You helped kill him, you can use it, you won on a random lotto. I see no
problem there. Crappy rolls are just a part of the randomiztion process
it's not your fault you got lucky.
-=B=-
Finally 36th
The Rathe
----- Original Message -----
From: <solane@...>
To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 8:17 AM
Subject: [eqbards] Back to the old CoF debate
> Last night, I went on my first ever Nagafen run. All went smoothly
> (despite the fact that I had an idiot cleric), and Naggy was soon dead,
> dropping a CoF and an orb among other things. When it came time to
> random the cloak, the rule was this--anyone who was a tank was in, and
> anyone who would not actually use it should remove their name from the
> lotto. Being a bard, not a true tank, I removed myself from the lotto.
> The other bard on the run, however, did *not* remove herself. As a
> result, the two people who had brought me put my name back on the list,
> against my wishes. Random happens and guess what? The little bard has
> won her first random ever (yeah, you heard right, in 15 months of EQ, I
> have never won a random). Woo! Brand new CoF.
>
> I don it, it is lovely, and then I hand it back. Of all the people
> there, all the tanks who have been on 9, 10, even more Naggy runs and
> seen nothing even close, it went to a bard, who can barely use the haste
> in comparison with their double-attacking, quisinart selves. My
> instructions were to re-random it, and not let the other bard in either.
> Perhaps that was harsh, but if it was to go to a bard instead of a real
> tank, it should be the one who won, not the greedy latecomer (she did not
> show up until about time to random the mith greaves...hmm).
>
> Luckily for me, an orb also dropped, and the other bard already had one
> (as this particular group does bards before casters for orbs), so I got a
> nice toy anyway.
>
> What I want to know is how many people here agree with what I did, and
> how many think I am just plain nuts (or both)?
>
> -High Lady Karisma Swiftarrow
> Guildmistress, Hearts of Valor
> http://www.heartsofvalor.com (temporarily down, will be up soon)
>
> Visit Swiftarrow's Song at http://www.freespeech.org/karisma
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