Estarra: Here's your reason for nerfing

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Unknown2005-05-26 19:10:31
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Malicia's aura of weapons rebounding disappears.
Malicia razes Nyla's magical shield with a fullered broadsword of blue steel.
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Malicia whips a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword through the air in
front of Nyla, to no effect.
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Malicia takes a long drag off her pipe.
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Malicia slowly fades into view, returning to the realm of perception.
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A swarm of giant locusts bubble up from the ground and swarm over Malicia,
their jaws clamping down on her flesh.
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call for help

You yell, "Help! Help!"
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ih malicia

With a powerful lunge, Malicia strikes at Nyla with a fullered broadsword of
blue steel. Malicia pricks him in the gut causing him to bleed slightly.
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Number of matching objects: 0 (out of 3 total)
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With a powerful lunge, Malicia strikes at Nyla with a exquisitely crafted
draconic broadsword. Malicia strikes into his gut, which opens up and pours
blood in a pool at his feet.
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block n

Your action causes the nearly invisible magical shield around you to fade away.
You must regain equilibrium first.
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You have recovered equilibrium.
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A swarm of giant locusts bubble up from the ground and swarm over Malicia,
their jaws clamping down on her flesh.
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A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a
painful barrage of tiny cuts.

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A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a
painful barrage of tiny cuts.

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Makes it hard to fight when invaders have artillery sitting outside blasting away.

There's also...

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Malicia's aura of weapons rebounding disappears.
Malicia razes your magical shield with a fullered broadsword of blue steel.
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A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a
painful barrage of tiny cuts.

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Malicia takes a long drag off her pipe.
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A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a
painful barrage of tiny cuts.

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Malicia razes your speed defence with a exquisitely crafted draconic
broadsword.
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Unknown2005-05-26 19:14:07
Ever better

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Malicia arrives from the north.
An ominous shadow shrouds the area moments before a piercing cry heralds the
arrival of a massive black eagle from the north.
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Malicia razes your magical shield with a fullered broadsword of blue steel.
3568h, 2884m, 2884e, 0p, 16740en, 13308w elrxk-<12:12:46.203>

A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a
painful barrage of tiny cuts.

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Malicia whips a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword through the air in
front of you, to no effect.
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A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a
painful barrage of tiny cuts.

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You bleed 358 health.
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With a powerful lunge, Malicia strikes at you with a fullered broadsword of
blue steel. You receive a nasty belly wound from the thrust of the blade.
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With a powerful lunge, Malicia strikes at you with a exquisitely crafted
draconic broadsword. Malicia strikes into your gut, which opens up and pours
blood in a pool at your feet.
A prickly stinging overcomes your body, fading away into numbness.
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A geyser of locusts bursts up from the ground underneath Malicia's feet,
scouring her flesh.
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s

You are paralysed and cannot do that.
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s

You are paralysed and cannot do that.
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s

Now now, don't be so hasty!
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drink health

You take a drink from a pearl vial.
The potion heals and soothes you.
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outr sparkleberry
eat sparkleberry

You remove 1 sparkleberry, bringing the total in the Rift to 1545.
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You eat a sparkleberry.
You feel your health, mana and ego replenished.
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focus body

You begin focusing your mind on your motor skills.
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l

You suddenly perceive the vague outline of an aura of rebounding around
Malicia.
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Entrance to the Glomdoring.
The blasted landscape screams of pain and suffering as the trees seem to crawl
in unbearable agony. Their very bark is maimed into grotesque shapes that
sickly imitate the flesh of dead bodies. Nearly all the trees are devoid of
leaves and those that have some sort of foliage seem to whisper poisonous words
into the very breath of the wind. Misty darkness shrouds the entire area in a
false sense of twilight that is pierced only by strangely luminescent lichen
that provides a subtle, malign glow to every surface. A sigil in the shape of a
small, rectangular monolith is on the ground. A massive eagle perches here,
silently preening its midnight-black plumage. Lanista Malicia La'Saet, Sunaj
Blade is here. She wields a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword in her left
hand and a fullered broadsword of blue steel in her right.
You see exits leading north and south.
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s

You are paralysed and cannot do that.
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A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a
painful barrage of tiny cuts.

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s

Zyaran, the Midnight Eagle bites at you with his gigantic beak.
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You are paralysed and cannot do that.
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Malicia's aura of weapons rebounding disappears.
With a powerful lunge, Malicia strikes at you with a fullered broadsword of
blue steel. Malicia strikes into your gut, which opens up and pours blood in a
pool at your feet.
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s

Copious amounts of blood suddenly splutters from your gut onto the ground.
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A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a
painful barrage of tiny cuts.

