A great ending to a great night (long post)
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:21 amI started out the nite like any others. I saw i was low on GH potions and proceded to stock up. After a couple rounds of clearing Deciet 3rd, i felt i needed a change. So off to Covetous i went. 1st level was a breeze, i blew throught the level so easy and so fast, that i laughed at that it used to be rather hard for me. 2nd Level was easy as well, i gave it no thought. 3rd level proved to be a challenge. With alot of reds and alot of casters, it was takeing time to clear the level. After about 30 mins of work i had finnaly cleared the level.
Thus begin the nightmare.
I decided to go down some stairs, never knew they were there, and me being the confident and explorer type i descended. Upon entering the area i see a cave, and at least 15 lizardmen all scurrying about trying to get at me. As i filtered through some, a bunch found there way into the corner i was takeing refuge in. dead no problems. But what was concerning me was that every single shaman was not wondering near the entrance so i could pick them off. After a couple mins of manuvering in the walled area i got a couple to wander my way and slew them with ease. I then started the little toss and duck moves with greater explosion potions, into my little sanctuary. When all of a sudden 2 reds respawn in my cubby hole. I am then forced into the open, 3 shamans begin casting, along with 2 marksmen tossing purples at me. In my haste to get out of dodge, i pressed PATHFINDING! (i hate this feature with a passion) takeing me right to the waters edge... 3 water elementals then begin casting. At full speed i am makeing a break for the exit, my mana has been leached from me i cant gate, slight panic hits... and then i see the wonderful black screen and "You are Dead".
Ashuuk, sends a message asking if i need help, oh yes please i respond, and inform him of where i am. So i am sitting there for a few mins watching the lizards kill my horse and looting my body. Then i see the Ashuuk's death cry is heard across the realm. Oh poo! Checking .online, only myself and 2 others are online including the dead Ashuuk. At this point i am hateing life, i can forsee all of my gear saying bye bye because of rot. So i make my way out of covetous and get to vesper and get my self res'd at the healer. At this point i am ready to give it all up, give away my house, and just stop playing. I will admit i was starting to cry, for a solid month everything i did was done to make this character stronger and my gear was getting good. Come to find out: Iarwin Ben Afar, Robert McLoed, and my neighbor Ashuuk are working there way to where i died. When i came out, 3rd had respwned and was a much bigger spawn then when i had come in. blah blah blah, bunch of messages later. They had gotten to where i had died, and were looting my stuff, my body had decayed. Once we got toghter and i looked everything over. I did loose every piece of armor i had, including my earrings and ring of str, pants and apron of magic resistance, BUT! my weapons made it(thank god). Those 3 guys are my Hero's, i do not have the words to properly bring across the joy i was feeling when they arrived with what they could salavage. They even replaced my armor with what they could. Even offering items i could not use or had any purpose for.
Its people like those 3 that make me love this server so much. I didnt even know them, i had run into Ashuuk every once in awhile, but all it was, was hey! etc. When 3 people out of the blue go out of there way to try and recover what i had given up on it makes me feel so great. I am forever in there debt, and if any of them are ever i need i will come running. Actions like these make me believe that there are still very good at heart people in a world where you see corporate corruption, lieing leaders, and wars being fought because they can.
Iarwin, Robert, and Ashuuk... i bow to you, and forever thankful.
Thus begin the nightmare.
I decided to go down some stairs, never knew they were there, and me being the confident and explorer type i descended. Upon entering the area i see a cave, and at least 15 lizardmen all scurrying about trying to get at me. As i filtered through some, a bunch found there way into the corner i was takeing refuge in. dead no problems. But what was concerning me was that every single shaman was not wondering near the entrance so i could pick them off. After a couple mins of manuvering in the walled area i got a couple to wander my way and slew them with ease. I then started the little toss and duck moves with greater explosion potions, into my little sanctuary. When all of a sudden 2 reds respawn in my cubby hole. I am then forced into the open, 3 shamans begin casting, along with 2 marksmen tossing purples at me. In my haste to get out of dodge, i pressed PATHFINDING! (i hate this feature with a passion) takeing me right to the waters edge... 3 water elementals then begin casting. At full speed i am makeing a break for the exit, my mana has been leached from me i cant gate, slight panic hits... and then i see the wonderful black screen and "You are Dead".
Ashuuk, sends a message asking if i need help, oh yes please i respond, and inform him of where i am. So i am sitting there for a few mins watching the lizards kill my horse and looting my body. Then i see the Ashuuk's death cry is heard across the realm. Oh poo! Checking .online, only myself and 2 others are online including the dead Ashuuk. At this point i am hateing life, i can forsee all of my gear saying bye bye because of rot. So i make my way out of covetous and get to vesper and get my self res'd at the healer. At this point i am ready to give it all up, give away my house, and just stop playing. I will admit i was starting to cry, for a solid month everything i did was done to make this character stronger and my gear was getting good. Come to find out: Iarwin Ben Afar, Robert McLoed, and my neighbor Ashuuk are working there way to where i died. When i came out, 3rd had respwned and was a much bigger spawn then when i had come in. blah blah blah, bunch of messages later. They had gotten to where i had died, and were looting my stuff, my body had decayed. Once we got toghter and i looked everything over. I did loose every piece of armor i had, including my earrings and ring of str, pants and apron of magic resistance, BUT! my weapons made it(thank god). Those 3 guys are my Hero's, i do not have the words to properly bring across the joy i was feeling when they arrived with what they could salavage. They even replaced my armor with what they could. Even offering items i could not use or had any purpose for.
Its people like those 3 that make me love this server so much. I didnt even know them, i had run into Ashuuk every once in awhile, but all it was, was hey! etc. When 3 people out of the blue go out of there way to try and recover what i had given up on it makes me feel so great. I am forever in there debt, and if any of them are ever i need i will come running. Actions like these make me believe that there are still very good at heart people in a world where you see corporate corruption, lieing leaders, and wars being fought because they can.
Iarwin, Robert, and Ashuuk... i bow to you, and forever thankful.