Shattered Kingdoms

Unfortunately, this thing happens now and then. The only thing I can say to you is that if you want to avoid getting randomly ganked, don't create in teron.

I know, its harsh, but true. If your character feels unsafe there, there is always the choice of moving away from teron too. All you have to do is speak to people of the country you wish to live in and see how its done

I wish you all the luck

Well, the IMMs will certainly take the appropriate action (It is obviously up to them to determine these kind of things on a case by case basis), but you can also rest assured that lowbie/newbie killing needlessly is deeply frowned upon by the vast majority of the player base, and anyone who can find any RPed reason to kill these types of players will do so without any remorse.

In these situations, it is best to pray either ICly or OOCly about the matter, and try to stay calm as well as send logs to Achernar or another IMM (copy and paste the entire interaction without editing). After you do this, feel free to send tells to any character that you think might take offense to the act. This will get the proper authorities attention, give them the evidence they need to punish (should they decide to do so), and will also give PCs a chance to help you out.



Oh, and reincarnating is a heavy price to pay, and I would not advise doing so unless it is a dire situation, and I can't think of an example in which I would honestly use it other than being grand master with enough experience to keep my status. As others have said, ask a priest, and try your best to remain patient.

With all of that said, I'm glad to see new people coming to this game and very upset to hear when they are mistreated by foolish people who do not know how to play nice. Just to reassure you, we are not all like this (even the big, bad, mean dark auras or darkies ).

EDIT:

I'd also like to say that that is a terrible mode of thinking, Erevan. As rough as Teron is supposed to be, random spam killing of lowbies is against the spirit of the game, and such an attitude would only draw people away from the country and eventually the game. People can RP being cruel and heartless killers and still keep in mind that someone else is just trying to play as well. In fact, the diabolic (most evil) help file states that characters will be punished if they cannot be responsible, but that is probably best left to the current thread on the alignment.

While every newbie of SK should expect to end up dying to both PCs and NPCs, flippant and unwarranted attacks are not something SK should allow by avoiding.

From what I've read, this incident is already being or been taken care of, but just by way of some examples of what you could type -

firstly, as in-character at different times...
(while you're still alive, if you get the chance...)


(type WHO and see if you can enlist some help)

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Some examples of what you could type out-of-character...
(as a SAY command, although going OOC using SAY is not encouraged)


(as a TELL to enlist some help identifying the offender)


(finally, as a PRAY to see if there are any administrators on right now)

Right, right. I did that last one.
No reply.
So is that person likely to just be punished, or is there a chance the victims might be compensated?

You're not likely going to be seeing compensation, since, you know, this isn't a court where mental anguish counts for anything. On the other hand, whoever did this will hopefully take their punishment to heart and stop it.

It was a sorc and they didn't use charm, they used ethereal and aggro NPCs. They walked through the cursed woods and got three hired mercs and then proceeded to the Crossroads Inn. Luckily myself and Dexituos were there the first time and killed them all, but the sorc came back and did it again.

Then taunted them while invis with the ventriloquate spell.

If I'm wrong and whoeever did this is ready, feel free to correct me.

Nope, sounds about right.
I didn't mind the vent spell at first for a time, cuz it was kinda funny.

That's exactly what happened.

The perpetrator was indeed caught, and smacked around a wee bit, but shall remain nameless here in the interest of allowing the chance to redeem themselves in the future.

Unless there were others involved in these incidents, in which case I'm not done. Anyone feel like emailing me those logs?

My log of it is sent. If anyone else has logs of this person doing this before this incident today could you send it to Thuban too please? (I'm looking at you OVT).