Hmmm...

[darkwulf365]

Last night, I was invited to attend Vyris's Ring's quest.  Very hard quest, the party was well informed of the risks involved blah se blah.  I'll skip all the introductory information.  

The point of this (especially after reading the post on personal accountability), is that I wish to extend a thank you to all my party mates, and to Vyris.  And also offer up my apologies, again to my party mates, and to Vyris who ran another awesome quest.  And not to sound like a pre-thanksgiving commercial, also like to thank L, the Dev team and the other GM's that make Layo great.

You can never see what goes on behind the monitor at the person running the character.  And I want to say that last night, it wasn't pretty.  I screamed, I shouted, I cussed, and I whined.  Many of you weren't aware of this, but I was, and that's why I'm writing this.  All but cussing isn't me *is a master swear artist*, and I woke up this morning ashamed at Daren's actions as a character and mine as a player.  Because of RL intruding on fantasy, he wasn't acting himself, and neither was I, and it brought down my game, and probably the games of all the other players in my party.  I can't promise that this sort of childish behavior on my part won't ever happen again (because face it, RL is RL after all
, because we're all human on the inside (even elves). But still, I felt bad because I truly feel like I'm a nice guy (despite how bad Jeran acts and last night, basically I forgot about the human element involved, and I felt like I was on the verge of breaking friendships and hurting feelings.  And to let myself get wrapped up in what is really just a game, because characters can be recreated, but friends are forever.

Anyways, my 2 cents, thanks for reading

[Vyris]

I thought you were fine last night, if you ever get out of line on one of my quests I'll roll against your dex while in battle and if you fail I'll make you fall down. *evil grin*

With conscientous, self policing players like you Layonara will remain a fun and immersive place to play. Thanks for being concerned.

One thing though, a lesson that Gulnyr pounded into my head many times 'Impossible' doesn't mean "Lets try it!" heheh


Vyris

[Yllyrryon]

You were fine last night!  

Vyris' quest really pushed us all to the max, especially in forcing us to make very difficult decisions under pressure.  Though the enemy repelled our incursion, after the dust cleared, I felt like every player involved had given it their best effort.  We faced very long odds from the start, and our group was neither ideally balanced (from standpoint of classes and skills that would have been useful), nor optimally equipped to face what we went up against.

So to all the players involved - great job!  And to Vyris - thanks for yet another awesome quest!  

I like your approach to your doubts about your behavior.  I've said this before, that e-communications often are ambiguous, at best.  So it is good to err on the side of caution to make sure everything is okay, especially if you have any doubts about it.

Ah yes - I want to thank everyone for putting up with the numerous crashes I suffered.  After looking into it today, it was related to work my cable internet provider was doing on their system.  So at least I am glad it wasn't some kind of new recurring problem.

[LoganGrimnar]

One thing though, a lesson that Gulnyr pounded into my head many times 'Impossible' doesn't mean "Lets try it!" heheh

What do you mean.... bah.. BAH what kinda adventure are you? one fo them long lived types ill bet... the ones that want to die of old age and waht not.. BAH! When i see somthing that is impossible i have 1 of 2 thoughts;

1. can i run fastdr then my companions if it is to hard....
2. what spell combnations will allow me to kill it...

[Doc-Holiday]

I blame myself for the extreame difficulty

1. I invited an extra player through RP without first checking to see if that players Level was in range.
 
   a. because of this the spawns were harder

   b. I was well informed that it would be stupid hard if I did.

   c. I hammered everyone else not to do it

2. Weston should never be put in power... ever.. no matter how nice he is

3. If Weston ends up in power... When you see him roll those dice... run... quickly

4. If you don't run.. DON'T let him become the spokes person for all of Layonara



In all seriousness I hold myself responsible for making that quest impossible. I can't help but feel that we may have had a tiny chance of making it had I brougt about the spawning of five or six Shadowdancing Rogue Illithid at one time.  

 
   I'm sorry everyone.   I try to make up for Weston's poor rolls but it seems I failed my own WIS roll.

[Acacea]

Ah...again on that, you thought she was under level 15 and no one said it was your fault. If you had to blame someone for that, blame me! I checked server status to look at her level when I saw her there, but when you said she was maybe coming and everyone said okay, I just assumed the party knew she was level...18? and that the spawns would be stupid-hard like he said, but were willing to deal with that. One tell saying "Are you sure? She's over level 15" would have enabled you to make an informed decision.

I didn't really think it was an issue of anyone being at fault, but better me than you, for that. Hehe. Ralinda certainly used up a ton of healing on everyone, as well, so it's not like she just stood around making it impossible.  

[Doc-Holiday]

Ralinda was awsome last night and I can't thank her enough for the effort she put into saving our sorry hides over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and you get the idea. She contributed a VAST amount of help.

I feel like I let everyone down and I REALLY wanted to be helpful. Something that is VERY hard to be when your character has the luck of something really unlucky.

maybe I'm being too hard on myself

[KageKeeper]

darkwulf365 - 10/24/2005  4:24 PM

because we're all human on the inside (even elves).

*Luna quietly glares at Daren and decides to have a talk to a certain someone about a certain matter*