by Tanchist » Mon Nov 27, 2017 4:31 am
I still think Olaf is an alt. Not sure. He can speak, sometimes does it in English, sometimes in Russian, but he never speaks when Alka is online. Alts usually behave like that.
When I first met them, I was new to the area, I have traveled looking for this place for hours (home of a good friend is just across a river from me now) and I was finally settling down. 1 day old or less on this account, since the old account had powerful friends that I no longer enjoyed to be friend with. I got my fire and a basket with food destroyed. No pb, I foraged again, pit-baked again, leveled some land. Then I chopped some boulders, paved, started cutting some trees. As soon as I got materials for it, built my first Timber house. It was late, so I logged off, to find no house next morning. And no fireplace. They definitely had something against fireplaces.
Well, this time my toon had enough skills (and not enough stats and abilities, but does it really matter?) to build a claim and waste LPs on making it as big as one timber house. And a fire in front of it. I rebuilt the house, got more careful about what kind of log and what kind of board are the main material and how the end product will look. I did not get to claim the new house completely because I had not enough LPs. Logged out.
Next day, a tree trunk was blocking my door. On the outside. When my heart fire was outside and they definitely had seen it, 1 meter from the fireplace that they kept on destroying. And no heart fire was inside. Well, I did not get to do anything because a knarr appeared. And 2 guys got on the ground. I said Hi in Area Chat, they did not answer, got on land near me, heading towards me. I then got inside my house, forgetting it was not claimed. They of course entered, I tried to heart-fire hoping I could run, but I got hit and KOed.
Well, now they did talk, never letting me get out of combat. Olaf was only standing in the door so I can not exit, nothing else. Alka kept me in combat, Alka talked. Apparently I was a danger (Naked with bonesaw and stone axe) to their lvl 3 mine, somewhere near. Well, I was in their base once, a few days later, at their invitation, their mine was at lvl 1, small like they only started to dig it out that very day, no stairs to lvl 2 or lower.
Whatever, once we did talk, Alka said I got too heavily wounded so he will give me some curios and kill me. Which he did. Curios were really great, Q 200 or so. He was not a bad person afterwards, though one day or another I will get to mine at lvl 3 and see their mine if it is near or (more likely) see there was no mine there from the very begining. Anyway, that is how he first reacts to new neighbours or generally new (yet unknown) human beings. I guess he hates out of fear of the unknown, not a real hate, or maybe he played Agar.io for a long while, developing his play style in that game. Olaf is either an alt or a real loyal and not thinking for himself person, though I do believe he is just an alt.
Their gang also includes a cook and farmer, German, with a name like Bjork (the singer). I never saw him being threatening or aggressive towards anyone and he likes to talk to strangers like me without holding a sword.
Bottom line: They are not 2 russians, there is only one, and that one is really uncertain of himself and others, bordering paranoia. Passive-aggresive towards people he does not know yet, patient and cooperative with those he knows they are too weak to be a threat to him. Alkasal is the only danger to the neighbourhood around River Inn and to himself.
Wastelands. Ruins everywhere from proud civilizations, with today's survivors scavenging whatever they can carry even if they can't even use it. Eating rats cooked alive is OK for everyone. Walking around naked is natural, since very few have time to waste in getting a rag to cover their deep wounds. And the game is only Alpha.
