura did some dye experimentation last night.

For those who already know the steps involved, bear with me here :)

To start the dye process, first you need a plant. Plants are found on the ground; you just pick them up. A-Chu and Astura ran around the desert last night for an hour, and found one yellow plant. Maybe other types of plant are easier to find. Maybe they'd be easier to find if half the server wasn't running around picking them :) Plants come in several colors. I have personally seen Red, Green, and Yellow plants. I have heard that Blue plants exist, and rumors of Black and White ones as well.

Anyhow, once you have a plant, you use a Mortar and Pestle (alchemy tool) to crush the plant. This requires an alchemy check. If you fail, you lose the plant.

The next step is to use a Neutral Balm (alchemical ingredient) on the crushed plant. I assume this is also an alchemy check. If you fail, you lose both ingredients. If you succeed, you get Dye. The color of the dye matches the color of the plant you picked up.

The next step is to boil the dye. You use the dye on a Cooking Pot (cooking tool). I believe this is a cooking check. If you fail, you lose the dye, *and your cooking pot*. This annoying fact was learned the hard way last night :) If you succeed, you get Boiled Dye. Note: The Boiled Dye occupies your cooking pot until you use it.

The final step is to apply the Boiled Dye. I do not know what skill is used for this feat; it would have to be Alchemy or Cooking. I only did experiments on Hooded Faran Robes last night. Success with Green and Yellow dyes resulted in a dark-hued robe, tinted with the color of the dye. Failure with a Red dye resulted in a hideous girlie bright pink robe. I was able to dye over the pink failure color with a successful Green application.

Succeed or fail, when you use the Boiled Dye, you get your cooking pot back :)

Rumor has it (I have not confirmed this myself) that if you fail when applying Dye to a piece of armor, that armor piece drops in value and AL, in addition to its new nasty color.

If you lose your cooking pot during the boiling step, I now have a few extras muled in mmh. Alternatively, they cost 60py at the grocer in Nanto. I assume they can be purchased elsewhere.

Astura's Cooking and Alchemy skills were buffed into the neighborhood of 250 for all of these attempts, and she had a failure rate of around 75%. Of course the sample size was so small that this is hardly scientific. She used a total of 5 or 6 plants last night.

I do not know if Dyes can be mixed. It never occurred to me to try it.

That pretty much covers what I know (and several things I don't ;)

Laters
Steve
(Astura)

Mo's Event Pictorial 11:34am EST - Movarl

Jeff

Impious Temple 11:57am EST - Elske

The spawn in that place is way to long but we got hafts for Elske and Nansense.

Here are a few shots I snapped of the night.

http://www.alexh.cnchost.com/impious1.htm

Thanks A-Chu and Farik for your help. I don't think I want to do the Mite Maze part tonight. We can wait until Farik gets back next week.

-Alex (Elske/Beryl/Jackaroo)

Arwic and Tufa Flattened! Film at 11! 9:33am EST - Rojon

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/september00/acevent/

Its Time 5:51pm EST - The Miko K-sun

Ok I cross posted this to news.....

Reiki Anzho & Her Allegiance will be joining us if they see fit to do so....

I have read the posts.. listen to what everybody has to say... It clearly looks like to me that the majority would like THEM to join ....

people were worried about to many joining at once and people joining just because they were under Reiki and we don't know them... just to point out.... policy in the past is not to make them join on there own merit but on the merit of the patron that is joining us... Deao did not join on his own merit.. yes he could have.. but it was not necessary as he was a vassal or Nez when she join and she vouched for him ... yes Reiki has many more followers, but I think the same rule still applies ... if she vouches for them then they are allegiance members until they don't deserve to be allegiance members any more...............

THE VAC clan:

if they chose to stay under Reiki then I think it is in our own best interest to make a set of rules governing them separately.... the fact that they role play AC is too cool... we can work around them as long as they are not role playing thieves ..... I think that if they wish to remain... we can work something out with them

Reiki may swear to the patron of her choice at anytime she sees fit... if she wants a ceremony then we can try and give her one.. if she doesn't then it is up to her...

