by Mvpeh » Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:13 am It was a cold, musty day in the Hearthlands. Damascus was thriving; the finery forges were aching with wrought, the large chests were being built by the dozen, the ore was being heated into a soupy metal, and most of all, the populace was happy. We had good resources, but it came with a.. catch. We were two minutes, give or take, away from Dis. This was a vital error in our positioning.
Our doings were normal. We were finishing daily chores with fines, and I decided to check on something on the forums. I receive Skype messages, and they were atrocious. More scary men at our gates? Great. I ticked on sprint, put water and armor in hand, and took a swing around the gates. My SHP received a fine 30, and my armor took the rest of this man's shot. There were two archers. The usual. However, there was something strange in the air. A faint..
CHOP
CHOP
CHOP
was heard, and I headed inside on my main, after our brave sniper Empire had a short but valiant shootout with the archer, I decided to pull out an alt to see why they were deforesting our trees. I approached with my alt to a man in a bear cape with a sledgehammer, chopping the trees.. in our palisade wall. A palibasher. Approximately one month after the beginning of W6, the (what could've been the) first palibasher. And he decided to test his new skill on our lovely town of 10. I shat my pants. Changed pants, and shat them again.
I was surprised, to say the least. It was an interesting sight, seeing a palibasher on a naked alt. Of course, that naked alt was shot down by two rangers literally one second after that screenshot was taken, but it was still a cool thing to see again.
Of course, we were being raided. The shitting had to stop, and the action had to pursue. I cleaned up my act, and told my villagers what was going on. I told the scentless to log off with as many valueables as they could stuff themselves with, and the scented to come with me. I was the only scented online, as my other fighter was offline, and the sniper had simply left a very minor scent far, far away, in the woods KOing a Korean noob. As they logged off, I began to go through my friends list and see whom I could port away to (after stuffing myself with over 20 flotsams). I tried many, and none could come through, as their LSs or Chieftans were nowhere to be found. I ended up in ArvinJA's old home, the one in the Screenshots thread who had also been owned by Dis. I had met him in the IRC, and having nowhere to go, he allotted me an area to stay in in his abandoned village. I knew this was bad, as his gates were open.
However, my friend Zou came through for me. He allowed me into the Great CCC, and I began to panic again. He also had a palisade. However, I thanked him, and for some reason, we conjured a small group with hopes of raiding Dis. We quickly put aside this thought, and pretty much blew the rest of the night away by talking, laughing, and joking.
In total:
1 palisade destroyed
30+ alts killed (All new spawns from friends and people looking for lulz.)
0 mains killed
Lots of loot protected
Lots of loot lost
Sleep tight, Damascus. =p
Please enjoy this fine album my friend Noomer put togther, it's rather lulzy:
http://imgur.com/a/7xZbr
Moral of the Story:
Make a brickwall.
