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- Gerzson and Kemnast pledge to ensure that unlife does not spread further throughout the planes (and will actively attempt to prevent any others from doing so, although "cracks might always exist" etc.). <-- This was the big one we wanted.
- Gerzson and Kemnast will not attempt to use the Soulbleed Nexus. At all. <-- This was the second big one we wanted.
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- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
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@Shara news to me, love. Sorry you were rubbed the wrong way, I thought you did fantastic and that is why I promoted you. You asked me to negotiate with Alrena and I came through and then you stopped responding to tells when I needed on the fly answers. I know you had 6 people sending you tells so it was a high stress situation and I know you don't know everything that was taking place, but damn you could have told me you felt my tells were rude.
Lies an deception toward your enemy in a war, woe is me how utterly shitty and poor RP that is. How in the hell is that metagaming, did you want everyone sharing all of the strategies all out in the open?
Grandue tells you, " We will begin enemying all those who are directly working against the Seat of Chaos."
Perfectly legal, totally low.
No other city was contacting random rogues and Cyrenians to threaten enemy status for playing in the event no matter how badly they wanted their reward. And because I had a lease in the city, I was forced to bow out of the event entirely and not participate or otherwise forfeit some 144k gold in prepaid rent.
So yeah congrats for wanting to win so badly you decided that a bunch of non-comms were totally worth threatening over participation.
I wish I could say I was surprised.
The fact that you used blackmail to force players to pull out of the event was blatantly disgusting.
Both mine got overturned today, thanks by the way. I thought it was pretty shitty, but I didn't scream about it since I just had too much on my plate to give a single fuck. I heard other faction cities had been doing it so I was waiting for it to happen. Thus, my thanks Tesha and Ada for that. Shara does shop there... ya'll got cheap potash sometimes. Bless.
And on that note. I see no one actually got enemied to Ashtan, that I see in the last 4 logs. So... unless I'm wrong. At least we didn't actually go down that road.
Edit: If I'd of seen it Skye, like I did with Gilt's enemy status. I would have brought it up to other city people for you. Shara wouldn't have thought we needed that, and knowing you rent from us, it would have caught my eye. If you ever have issues with one member of leadership, we have lots more you can talk to about it, honestly. We aren't a pyramid scheme.
The first phase was terribly frustrating, competing with Targ for the same resources, while having only a fraction of their numbers. It meant we ran around for scraps while Targ just posted people on every spawnpoint and/or timed spawnrates. Can't blame them much, but was annoying. One particular Targossian was also a bit triggerhappy in terms of attacking, not gonna pin that on the entire faction though. After Targ was finished, we would have completed our portal fairly quickly though I believe the remaining portals just opened up when Ashtan got their break too.
Second phase we entered a cease-fire with Ashtan, unofficially, so we could at least collect blocks, bash out the denizens (which was a real pain with only 3-4 people, let me tell you that. But amazing gold. So amazing) and build a tent. I don't even know why, Belladona never even used the tent. That bitch.
Third phase, first day: we botched our first assault cause we had to learn the commands. Eleusis then decided to mess with Hashan and let us capture Hashan's territory unopposed. At that point, it was very clear the only way for us to take territory was to either strike when the opposing faction had literally nobody around, or to use another faction to distract them.
Second day, @Grandue contacts me to negotiate for an alliance. I had expected that already considering the cease-fire, and the fact Ashtan was far from dominating the Underworld, compared to Eleusis and Hashan. Having no stake in the fight, no reward or anything, I accepted, since it would give us a chance to at least mean something. That day Ashtan fights Eleusis, and we manage to take two of their territories while they were occupied.
Third day, Hashan contacts me after a brief struggle in the Underworld. Not to form an alliance, but to ensure I wouldn't give my beacons to Ashtan to help them secure a victory. I use the opportunity to force Hashan to support me, by telling them that betraying me would see my remaining beacons (8 at the time) into Ashtan's hands. At the time nobody knew you couldn't use beacons from another faction, including me. I let Ashtan know the same thing, only in reverse. Ashtan and Hashan were vying for victory, Eleusis and Targ weren't even in their mind.
When Targ launched an assault, Hashan moved to stop them for the sole reason of ensuring Targossas cannot gain another point. So when @Farrah asked us if our factions now backed Ashtan's victory, I said yes. That was just bullcrap though, there was never a three-faction alliance, I just wanted to see if you'd believe that and see what you would do. In truth, Hashan and Ashtan were in a strange stalemate, and I was in the middle of it all because they (and I) believed Belladona's faction could grant victory to either of them through the method already described: launching false assaults on their territory.