I am asking Reiki now to make our list known to all her members so as they will have the opportunity to receive there fair share of spam instead of doing work ... as our list is closed Reiki will have to work closely with myself or hiro to identify e-mails that belong to followers of hers

I think that we should welcome them all with open arms and get to know our new guild mates..... with any luck there will be new hunting partners for all

Miko K-sun

Why oh why did the new creatures have to include spiders? 10:31am EST - The Mizu-no

http://www.gamecenter.com/Pc/Previews/Ashc/shot2.html

I hates spiders I do This link will take you to screenshot of the new stuff Kinda fuzzy shots of the plants used to dye stuff and floating nautils as well as swamp dwellng spiders

John Loggins

Look folks, new monsters!

Banderling Rager! They have blue pants!
Plutonium Golem! They are magmas that are blue!
Enhanced Drudge! They have neon gree face-paint!
Gold Rat! They are Gold and use their rat powers to cast Imperil VI!
Black Phyntos Wasp! They are black and cast LV VI spells, 500 mana, 999 mana conversion.

Welcome to the land of the palette swaps!

TSS

Just fought my first Silver Tusker... 10:31am EST - The The Silent Spearman

I made a mistake to attack this thing with "only" 318 weapon skill base +7% attack on my weapon and HS V. It's Melee Defense is SO HIGH that I actually had to sit there swinging at it for SIX MINUTES AND THIRTY FOUR SECONDS (I timed it, and remember that this is continuous swinging). On several occasions I missed over forty times in a row.

Forty times in a row...with 318 weapon skill and +22% Attack.

I won't be attacking these again until my weapon skill hits the 330's and I'm using HS VI. They must have the highest Melee Defense in the game (not sure if Hellfires have higher...Miko?)

TSS

EXTRA: Serac Vault Gives It Up To The Source 9:52am EST - The Farik Il'Kadar

Today, an intrepid group of characters assembled and went after the Greater Frost Stone in the Serac Vault.

Ping, Hunters Chase, A-Chu, Nansense, Pethor, and Farik il'Kadar found the Vault entrance, somewhere in the mountains to the east of Qalabar.

We decided to let discretion be the better part of valor, and took the candle jump shortcut. Some of us had to do this more than once :)

Happily, three of the four undead guarding the stone were trapped in a pit. So, we only had to fight a single Dark Rev every 5 minutes or so. This was not much of a problem for our fire-equipped group.

Later, we were joined by Agrona Aushora, Quixi's Bane, and Rojon. AA relieved Farik as the main focus of the Dark Rev's attacks, and was unfortunately killed twice.

However the evening was a smashing success, as all corpses were recovered, and everyone got a stone.

My personal thanks to Ping for driving this event on the listserv, and to whomever it was that looked up the coords, and to Pethor for playing guide for those of us who hadn't been there before.

Later
Steve
(Farik)

Item Theft 9:43am EST - The Elerain Keuldan

Ok, so i havent been on for a week, I log on as my mule to get a matty coat, and my mule has 1 pack, none of my three matty robes or any of my 113 bows, or any of my 70 or so pyreal slivers or anything else, all gone, whether this is a hacker or what I dont know, but beware I just lost around $500 worth of stuff, and if anyone sees anything with the following inscribers let me know,

duko, inspectah dick elerain keuldan, deznuts, sarah lee, or la biznatch.

thats all, and boy am i pissed

Reiki's Allegiance 9:30am EST - The Rojon

I just attended a meeting of Reiki's allegiance and it was very interesting.

Everyone there was very nice and supportive of their monarch despite getting bad news that she hates them all and doesn't want to be their monarch anymore. :P [ed: Phil is joking in case you couldn't tell]

They all would like to join though their european subgroup is concerned about our level 10 restriction. The reason for this is the people they recruit start over as new characters with distinctive physical attributes (they are all bald) and wear distinctive clothing as part of their role-playing.

Yes, they do role-play. Since this is something we don't have a lot of on Harvestgain, and since the people they are recruiting are basically starting over, I suspect no one would have a major problem with them swearing in the restarted level 1 characters.

Would they?

