This is a long read, it goes from one subject to another... sorry for its
lenght, just that it reminded me of some of the good and sad things in the
game.
I agree voice graft is fun. Our big green shadowknight troll is always
playing with his pet. And lately we've been tormenting gnome guards alot.
But the newbies love us, we help them out, give them some loot and we even
have some that run to the vendors for us for food and water. And they'll
even buy us beer. No other groups that hunt them will actually do this to
the newbies..
But anyways, back to voicegraft, The troll loves to use voicegraft on his
pet and start playing with the newbies. It gives them a good experience...
His pet told a newbie his real name is really Bones the other day. So many
instances he's played tricks on them.
Its nice, as not all newbies are level 50's with twinked characters. Its
nice to see a level 4 newbie thank you after you've given him 1 or 2 loots
and your coppers that you'd destroy out of many hours of killing and stating
that he is ever so thankfull as it will help him and his wife start playing
the game. You see at those levels, there's no kill stealers except the
guards, which we were disposing of. If they'd have a train of spiders they'd
run to us and we'd dispose of it.
One thing that dissapointed me is that there's a rumor that all guards will
be made level 53. Now tell me this, how are players supposed to overthrow a
city if all the guards are level 53? Can you imagine zoning into nektulos
and whap whap you're dead to a level 53 mob that was trained to the zone
edge? I dont know about others, but when im higher level i want to take
over a city, maybe Akanon or something (its hard as our group is good and
evil, so we have to pick which races to war with).
We were even bugged by a guide once asking us to stop killing the guards,
tell me why this is? We're not exploiting, we're not kill stealing, we're
not training, we weren't shouting to the zone like most idiots do when they
kill a dark elf guard, we were being overly generous to the newbies that
swarmed and cheered around us practically.
Seems that being nice, not exploiting or kill stealing is frowned upon, go
figure...
Minkin
Sol Ro
lev34 bard
P.S. Why dont vendors give xp? i've been cast into the latest video of "When
Vendors attack!!" and still havent received payment...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Hartmann [SMTP:FRANHART@...]
> Sent: September 21, 1999 6:49 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Petiton to replace level 14 song
>
> From: "Frank Hartmann" <FRANHART@...>
>
> In the strictest powergaming terms, the Voice Graft spell isn't worth
> much. But in in roleplaying terms it can be hilarious. I allude to an
> incident I had several weeks ago whilst playing my gnome magician.
>
> I was in North Ro making Dorn's life a living hell. (hey, after all, he
> does it to everyone else, so turn about is fair play.) As I was waiting
> for Dorn to gather his charcoaled body parts back together (respawn), a
> dark elf necromancer happened by and didn't care too much for what I was
> doing to his kinsman. Unable or unwilling to take any direct action
> against me, instead he cast the Voice Graft spell upon my summoned
> elemental (I was not aware this had happened at the time of course.) Next
> thing I know, my elemental begins to berate me for a number of things
> (like he had this long laundry list of complaints he had been saving up
> andf just now had the opportunity to voice them.) He accused me of being
> overbearing, a coward (I always sent the elemental into a fight first and
> hid behind him like any good mage would), and of course, called me SHORT!!
>
>
> Well, out of character, I knew what the necro had done and was almost
> laughing my @ss off, but in character, my gnome was furious with the
> disrespect he was being shown. So he calmly and cooly stated (with /say so
> the necro could here it) "Your statements may or may not be true. But
> always remember that it is I who hold ultimate control over your meager
> existence." I then followed this with a /pet get lost command, to which
> the pet stated, as he always does, "As you wish Master." My insolent pet
> was gone and the dark elf necro and I had an excellent role playing
> experience, though we never actually exchanged a word during the entire
> episode. All due to the "worthless' Voice Graft spell.
>
> BTW, any one who can have that kind of sense of humor and is not playing a
> bard is wasting their talent.
>
> Keledal
> Bard of Erollisi Marr
>
>
> >>> "Naeeldar" <jackal@...> 09/21 4:16 PM >>>
> From: "Naeeldar" <jackal@...>
>
> Well then the problem with this is that all mages get this spell which is
> also useless not to mention other useless spells. For instance Necros get
> a
> spell called Voice Graft that lets you talk through your pet. What good is
> that?
>
> Naeeldar
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