Who'd I actually side with? Well, honestly, at first I wanted Hashan to win. They deserved it the most, and @Regi only wanted my beacons to ensure Ashtan didn't get them, not intending to use them. Mighty admirable that guy, which is another reason why I think Hashan deserves this win. That said, I did give Ashtan points at the very end, @Grandue made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
So there you have it. I spent most of this event scheming and plotting, forging alliances and breaking them just as fast. Maybe that seems a bit lame to try and mess with the event like that, but I'd like to think it made Belladona's faction, who I think nobody had any hopes for mattering in the slightest, at least somewhat relevant.
tl;dr: Alrena is a Treacherous Bitch(tm).
There was definitely a three city alliance in defense of Ashtan due to Hashan's confusion as to whether Ashtan was gaining points from it. They thought there was a stalemate, but in reality they were feeding the faction that was most competitive with them points while only keeping points from the faction that was quite a bit behind.
I thought you were being sarcastic when you said you supported Ashtan, given how you said it. I assumed everyone was just being asshats to us to be asshats, though, given the interactions and the lack of benefit. I felt better when I realized the mistake they were operating under.
So on the first day, Hashan won our 3 assaults and successfully defended against Alrena's first attack. She didn't really understand the mechanics yet (we barely did ourselves) and it was easy to secure faster - 4 points total. On the second day, we won all 5 assaults and successfully defended against Deladan, which put us up to 10. Deladan's assault while we were attacking a Mhaldorian base was the first instance of a faction being involved in 2 battles simultaneously, and we won both, but Deladan's assault was buggy - we ended up wavering between 90 and 100% control for about an hour. That double win was probably the highlight of the war for my people.
After that we were at 10 points and well in the lead, we pretty much let things play out, a lot of people saved some of their beacons from this day because we were forcing the issue. Except Eleusis of course, who somehow got unlimited beacons, but then that was sorted out to our satisfaction, and we were told they would only be counted for the first five of the day. Since his opportunistic assault was veritably their VERY FIRST one of the day, I knew we'd keep that defense point.
On the third day, we won our first assault right at the Serenade - this put us to 9 points! A huge collective WTF occurred, and I issued like crazy, and got this response :
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Greetings! Regarding your issue #76875: defending your claimed territory from those who would seek to take it over does not count toward your medallion points. Only territories successfully won via invasions will count. If you have further questions and concerns, you may raise them via ISSUE ME.
I replied to the admin with two messages:
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Haha, that's worthy of an announce then. But thank you.
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Also doesn't make sense. If that's the case every faction should 4v1 the others to stop assaulters from gaining points.
And my response from that same admin was this:
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Therein likes the beauty of war and strategy!
(I'm sure he meant to say "lies")
So, from that point on, trusting in these words, I changed my core strategy -a lot-. No longer did we worry about towers, because I expected other factions to have this information and pretty much operate with the same ideas as myself. I knew that both Deladan and Alrena had failed assaults - so they were completely out of the scoring picture. I made it a TOP priority to take Targossas and Ashtan out of the picture in the same fashion, and ensure that all of our assaults were victories with no lost beacons. I did that early on the final day, achieving a perfect 13/13 score on beacon assaults, and then from there on went to take Targossas out of the picture in the very heavy handed defense against Ashtan. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY 0% CHANCE I WOULD HAVE DONE THIS with defense points in play. I would not have drawn the grief inducing ire of Targossas and Eleusis. I would not have worked so closely with Alrena or Shara to help defend against others. I would have made a priority of STOPPING BEACON PLANTS ENTIRELY, rather than letting them go through and ensuring defensive victories. I could have made a point of stealing a beacon from Shara, I pulled it off on Tesha when she had a far stronger group active.
By the way, speaking of that, we couldn't use other faction's beacons. Had a Bella one and a Z one that were un-plantable when I tried to use them. Not sure if intended, but there you are.
And finally, I of course would have actually BOTHERED TO PRIORITIZE DEFENDING instead of shrugging off assaults from teams that I was sure had no more stake in the game, like Deladan's. Because we could have earned points. Fuck.
All in all, pretty bad communication, and a little disappointed nobody had any inclination to correct me on mechanics OOCly, but I understand the competitive nature and the things your respective characters had on the line. I just ask everyone to remember that this is a game, and while RP I encourage you all to be as sneaky and underhanded as your characters wish to be, let's try to keep the OOC culture competitive, easy going, and fair, more fun for everyone that way.
PS: To all those I pissed off with seemingly aggravating nonsense strategy, there you are. I don't even ever lie IN CHARACTER, and I promise you I'm not lying or bending a single truth OOCly here, you all have my word for what it's worth. I don't participate in OOC culture or forums much, but I hope you can learn to trust it over time.
What is this RP you speak of...cause 90% of the event was basically ignoring it >>
I do agree the event would have turned out very differently had the system been a lot more transparent, and the mechanics a bit easier to understand. Bella might not have lost her first assault if so.