Also, we need to make a decision here. Its not practical to consider each and every member of her allegiance separately. The ways of The Source were explained to them and frankly I don't think there's a single person that will fail to live up to them.

I would like to put it to a vote, or ask each of you to express your opinions now. We've talked about this for some days, and since her group is ready to join us, we need to know if there's any major objections from anyone at this time.

Phil

News And Things That Have To Be Done 11:33am EST - The Silent Spearman

The following things have to be decided and I want some concrete answers.

1) Natalie-Portman, you are levelling very fast and you need to enter the tree at some point. The four possible choices for patron are Chinook, Dhali, Mizu-No, and Drake. Mizu has no vassals, Chinook, Dhali, and Drake each have one. Hurry and choose, and get sworn, before you pass them in levels.

2) Pedro would like to be sworn to Fletch McGee. I would like this to be done as soon as possible, and to facilitate this transfer I'd like Dhali and Pedro to each keep the other on their respective friends lists. I think for sentimental reasons all of us would like to see Pedro with a Source tag :)

3) Fight Night IV...it has generated little response so far and I want concrete "in or out" answers from everyone. If the date Zak has set is a bad time, we need to know so we can reschedule. If there isn't sufficient interest in doing another fight night, now is the time to find that out.

4) The tree. I want to hear some opinion on whether or not this organizational idea (which we polled about and implemented early on) still has the popular support it once had, or should we reorg to a more flexible vassal/patron scheme? Please give me your comments and don't be afraid to go in-depth if necessary. Hopefully this with everyone having a say we can put this issue to rest once and for all.

5) Shadow Armor. I'm trying to get the top half of my shadow celdon and as such I'd appreciate any donation of frags/shadow pieces that you can make (if you are not looking for the armor yourself). I have killed 90 without any success. I currently have specks and one shard out of the 16 of each that I need for my scintillating gem.

6) Fletch McGee! Fletch is coming along very well and I think we all deserve a congratulations for sticking with the idea of levelling an alchemist/fletching mule. Fletch made our first Quality Ingot a few nights ago and can also successfully carve (non Dark) Bone handles. Give yourself a pat on the back!

Thanks. Respond to this message with any comments.

TSS

An Invitation 6:25pm EST - Reiki Anzho

I'm holding an allegiance meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4pm est in the Mayoi meeting hall. You are all welcome to come and meet whoever of my followers are able to attend. I plan to answer their questions about the source.. but you can answer them better :) I also plan to explain your rules as I understand them.. come keep me straight and meet some of them!

Reiki

Acid Stone Summary 9:03am EST - Sac

i am sure someone who writes better will come up with a better story and more paragraphs and capital letters and all that but wanted to get some thoughts out before i went to bed. it was overall a big sucess i believe. we had two casulties, well one and a half. nansense gets the acid pro 6 has expired message about one line before we hear her scream on her way back to the lifestone. quixi's bane was on the wrong spell bare and cast lifestone recall on his weapon DOH! i must say that i really respect both of these individuals for not complaining or whining. nansense lost 4 robes just like the plan and quixi is taking on faith that we will be going back. i appreciate this deeply you two. i promise to go with on the next run! it started with rojon finding the route for us - thank you rojon. when we got there we asked a few people where the stone was and the most descriptive answer we got was "far". thanks to percival for that info. well we did it source style guys. we stuck together. we just worked our way through with no spoiler or map. we made sure a-chu didnt die and we eventually found the end after a few wrong turns and hundreds of dead olthoi. we had eleven people in our party and except for nansense and quixi all that wanted a stone got one. i would like to thank each person idividually for their contributions (in no particular order :^)...

