Club of ex-Bastards

[LadyGoo]

Hello everybody. I am Goo and I am a killer, thief and anti-newb nazi. I didn't harm anybody today by the grace of Jorb and Loftar and that is the only way I know of. Everything I’ve done got me here.

I started off my killspreee and griefing career, oh I guess…late 3rd world world, when I was somewhere around 16 or 17 years old. I grew up as a player in a raiding community. My first teacher, Headhunter, was a killer and even though I saw the problems that bloodthurt caused in our community, I still found it attractive for some reason. I don’t know what that was, I thought I was missing something. I was always a kid who was afraid I was gonna miss something.

But nowadays, it's been a month since the last time I killed or stole anything from any player. Sometimes it is hard to resist the dark stranger in my heart who says 'kill, kill', especially seeing how the world is developing nowadays.


So, people, I have heard some of old mass killing folks turned to peaceful farmers. Share your experience.

[jordancoles]

I once killed everything that I saw in the magical City of Dis, then, world 7 combat hit. And now, I hate everything and everyone. I no longer kill, because you can't.
THE END.

[Sevenless]

I've played leader of a smallish raider village in haven w5, and early salem. There's a couple times where I told my fighters to slaughter a village over a theft scent just to keep them occupied so they didn't start killing each other. One of my more fearsome salem fighters I recruited while he was bashing my walls down to raid our town. No one, him nor my villagers, quite believed it was happening, but he made an excellent villager much to everyone else's surprise. Personally I haven't done much of note, but I did walk into a town solo and start killing everyone because they stole a Large Chest from us. Ah to be young again, that was a stupid move and I only survived because they were nabs with 1/4 my ua (I know little about the combat system, and knew less then).

And in w7 I'm leading a scent free town. The stress of worrying about warriors at our walls over each raid wore me out and lead to me quitting in w5. It's always funny when people find out my involvement with raiding and feel I should be a Buddhist in game. The rules and capabilities of the game are clearly outlined, and unlike in real life you choose to play this game under said rules.

[Tonkyhonk]

It's always funny when people find out my involvement with raiding and feel I should be a Buddhist in game.

what are you trying to implicate there?

[NaoWhut]

It all started in World 1.

I spawned into the world at the ring of brodgar
to be greeted by no more than the night. My
older brother was with me, but he was only there
to look around. After he left i was entirely alone.

Mrs. Black Louise, or Cut_lass, was my mentor,
my only close friend and guardian. She taught me
the ways of farming and peacekeeping. Over time
i learned that you cannot keep peace if you do not
have the intention to end another player's life. I
killed my first enemy very late in world 2, after i
had been invited and left all major factions at least
once. My mentor saw what i had become, and perhaps
this is one of the things that drove her into quitting.

In world 3 i discovered that people are not as smart
as they like to believe, very few knew much about
the combat system at all. Everyone was going full
melee combat and flex stinging. I took advantage of
that... as well as my ability to talk people out of
the safety of their brickwalls. I killed maybe 300
people in world 3.

In world 5 i never really had high stats, but i killed many
many people, and spread my ways to a few others of the
hearthlands. People started to take me seriously around
here... mainly because i went into Pandemonium and
beat their top fighters in a 1v4 using a character they
gave me. At this point i was very comfortable with my
ability to take another life.

In world 6 i had a village that i felt somewhat at home
with, Ainran, one of the most chaotic and violent groups
to have graced the hearthlands. However, I would still
slip away alone and murder entire villages, take their keys
and anything of value by myself. I left trails of bodies in
situations that should have had me dead. Death followed
me closely, and with every disconnection i felt he was a
little closer... but he would always catch the people chasing
me first.

Now it seems i am better at not butchering folks just for
their gear or the fun of it, but i sometimes catch myself
making plans.

Carrot farming is quite nice this time of the year...

[Dorky]

It's always funny when people find out my involvement with raiding and feel I should be a Buddhist in game.

what are you trying to implicate there?

It should be pretty obvious. Buddhism is equalled with peacefulness and retreat from mundane affairs in western understanding. A buddhist is generally considered harmless and friendly.
People who worship buddhism here in europe appear more or less bizarre (unless they're actually from asia) since buddhism never set foot here in a historical perspective. You'd general think of people from the 70s when drugs and eastern beliefs became more popular (or frustrated housewifes who want to be special ).

