Posted by Carbonated Love on July 27, 2000 at 13:03:12:
In Reply to: I was wondering how do you go about getting a title? posted by Warrior who wants a title too. on July 27, 2000 at 10:36:01:
Hmmmm well, there's a few ways. The best two involve roleplaying. The first is easy: 1) Fuck up. Get anath'd or piss off an imm or do things that are horribly detrimental to your role (goodie invoker practices fireball on elves) and hope you get noticed. 2) Hero, and either roleplay really well are just be around a long time. Heroing is necessary, but after that you need to do one of the other two to get noticed. 3) Make yourself noticed by aggressive, CONSTANT roleplaying. It's important to RP even when you think nobody's watching. If you're not annoying about it, you can gently in-characterly draw the imms' notice. This one's pretty risky, but if you're a badass and you make it a point to dedicate every evil corpse with a prayer to Shokai, after a while he'll probably give you a title. Or you arrange some hardcore roleplaying and make sure the gods know in-char about it (as Taerin, to get the apprentice puppet master title, I tricked five or six people to oath their souls solely to me useing prayers, then bartered with Pico, using their souls as coin.) One guy once prayed some dedication of his art to Raisa or something, and I was bored enough to check it out. He'd actually written Raisa's name with a rose a room on the open plains.. pretty f'd up stuff. I don't know if he got a title, but he definitely got a history note, and it probably helped him when he met the woman herself for empowerment. Any out-of-the-ordinary roleplaying stands a chance to get you a title, but you still need to fulfill a few things: first, be consistent. roleplay non-stop, when you're levelling or sitting at the inn.. you don't have to, like, talk to mobs and shit, but if you're out wandering/practicing/exploring/reeqiupping, at least remember the basics of your role, and all the IC implications of your race/class/cabal (a rager wood elf should balk at smacking around dryads, an uncaballed good healer shouldn't kill dogs for the hell of it, etc). This way, the worst that happens is any watching imm is bored rather than disgusted. second, high level chars and caballed chars get the most just because they have more responsibility and are watched more often. third, it helps to have a *useful* gimmick. I mean, you have a lot better chance of being titled Smacky the Master of Iron, Elf-Bane than being titled Smacky the Master of Iron, Constant Eater of Radishes. nobody cares about some things. Hmmm. Think that covers it.