• rojon - thanks for providing the route, the sanity and for staying up late on a school night.
• miko - thanks for making it so we only had to kill bugs if we wanted to and for staying until the very end.
• hunters chase - thanks for coming even though you didnt even want or get a stone and thanks for being the gnome of the bunch and leading us to the end somehow.
• movarl - thanks for killing the bugs up top before they got down to us
• a-chu - thanks for STAYING ALIVE
• quixi - thanks for going on an out with me and showing me you are a class act and a welcome addition to the source
• nansense - thanks for having enough master robes to not loose your sweet amuli and not complaining when you died
• farik - thanks for hanging with me like the old times
• rimgar redsun - thanks for showing me you dont have to be scared to go anywhere just becuase you are red
• ping - thanks for showing me how awesome dagger can be

Reiki Anzho 8:16pm EST - Miko K-sun

Reiki has asked to join the source..... she has spoken with Rojon about him becoming her patron.... this is a rather big decision for us as she comes with lots of baggage (vassals)

Rojon: could you please forward all e-mails on this discussion to her, so she knows what is going on?

Reiki has thought that many of her followers will not want to join and will leave.. she also has plenty of mules in her allegiance that will need to be weeded out per our rules..

We all know Reike (well most all) and I think many of us would think that she would make a fine addiction to our allegiance... but we must also think of the vassals she has.. I may know some of them .. but can't right now identify any of them as being her followers.. so I can only speak for Reiki ...

This I think is not an easy decision for us to make... well maybe it is.. but I think that it needs to be explored for a day or so... this is not the simple adopt a vassal program that started with Ling Poh that seems to work so well... This is more of adopt an allegiance... um that doesn't seem so easy..

I have my opinion on this as voice of druss ... um that is what I consider myself.. acting monarch or voice of druss.. I may be wrong in assuming my leadership roll the way I have.. but I seem to be turned to often when there is a political question to be answered ... so this has lots of affect on myself and druss

BUT:

you must all remember that what any member does affects all of us... hey look he is a follower of druss .. isn't Miko K-sun in that allegiance.. man he's a real asshole.. I bet they all suck ... Druss is how we are identified.. but we are seen as good because of what we have done as a whole .. not just what Druss has done.. when one of us does a good dead we are all rewarded .. when one of us steals we are all branded ... taking on lots of new members at once can affect how we are all seen.. We are the source because we talk things out and work together... we are seen as a group and not just as sheep following there leader....

This being said:

I will not express my opinion on Reiki's allegiance joining ours... Rojon e-mailed myself, sister c, & druss about her joining because he felt that it had direct barring on our way of playing AC... I doubt
that it will affect druss and sister c much at all.. as for myself.. it will only affect me if the new members look to me for political answers as the present members do.. it will affect the rest of you more... yes
it will.. fire stone friday night.. well you may have five new members that want to go.. have to get to know them.. maybe they are not right for you to hang with.. maybe they are a blast and have same play schedule as you... these are some of the things that could happen... you must decide if you are ready for the added responsibility of maybe 20+ new members at once

This is a group question.. they will affect how the rest of AC looks at you... Every member of the source affects how the rest of Harvestgain looks at you... Good or Bad !!!! .... we have done an excellent job so far... let's keep it up

I think that we will need some ground rules for Reiki to join and they need work since we no longer have a council... everybody pitch in with what we need to express..

1) .. we strive to have no mules in the source.. 2nd characters that see play time are fine... but just out right mules for rank are asked not to be pledged..

2).. no picking up vassals without group approval.. at this point in time there is no set way to get a vassal except to post to the list server.. members on the list server will express there opinions of the
prospective vassal.. if nobody has objections then they are in.. if people have objections.. then this prospect is checked out to see if we think they are source material .. oh.. and a vassal must be lvl 10
before even considering joining

3).. No Stealing .. simple enough rule...

ok... I need input and thoughts on her joining... I think Reiki knows that this will not be an overnight decision.. but if we keep her in on the conversation .. then she will not feel ignored.. to this note

Rojon if you forward stuff to her.. invite her to join this list.. let me know what her e-mail is and I will approve her ... make sure she knows there may be negative thoughts to her joining and she may not want to read ...

thanks for the Time

Miko K-sun

[Ed: I have made a special folder for all the spam on this topic and I will eventually create a new discussion page with the material...but the spam was *so* heavy today that I'm totally swamped]

Introducing Diggler 8:13pm EST - Sac

ok my unarmed guy is out of the box. thanks to nansense for the first 6 levels of twinking and timmy for the 6 to 10. man i gotta say imperil 5 is nice to have. anyway. looking for advise...