Translated from a sociology book I have lying around here:

"A radical way to salvation appears in buddhist thinking. According to Buddha's teachings lie the reasons for suffering in this world in wordly desires of the individual, his urge for living, happiness and enjoyment, the fight for survival. This is called individuation. Buddha teaches four wisdoms:

1. Life in this world is fleeting and gives birth to suffering
2. The reasons for suffering are lust for life and the fight for survival of the individual
3. The suffering disappears when the individual stops lusting for life
4. The path to the end of suffering is the noble eightfold path to salvation:
a) Absolute insight into the source of suffering in the lust for life
b) Absolute willingness to give up individual desires
c) Perfected speech through the control of one's passions
d) Perfected lifestyle by avoiding any ambition for success in this world
e) The sanctification of life
f) Complete concentration on the path to salvation
g) Attainment of holy thinking and feeling
h) Entering the eternal peace of the nirwana through complete concentration

This is the path to salvation that Weber calls extramundane mysticsim. It diverts the attention of the individual away from this world but does not change this world. Because of this it is still part of a theodicy that is intrinsic to this world. A perfect eternal order exists and the individual just needs to find his path to it. The world is full of evil because the individual involves himself into the lust for life and the fight for survival and is led astray because of this. The buddhist teaching does not give a reason for an earthly motivation to test oneself within the world and change it through active involvement because the reason for involvement itself lies in the lust for life and the fight for survival and therefore is the source of suffering and evil. Not involvement but retreat is the path to salvation.
Buddhism teaches a rationality of finding purpose (finding truth) in unity with the eternal peace of the nirwana by retreating from the world. It discards active intervention in the world, rejects individual involvement in the world, leaves the existing world as it is and distinguishes people into particularistic groups. It does not teach universal ethics for this world. The supporters of buddhism, the buddhist monks, shape the religion in accordance with their position in society, a position remote from power, reclusive from the world. Salvation was only attainable for those who followed their example."

[hazzor]

It all started in World 1.

I spawned into the world at the ring of brodgar to be greeted by no more than the night. My older brother was with me, but he was only there to look around. After he left i was entirely alone.

Mrs. Black Louise, or Cut_lass, was my mentor, my only close friend and guardian. She taught me the ways of farming and peacekeeping. Over time i learned that you cannot keep peace if you do not have the intention to end another player's life. I killed my first enemy very late in world 2, after i had been invited and left all major factions at least once. My mentor saw what i had become, and perhaps this is one of the things that drove her into quitting.

In world 3 i discovered that people are not as smart as they like to believe, very few knew much about the combat system at all. Everyone was going full melee combat and flex stinging. I took advantage of that... as well as my ability to talk people out of the safety of their brickwalls. I killed maybe 300 people in world 3.

In world 5 i never really had high stats, but i killed many many people, and spread my ways to a few others of the hearthlands. People started to take me seriously around here... mainly because i went into Pandemonium and beat their top fighters in a 1v4 using a character they gave me. At this point i was very comfortable with my ability to take another life.

In world 6 i had a village that i felt somewhat at home with, Ainran, one of the most chaotic and violent groups to have graced the hearthlands. However, I would still slip away alone and murder entire villages, take their keys and anything of value by myself. I left trails of bodies in situations that should have had me dead. Death followed me closely, and with every disconnection i felt he was a little closer... but he would always catch the people chasing me first.

Now it seems i am better at not butchering folks just for their gear or the fun of it, but i sometimes catch myself making plans.

Carrot farming is quite nice this time of the year...

FTFY

regardless, even without the stupid formatting it's cringe worthily egotistical

[NaoWhut]

Never heard you talk bad about me before..

like when i ran up, alone, vs your entire
and most all of you died?

But it's ok =o I'll see if i still got it

[hazzor]

Never heard you talk bad about me before..

like when i ran up, alone, vs your entire
and most all of you died?

But it's ok =o I'll see if i still got it

hahah, yeah, cause everyone knows that when an ainran member is alone they're REALLY so alone, lol, you'd be dumb as a cabbage to think that when you run up "alone" there aren't at LEAST 5 of you waiting a few minimaps off, in fact, I even know the incident you're talking about,there were three of us and two ran to a boat, you killed one of us outright because he chose to run inland instead of to a boat, two of us were boating away when of course the backup shows to give chase, we were talking at the time and decided to split and see what you'd do, you all, or at least most of you went after one of us, and left me to get away, the other guy eventually got blocked and died, but sure, you can make it sound much grander than it really was, I'd expect nothing less.

[Jojjkano]

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