Shattered Kingdoms

I don't understand why. I've died to some evil force or other some ten plus times so far, but each and every time I have had all my equipment returned, or left undisturbed. Rhakeesh was wearing the only suit of armor he's ever built, because he's never been parted with all his belongings before, despite numerous deaths previous. In my mind it only made sense to assume that the chivalrous acts of my character towards the evil players he has encountered had resulted in a similar response. When I first started playing we used to have crazy fights with nothing but instant full loot/junk on death, that was the standard.

I remember once disarming Zaknafein and picking his sword up, then running away. He convinced me to return it after some amount of talking, only to summon me to my death rather than simply allowing me to return it peacably as I had already agreed. This from an elf. It used to be cut-throat, is what I'm saying. I guess I was just enjoying the shifted paradigm that I'd been rolling on for so long.

Thank you, Edoras, for the advice in regard to in game and out of game knowledge. I am never quite sure what boundaries are fuzzy and which aren't. Thank you also for taking the time to help me address my concerns with this game. I have always found you to be quite considerate in forums, in our few interactions. I'm sure I don't do a very good job of expressing it, but I really do appreciate people taking the time to help me through things such as this.

Aberrant alignment players might hold such a mentality. Honorably evil people (particularly Hellions) could be inclined to take only potions and wealth, leaving other personal possessions behind. I wouldn't try that theory with a Diabolic, though.


Don

Nokoro,

Just because you typed "flee" into the command prompt doesn't neccistate that you were "running for your life". You can strategically flee, quaff potions/buffs/etc and quickly renter battle. You can "fall-back" re-position formations and strike again. Just keep this in mind, as your char gets into tough spots. Just because it is a command doesn't mean it's what you are -actually- doing.

Only time you're fleeing IMO is if you run to your keep and hide from battle (or any other remote area) or if you flee > logout.

You have a LOT of outs. A LOT of IMHO -solid- rp reasoning you can type "flee" in your command prompt. Good luck wig your char and keep it up, from the rumors your char is pretty damn solid.