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Message ID: 21140
Date: Mon Aug 28 18:38:30 BST 2000
Author: Cranfill, Wendy
Subject: RE: [eqbards] The Bardic Kiter


ROFL
OMG
i can't stop laughing!!!!!

Hally (bored to tears killing raptors)
SolRo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen E. McCloskey [mailto:s.mccloskey@...]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:20 AM
> To: eqbards@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] The Bardic Kiter
>
>
> I too play on The Rathe, so you might find this amusing B
> (seems to be a
> lot of ignorance on Rathe). Instead of boring you with a
> long story I'll
> make it short. I had a day in Ill Omen a month back when I
> was charming.
> All alone in part of the zone, I had not seen another player
> in about an
> hour. I was charming mobs for one on one fights. This
> warrior and bard(of
> all people!) come along and start trying to kill steal. Now
> they have me
> distracted and two wandering mobs jump me. No problem, I'll
> just run in
> circles while charming. They start disrupting the mobs that
> are following
> me by hitting the one my pet is on, by now I lose about 400
> hp because of
> it. While they are killing one of the mobs, some fool caster
> trains me
> with 6 mobs. I give a real life sigh and just figure if the
> warrior and
> bard go away I'll just have a 30 minutes challenge on my
> hands (sounds like
> fun!). Nope . . .
>
> Here is the good part. Half way through killing these I get a tell.
> Warrior: "If you do that again I'll have your account banned."
> Me: "Huh?"
> Warrior: "You were charm kiting."
> Me: "Yea, since when is that against the rules?"
> Me: "Aren't you the one who just tried to kill steal? You
> know that IS
> against the rules, and I could petition you for it, but I am not."
> Warrior: "You had about 10 mobs on you. You are hogging all
> the kills.
> You're not even getting hit."
> Me: "Yea, because I was trained. I usually only have a one
> on one fight
> until people jump in where they don't belong."
> Me: "So you are going to petition me because you're jealous?"
> Warrior: "It's not fair, your not getting hit, so that is exploiting."
> Me: "Go ahead and petition then."
>
> I was on for probably another 4 or 5 hours that night and I
> never got a
> tell from a GM, I assumed they just laughed, if he petitioned at all.
>
> Ignorance at it's finest.
>
> -Steve
>
> At 02:54 AM 8/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > Pulling only 2 (somehow), I began my craft. What I
> found most amusing
> >is that folks passing by would stop to watch in amazement.
> There I was, a
> >lone blue-clad, green-boot-wearin' bard running in big
> circles with 2 giants
> >and an ever-increasing horde of drolvargs (mostly growlers)
> not far behind.
> >Every now and then, one of the critters would fall over
> dead. Thinking back
> >on it, I have to wonder how many times I was /petitioned for
> exploiting
> >something heh!
> >
> >-=B=-
> >NOR Bard Talespinner, Esq.
> >Bard of 41 Seasons
> >The Rathe
>
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