started him with 100 10 100 76 34 10. spec in ua, melee, item enchant, lore. just got healing at 7. conversion at 16 critter at 45 (poss life at 65, who knows, i have time :^). spent xp on NOTHING but health and endurance for the first 10 levels. kind of cool when you kill the granite golem at level 1 and get FIVE points to your ua skill HAHAHA. and dammit if a lvl 1 guy kills a lvl 32 golem, can you throw me a mote for the effort at least??

he now has 60 health and 42 stamina (no that is not backwards). and healing. i have 10 mana and don't plan on casting a spell until i start working my magic skillz at level 15-16 (when i get conversion). all xp goes into arcane lore, health and end til level 15. that way i get 90 health 70 stamina and 51 lore. just enough lore to use all my lvl 2 jewelry, my ua 3 sollerettes and my bd3 sk3 katar.

ok, yes i have questions. i need hunting grounds until then. i think i can do it on my own and was gonna start on simone's hill. close to the lifestone and all that :^). when i get to 15 i wanna do the lugs. 16 actually, when i get ls recall and portal recall. i need to hunt in that 10-16 no mans land that everyone hates now. it is gonna make or break whether i stick with the guy or not.

looking for suggestions. i am open to twinking or just a place where i can run rampant. thought about folthoids but i dont have recall so not sure if that will matter. loot does not matter in the least. diggler's department is fully funded by sac.

also, i wanna get him in the source. i plan on playing cisco and diggler more than sac in the future since they are gonna be such beatings :^)

thx in advance guys. and i wanna send out props to miko, rach, chewygranolabar, and especially rojon for outfitting diggler to the HILT. he is all set with lvl 2, 3 and 4 suites of jewelry and stat enhancing juice. sac and cisco helped but that doesnt count.

oh yeah. i wanna get hamuds as soon as i can. gonna read up on it but may need some blockers. anyone have an ash tooth? i will of course do the running. i will give a key for a tooth :^) wanna get a rav soon too. dont think this guy will ever have an atlan.

sac
the cisco kid
... and introducing ...
diggler

Fight Night IV 8:13pm EST - Zak'Nafein

Fight Night IV is tenatively being scheduled for Friday, September 15th. I would appreciate having matches suggested. And as for the rules...does everyone like the 5 buff limit or should we change it?

Also tomorrow, i would like to go get the broken staff for Mhali. She and i have already gotten the ore from the Arwic Mines.

Joining TheSource 9:29am EST - Acid Sin

First off, I would like to say how much I, and my vassal Dark Arkon, respect your group. The Source sticks out from all other groups on the server, both pk and anti. As far as I'm concerned you are all a notch above the rest.. About the no-loot policy that had been suggested for me, while it is flattering, I don't believe that anyone on the server deserves this. You make your own decisions, from those you gain the good that comes with them, and you have to accept the consequences that are also a part of this.

Moving on to the real meaning of this message. I would like to thank The Silent Spearman for accepting me, and my vassal Dark Arkon into your guild. I hope to receive the same reaction from the rest of your guild, but will understand if for any reason not everybody feels the same. All I can hope to do is to prove myself to your group over time. I believe some of you already know where I stand, and will enjoy me joining. Not trying to flatter myself, but I think I've already made pretty decent friends, and a good impression on most of your guild.

Right now my only vassal is Dark Arkon. I have had others in the past, but he is my only real one. I don't take on vassals normally unless they are somebody that I respect and trust. I know Dark in real life, so you should all have no worry about him doing something that I wouldn't. Both he and I spoke about the possibility of joining The Source tonite and liked the idea. Right now his playing times may be limited to the weekends mostly, but soon he will be back on more often. Please accept him into your guild as much as you will me.....don't know how much from all of you I will be yet:).

