Posted by Takashimi on March 31, 2000 at 13:23:17:
In Reply to: an addition posted by A recent Hero, now dead on March 31, 2000 at 12:44:16:
> I'd like to see less Ragers focusing on killing everyone that has anything magical. According to the tablet, the ONLY people Ragers are supposed to hunt are mages and the masters of magic. It just says to use other magic is considered blasphemy, not to go around slaying people for using potions or wearing woven bracers. A minor rant.
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> > In regards to Mithadris's log:
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> > Since time immemorial (long before the tablet was there), the village has been at war with the tower. An ongoing, constant, continuing (insert your own synonym here) WAR against the tower. Now, so many of you seem to be experts on 'Appropriate Rager Conduct', why don't you tell us what the 6th rule on the Tablet actually says.
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> > Thror was credited/accused of being the one to lift the parity sanction against masters, but all he did was merely state what the Tablet has said all along.
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> > I'll grant you that there are losers in every cabal that only join for the powers. These are the ones you see that never rank above 33 (usually whatever their last weapon spec skill is). Horror stories of rager gang bangs are rampant, but rather than report these 'continuous' events, vauge comments get posted here. The battle gods are watching and enforcing the rules of the cabal constantly. The losers get weeded out, delete, and otherwise disappear. The 'good' ragers make it up through the ranks.
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> > I, for example, was kicked out when I was in the low 30s for having a crappy poncho, and I myself removed Dhaevor for jumping in on a non-master mongoose (Ceorkhan) that was kicking my ass. I remember a few months ago, some master necromancer (long dead) posted a log of a 'gang bang' on the eastern road. It consisted of something like 3 ragers vs 4 masters plus undead. But since the ragers concentrated on the necro to remove the army, he called it a gang bang (even though they were all in the same room).
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> > Basically, it comes down to the fact that if someone's group dies to a group of ragers (usually due to the other group losing one person right off the bat or the typical abandonment by whoever has the word spell), its a gang bang.
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> > If someone tries to draw a rager out of the village by attacking the giant and immediately gets smacked down by the two hidden/camo ragers there, its a gang bang.
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> > If a rager gets another rager to kill a guildguard, its a gangbang.
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> > If, heaven forbid, a single rager takes the time and energy to hunt down someone, its cheap and ragers are overpowered.
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> > Oh, and in the above case, the victim wasn't ready, was lagged, wasn't spoonfed cabal powers (name that person), and would easily slay the rager if they were to duel.
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> > Want to reduce a rager to a quivering mass of jelly? Take the head. Ragers without the head are weaker then an uncaballed character, period. You say you take the head and the ragers quit? If this is true, report it...Sornzer and some other guy were kicked out last week for this very thing.
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> > Some ragers attempt to bend the rules, and sure, they get away with it at times. This is the exception though, and if you don't believe me, as Nullrick, Eueionar, and Fayesheng. They were removed by Dhaevor for simply 'plotting' a gang bang of Quinthen.
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> > Playing a rager is one of the hardest cabals to play, for the simple fact that you _know_ you will die all the time.
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> > I'm ending this rant now. I challenge you to play a rager to hero. And don't give me a vague comment that you've had 1000 rager heroes. I don't care what you did a year ago. Here's a newsflash: I've had master heroes, but I couldn't tell you anything specific about what it is like to be a master *today*.
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> > Oh, and for those of you who can't get to the Destructor to read the tablet, the 6th rule is as follows:
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> > "Those who repeatedly display a lack of courage, including outnumbering your opponents, are not fit to be a Battlerager. However, in times of war or great danger to the cabal, parity is less important than in
> > personal combat."