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s

You are paralysed and cannot do that.
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Malicia takes a long drag off her pipe.
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Your muscles unlock; you are no longer paralysed.
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Now now, don't be so hasty!
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s

Now now, don't be so hasty!
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s

A stream of wooden splinters shoots in from the north, peppering you with a painful barrage of tiny cuts.
You bleed to death from the hundreds of tiny punctures left by the splinters
embedded in your flesh.
You have been slain by Ashteru.
The corpse of a banshee falls out of a parafilament purse.
A sparkleberry falls out of your inventory.
A swirling force begins to tug at your soul and the world spins around you.
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Gregori2005-05-26 19:33:05
Aww poor you. Got beat down by intelligent use of combined skills. My heart goes out to you since you never do stick around to fight anyways, just run away as fast as you can.

EDIT:: Not that running away is a bad thing. I do it to. You don't see me on here crying about Daevos and company using intelligent use of skills to keep me pinned down and killing me though.

Malicia2005-05-26 19:34:12
Anyone could do that from anywhere. Why does it have to be changed? You don't have to stand in range. You choose to. Take some responsibility for your choices.
Unknown2005-05-26 19:34:20
..... laugh.gif all I have to say, poor Visaeris.
Unknown2005-05-26 19:42:12
If I had the log where our citizens were getting wisped into that long tunnel in Glom to be shot at in a similar manner I would, but I didn't experience it.. So. Eh.

It doesn't make that much of a difference to me, I'm just posting this as a valid reason as to why this should be changed. Estarra explicitly said if you want to kill someone in enemy territory, you need to risk doing so. She said she wanted to nerf cross-border attacks, but wanted a scenario in which it was actually "abused".

The shield excuse doesn't work because of above.. The "move away" excuse doesn't work because of the wisping, etc.

It's not a personal thing for me, because I'm done with Lusternia for a while.. at *least* until my disfavour wears off or I manage to get ahold of this one thing I've been wanting for a long time
Unknown2005-05-26 19:43:20
.... You decided to stay there, and let them continue to splinter you.
Unknown2005-05-26 19:46:14
QUOTE(Guardian_Shiro @ May 26 2005, 12:43 PM)
.... You decided to stay there, and let them continue to splinter you.
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Perhaps you should read a little closer. I got paralysed, focused less than half a second later, when I was unparalysed I got the "too hasty message", and even if I had moved I would've gotten one more room south(which was still in line of sight and had at least a few more rooms to go before I could get out of line of sight) and then gotten splatted. Running wouldn't have made a difference in any way.
Unknown2005-05-26 19:47:20
Could have asked for help on your city channel, could have ran for guards in your section. Can have ran for the avatars.
Gwylifar2005-05-26 19:57:05
The point isn't "ow, that can hurt". The point is how that fits into things that are part of what "enemy territory" means. Things like guards, and karma, and conglutination, and totems. That a cudgel-spray can cross the border doesn't violate those in anything resembling the ways that actually moving the target across the border can do, particularly given that both sides have equal access to pretty much identical border-crossing attacks.
Unknown2005-05-26 19:57:19
QUOTE(Guardian_Shiro @ May 26 2005, 12:47 PM)
Could have asked for help on your city channel, could have ran for guards in your section. Can have ran for the avatars.
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Ok maybe I'm not being clear.

I'll add a visual aide.

CFH means call for help.

I had one shot worth of health left when I got unparalysed.. I could have moved *at most* one room away... Which is still in line of sight.
Unknown2005-05-26 19:58:10
tough, go Serenwildes!
Unknown2005-05-26 20:00:39
QUOTE(Guardian_Shiro @ May 26 2005, 12:58 PM)
tough, go Serenwildes!
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That's saying one thing, but don't be stupid and say I *could have* avoided it.

QUOTE(Guardian_Shiro @ May 26 2005, 12:47 PM)
Could have asked for help on your city channel, could have ran for guards in your section. Can have ran for the avatars.
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Rakor2005-05-26 20:01:00
QUOTE(Visaeris Maeloch @ May 26 2005, 03:42 PM)
a valid reason


What? This is what makes combat more interesting!
Daganev2005-05-26 20:01:19
He was running south, and there were no exits to move in other directions.

Unknown2005-05-26 20:01:30
could have ran for avatars, whatever...
Silvanus2005-05-26 20:12:14
Smart Visaeris.

Guards only respond to a CFH within 5-10 rooms.
Gregori2005-05-26 20:14:04
First of all he could have been out of fire in range in less than a second if he wanted. Sprint is a marvelous skill. He uses it enough to race -into- Faethorn.

Second of all, knowing that he is likely to be attacked for standing there after just being chased out of Faethorn what does he do? Stand there and cry about how mean people are because he didn't have the brains to... oh.. I don't know... stand somewhere else?

So ya let's nerf everyones long distance attacks because people do not take responsibility for their own actions and it cannot possibly be their own fault they are to stupid to catch on to a recurring pattern
Sylphas2005-05-26 20:44:02
I only stand there and cudgel for a reason. Usually, because someone was running around in Faethorn and annoying us. We don't just all go stand there and wait to ambush people. If you're going to start something, or even just do something that you know we'll retaliate for, WHY STAND THERE? Raid all you want, when we show up, move! If we enter Glomdoring, we're wisped into guards.
Unknown2005-05-26 20:45:00
He just loves to complain alot.