A little history on myself: I bought Asheron's Call during the end of May. I went to FrostFell and talked to some people there briefly. After being there for about 10 minutes, and finding out that there was a pk switch on all servers but Darktide, I logged out of there and onto Darktide to spend the rest of my AC life there. I started off in Yanshi, and lived most of my earlier levs there. I was soon introduced to Sawato and the COA. I had really never realised that there were towns that were, "safe" like this before, and ended up living there for quite some time. I joined under a local in town, who joined COA briefly and left. After living in Sawato for awhile I realized that there were some really good people there, but there were also lot's of people there who had to big of ego's. I ended up getting sick of the political disputes in Sawato and a lot of the BS and behavior of other anti guilds on the server. Dark and I decided to go ahead and turn pk, and went out on our own for awhile. A bit after that I talked with Goomp, who I had known and respected, both him and Samuel, for quite awhile. I ended up joining him, and returning to ls in my old home of yanshi, only in a different form. I pretty much didn't care for the majority of anti's, except for a few who I wouldn't kill when I saw , and others I would fight, but talk to in /tell's at other times. I felt like this until I met some Silent Spearman vassals. I think Mizu-No and another were the first ones me and Dark ran into and fought. We ended up winning, but I was pretty suprised to get messaged from him later and not hear the usual trash talk. Later on, I ran into Druss and others. After I fought Druss one day he messaged me telling me, "You are the man," or something like that. Used to trash talk I didn't know what to think of it, but talked to him some more and realized he was a pretty cool guy. Pretty much all under TSS that I have met since have followed suit. That brings me to where I am now.

In concluding, I look forward to being on the same side as the rest of you from now on. I never really was a full-fledged pk, more of a selective pk. I would usually just try to find people that were good fights and that was about it. The occasional newbie did get wacked, but I would try not to make a habit of it, and whenever I was in town buying I would usually not attack people 10-15 below and not kill one guy over and over. I hope to go on some quests with you guys soon, and also join up with your raiding parties and everything else:) Thanks.

Acid Sin

P.S. If you guys are planning on going for the acid stone I would love to go with ya. I have gone through it a few times, and know the way pretty well. Also, feel free to drop me a line in game anytime about anything.

More Pictures From Beryl 1:10pm EST - Beryl

Not much spam today. I'll create some.

Here is my latest set of pictures of Jackaroo going PK and some fighting on Bandy Hill with Mahamet and some other stuff.

http://www.alexh.cnchost.com/pictures2.htm

Some day I'll come up with a better system/layout.

Success Stories 10:31am EST - The Silent Spearman

We are good people so we attract good people.

We are a class act. People respect that. That is our real success, I have always said it. No matter how many PK's we kill, I want us not to be known for the fury of our attacks but for the goodness in our hearts.

We don't whine, we don't steal, we don't talk shit. EVER. NO EXCEPTIONS.

And the rewards are starting to show.

There are lots of good people out there. Some are PK. It's a fact.

And so I talk to this guy, you might know him.

He says that he went PK because antis are full of shit. They have massive egos and talk shit just as bad as the PK's. They never give people any credit. It sounded like a typical anti-anti rant (I knew it was anything but typical though). He had a point to make.

He says that WE have changed his perspective in things. Because of the way we carry ourselves, the way we steadfastly refuse to be assholes.

I'm proud of you guys. You've done a great job upholding the vision that we've all had for the DTSource.

To anyone on DT who thinks that nice guys finish last, I have but one thing to say.

Where In the World is Rimgar Redsun 10:31am EST - Rimgar Redsun

Hi Guys,

I know its been awhile since i've posted buy hey, its only a game, right? Anywhoo this is to let everyone know what i've been up to and why no one has seen much of me on HG.

I've became a bit bored as of late with HG and AC in general, alot of my goals have been met, made 55th, got Item, went PK, etc, etc, etc.... So i've started in DT with an Archer chick btn of Tek'a so if im not on HG and you need me hop over to DT and msg me, i'll come over ASAP with either Rim or Sniper as I do have his acc info somewhere......

I don't have many goals left, one of em was to get to 126lvl to get into the advocate dungy, well that doesn't seem to realistic anymore, i've played AC for over 7 months of GAME TIME, yup 7 months of my life have gone into AC which breaks down into roughly 210 days that i've been sitting in this closet of a computer room (it really is a closet, bout 5*4ft room) and im starting to itch for a change. The Mrs has started college so my "Technology Suite" has been seeing more of her then I and it'll probably b that way for another 2yrs as she is going to tech school for accounting.

