I heard about this event over guildsay, and, like you, I was pretty disappointed at the player reaction.
Sadly, several of these people were in my guild. I don't know if any of you have ever played a
Roleplaying event at one of the face-to-face cons like GenCon or Origins, but I assure you that simply
claiming that you are "evil" or "carefree" and using this as an excuse to behave however you feel like is
not roleplaying. It is not only important to understand your own character and motivation, it is critical
to understand the backstory and to place yourself into the appropriate context. How the heck can a player
claim to be doing this if they are: a) trying to see if they can Levitate Mayong, b) casting Whirl Til
you Hurl on Mayong, c) trying to trade things with Mayong, d) seeing if they can do backstab damage to
Mayong, e) oh, you get the point. I was quite pleased when I heard them screaming that they'd been
banished to Everfrost. Served them right.
Kenross Cantoforjado, 45 songs, Innoruuk
> From: "Sylly Songsynger" <jgs@...>
>
> We got wind of this GM event that was gonna happen in Mistmoore so we headed
> on over. Sure enough, on the ramp near the zone was Lord Mistmoore (GM in
> PC looked like male DE), Lord Garamont (sp? a NPC), "a wounded elf" (NPC),
> and another NPC (if i recall correctly.) And they were trying to carry on
> some role playing dialog and unfold some story.
>
> Trying is about the best way to describe it. It was happening amidst the
> semi-normal MM zone stuff "blahblah auctions, WTB Ykesha or SMR send tells")
> and of course the crowd of on-lookers some of whom were determined to
> disrupt. Not too long into the event - like 10 minutes max, some jerk "bind
> pulls" the castle (he binds at the zone next to the event, goes invis into
> the castle, agros a bunch of stuff, gates back to his bind point, goes back
> invis, and starts yelling "TRAIN TO THE ZONE!" I guess he wanted to scare
> everyone into leaving. Heh, he also forgot that once you agro, re-invising
> is useless. The train eventually caught up with him and smooshed him.
>
> The GM's started /kill-ing all the train crap and dutifully got back to
> their tale. Well, not too long into it, some other guy decides to attack
> one of the "quest" NPC's. "Lord Mistmoore begins to cast a spell..." and
> the guy is summoned to Everfrost. Then an enchanter decides to charm one of
> the NPC characters and makes it say: "My leader is Raloon!" Poof, he is
> disconnected and dumped to his desktop. Then some loose castle train npc
> attacks a lev 50 wizard who was watching the event. He casts an ice comet
> and "poof" he is summoned to Tox forest. While he is there, he sees another
> player who was trying to harass the event, an oger, who was also summoned to
> Tox. Guess the GM's who summoned him forgot that Oger is KOS to the Erud
> guards who are now death looping this guy.
>
> At that point, I left. Do people want any "role play" in this game? Do
> they want GM events and dynamic quests? Do they want to learn the "lore" of
> Norrath? All I can say is that it sure seems like they (the playing & so
> called paying customers) sure dont. If I were the GM/Guides who had to
> endure that - I'd be handing in my resegnation. The players suck. Verant
> sucks (for making them do this without the appropriate support and tools to
> make it work.) It really saddened me to see this debacle.
>
> Sylly SongSynger