Nothing else drop me an e-mail on this board as to when you'll b on, who you need online (Sniper or Rim), and what ya need done. I'll try really hard to accomadate(sp) but the wife has first dibs on *our computer* now.

Also, Rach, pls start makeing some room on ur mules or talk to Pain so i can give you back all this phat loot that i've been holding and collecting dust for so long, nothing else i'll give ya my acc info so u can grab whatever you need when you need it.

It's been alot of fun guys, im not really looking into quiting just yet, but my play time is going to be severly limited in the future (or at least till i peice togather a comp that can run Excel 2000).

Just an FYI for everyone :-)

Rimgar Redsun

New Pics 1:42pm EST - Khali

I haven't been very good about posting pics in the past few months, but Deao just sent me some nice pics that so I thought I'd at least link to them here since probably noone checks the gallery page anymore.

New Deao Pics: 264 damage (5/30/00) | Approaching The Fountain (6/1/00) | No Company At The Fountain (6/1/00) | Moonset (6/4/00) | Super Rat (6/20/00) | We Got T-Shirts (7/22/00)

Aerlinthe at 4pm EST 12:58pm EST - Rojon

If you're available and can come it would be cool if we could blitz the island.

Msg me ingame if you'd like to come.

We Love Druss 4:44pm EST - Khali

I don't often (enough) take advantage of this opportunity to do my own editorial in this space, but once in a while something comes along that is important enough to exercise my ability to do so. Druss has just written a story about Action Man and Adeon that is so thrilling to me that I must request that anyone who pays this site any mind immediately stop what you're doing and read this story. While the new 'chat log' stories tend to have less writing than the former full narratives, Druss takes full advantage of the spaces between the chat to let us know that he is the hero. It seems to me that this story demonstrates what Druss (and The Source) is all about.

-Chris (Khali)

MacroBot Correction 4:32pm EST - Farik Il'Kadar

The documentation I provided with MacroBot contains an error, in the section describing non-text keystrokes.

If you are trying to get the Insert key into your macro, the code I listed is wrong. {INS} results in an error, and crashes the program.

Use {INSERT} instead. I tested this earlier today, and it worked. I also tested a few other codes: {BS} (backspace), {PGUP}, {PGDN}, {ENTER}, {UP}, {DOWN}, {LEFT}, {RIGHT}. So these are confirmed to work.

If anyone runs across other codes which don't seem to work, please let me know.

Thanks
Steve L

Elerain 3:58am EST - Elerain Keuldan

Ok, so with mutch anticipation, I will introduce myself,

My name is Justin, my best friend Brian recently left for his first year of college, and with much argument between his sense(which he has very little of) and his crack(or ac) he left me his account.

I am Mairika on hg, she is level 26 melee/sword, I live in Vermont, and despite claims made by Druss, I am not gay... DAMMIT!

I hope to be a welcomed addition to your group, I am having a very hard time picking up this account as Brian was somewhat of a tool, and made himself a great many enemies, to qoute Dougles Adams, "oh-ah".

SS and I discussed all of this before he admitted me into your circle, and since I more or less know the 2nd tier personally, he was more than convinced of my comittment

So wakefield you can relax, it's me the goofy kid who's ass you always kicked in magic ok?

If anyone is concerned, please have out with it and I will hopefully be able to adress it

I hope this will calm some of the worry,

"Hail Gunslinger, and well met."

TSS Makes 50 3:56am EST - The Silent Spearman

Thanks to everyone for their support in these months. 56 million experience will only take you to Level 50 if you're having enough fun to stick it out. Thanks to all of you, I was.

TSS

Best Bow In The Land 9:31pm EST - Khali

Our very own Mizu-No owns the best Bow skill on the Harvestgain Server according to the latest top ten lists published on the Zone.

Harvestgain
Rank Character Name Heritage Group Class Template Bow Skill
10 Aimy Sho Adventurer 292

10 Tefarin Dakkon Sho Archer 292

9 Souless Arizon Aluvian Adventurer 293

8 Chionelou Sho Archer 294

7 Loco Dragon Sho Adventurer 295

6 Lorne Aluvian Adventurer 296

5 Trees Sho Adventurer 297

4 Odin The Quick Aluvian Adventurer 301

3 Shwisssh Sho Adventurer 303

2 Stix Sho Adventurer 304

1 Mizu-No Sho Adventurer 312

The top bow skill on any server is 359 by Joaquin of Frostfell. For some reason, Darktide was not included in the list.

-Khali

Flash From the Past 8:20pm EST - Garurumon

Hello Guys,
Man this is bringing back memories. Its cool all the people I really miss from AC are still on this old list. As much as I miss you guys I don't miss AC at all. EQ is a blast and super addictive, although we
play it a lot less then we did AC, but of that may be because it is summer. Chanda and I are still kicking ass as a team, she plays Shezilla a lv30 Iksar(lizardwomen) Shaman and I play Devimon a lv31 Iksar(lizardman) Shadow Knight, oh yeah at level 20 we took Razortayl as our surnames. Both of us have magic although mine if very weak since I am mostly a warrior, think anti-paladin. Shezilla is sort of like a druid from D&D but with more stat buff and debuff spells. Devimon can summon a little skeleton pet to help out in fights and soon, lv34, Shezilla can summon a wolf to be her pet. We
still haven't fought any of the really big stuff, like dragons and gods, but we have killed lots of giants. It is sooooo cool to kill things that you barely reach the knee on. I will have to think up some stories to share, have to get back to work.

Laters,
Thad....once Garurumon Uber-mage of HG....now Devimon meatshield for Shezilla

Tree Business 8:20pm EST - The Silent Spearman

First off, Elron.... Natalie was two choices:

Swear to Fletch McGee...

Or....

Natalie, who doens't know anyone in the Source very well except for you, could swear to you, much in the same way that Sensai is sworn to Drake (we've gotten to know Sensai quite well since he started) :)

Currently the tree looks like this:

There are a couple of people right now who are close to hitting 30 and entering the senior tree: Herrimone and Mhali. I'm not sure where they are going yet.

I saw Dhali on very briefly yesterday just as I was logging of and didn't get a chance to chat with him, so there are still a couple of Dhali-related tree matters that need to be addressed.

First, we need to get Zak'Nafein sworn to Dhali.

Second, Erie needs to be sworn to Fletch, as far as I know, in place of Zak'Nafein.

Sensai, you have the same choice as Natalie-Portman, you can stay sworn to your buddy or swear to Fletch.

Elerain Keuldan will be swearing to me. This is the only possible option since he's LV 47. There won't be a new branch of the tree forming under him, he will have no vassals. This is to prevent up and coming vassals from having to be divided any further.

I need these changes implemented. Zak, if you catch Dhali online, you two drop what you're doing and get it done.

TSS

Announcement 8:00pm EST - The Silent Spearman

Most people who want to join us are clueless newbies, whiney punks, total liars, d00dspeaking idiots, or any combination of the four. They would contribute nothing to the group and would be a complete waste of time.

Today however, I met a very nice Shollos by the name of Elerain Keuldan. He is a LV 47 mage.

He isn't a moron, he seems articulate and polite.

He agreed with all our rules.

This is the first time a reformed PK has wanted to join us, and the reformed PK wasn't, for lack of a better term, a complete dingleberry.

Still I wasn't going to let him join, without spending some time with him in-game, seeing what he was like, etc, but he told me a few other things about himself (including the surprising fact that he was a friend of Miko K-Sun's on HG) and I became convinced that he deserved a chance.

He is swearing to me unless anyone can see a reason for him not to.

Try not to be too worried- there isn't much of a downside to this. If he is as nice as he seems, he will be a great addition to the Source on DT. If he's just playing me for a fool (and I doubt this), then I'll boot him out. Simple as that :)

In any case I'll take full responsibility if he causes problems, but I don't think he will. He doesn't need a minder.

He will be joining the listserv and writing an introductory message sometime in the near future. Give him a warm welcome.

Only time will tell. I'll keep you posted on this development.

TSS