So long it has been since the order of daggers imposed their will on this realm. So long since the queen of daggers, once the most feared duelist in yliakum has drawn blood with her silverweave daggers...so long since she led a mass exodus from this world to another, taking many of the legends with her when she left.

Long live the Order of Daggers.

"When the legends die, the dreams end, there is no more greatness."
~Tecumseh

Remember us, people of Yliakum. For we lived here once.

It would be impossible to walk a step in the great city of Hydlaa without stepping on a stone that was once stained in blood by the blades of Valorius Rageway, Queen and leader of the once mighty order of Daggers.

 She who once commanded the greatest and most legendary warriors of the lands, in wars that encompassed all the far flung reaches of the world. From the bowels of the death realm to the bronze doors and beyond...in six wars for our realm The Order of Daggers and our allies fought to deliver our clans unto victory.

Once a nightmare...now an almost forgotten dream.

We are the legends whose backs Yliakum is today built upon.

* Esanor  wonders if he remembers this face ... or this smell ... but offers a beer to the strange brodr.

Somehow I believe you once met a few of the other Hammers. Not all of them survived the Dwarven Wars against Drahlian until today, some retired. But they are still among the present guilds.

My guild was allied to the Way of the Hammer. It was I who won the Hammer's inaugural Warrior and Wizards dueling tournament championship, with Lepohi fighting at my side. In many wars and battles did i fight alongisde the mighty dwarves of the Hammer. In many hundreds of sporting duels did i battle their most mighty warriors.

Long may they live in the legends of this realm.

we do not allow such spoilers on the forum

How can you have a spoiler in a beta (correction: Alpha)?

This is not a finished game, it's just a test version. How does a player test, if he can't try the skill?
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Quote from: Valorius Rageway on December 25, 2007, 11:28:35 pm

RPing isn't the reason we all left. But thank you for the kind words just the same.

Valorius, I just wanted you to know that I miss you too, dunno if it means anything   I downloaded Regnum a while ago but I'm too lazy to install it.  Just wondering, are there gods to pray to in Regnum?

None so meddlesome as those in Yliakum my friend. Again, thank you for your kind words. If you decide to try regnum, send me an ingame PM, same screen name.

Kiirani come back!! 
....traitor.

No way, she's with us now. We're not giving her back.

I think the point of that was to tell you that 15 seconds in RL could be 10 minutes in Ylikuam. What you call a short time in RL really would be a very long time giving guards plenty to catch up.

Well that is the exact opposite of reality. In busy city streets and winding back alleys(what youre saying should be simulated), the fleet of foot escaping killer would have a huge edge over the platemail encumbered guard who was probably standing in the sun all day, bored, and who would really rather be taking a nap. And, oh, by the way.....Elite warriors are very expensive, and are rarely used as guards. Typically the youngest, most inexperienced soldiers in a garrison are. And what's more, guard duty is deathly boring, and guards tend to stop caring about the daily details of their duties, and tend to get distracted by the pretty young girls, or magazines, or anything they can think of to break up the boredom of that oldest of soldier's banes.

One poster said, "They'd just hire more guards until there would be no more killings." Hmmm, a simple sounding solution, but it overlooks the fact that trained professional troops (let alone wizards) do not grow on trees, nor are they free, and that almost no place on earth(using reality as our guild) is there a 0% murder rate. Surely if it was easy as 'just hiring more guards' there would be no inner city street crime anywhere in the 1st world. Yet...

Finally, if these troops were the cream of the crop, they'd be at BD guarding that far more important strategic location. I imagine that'd be doubly so for any mages employed by the Gov't.

So, there are a few more daggers of reality into the heart of the assertion that the hydlaa guards are some inviolable force that could easily deal with any threat.

I can't say that your way of Rping is any better than mine. After all who are we the players to say what is in the game and what isn't? What's implemented is the safest way to go about rping. However I still feel when you RP you should look at the game as a whole and not an unfinished product because the fact that it is unfinished is OOC.

Im not saying my style of play is in anyway superior- just that it's valid. Further, no world is ever in a 'finished state'. It is very easy for me to say blasters dont exist, cause they dont. At such a time as they're invented(implemented), then they exist. I simply choose to view PS as a living, growing world, where the flurry of rennaissance and invention is firmly in place. Things like bows, and riding beasts, and more spells are being devised by the learned of the realm every day.

That's how i look at it. Ylaikum is alive and growing.

PS: As for you being at a disadvantage in fights because you train only mage stats/skills- i will tell you that mages (especially massed mages) totally dominated the war that spurred this thread.

Quote from: Valorius Rageway on July 10, 2007, 09:12:28 am

Some food for thought:

From Hydlaa plaza it's approx:

15 seconds to the sewers,
30 seconds to the arena
20 seconds to the dungeons
45 seconds to either city gate
 

Well, the time in Yliakum is not the time on your clock, Valorius. But a good roleplayer knows this.

I ask, why was this post even neccesary? It was an irrelevant addition that, in reality, was just a lame excuse for a thinly vieled insult.

I quantified my post in REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS cause even "non RPers, PKers, PVPers, and Powerlevelers" would recognize it. Unlike you, i am all-inclusive.

Valorius .. I'm only going to say one thing, you're the only person I've ever met that calls themselves a good roleplayer and considers everything not implemented yet non-existent. I'd think about that if I were you.

I simply dont pick and choose what to include, like all you "RPing Pros" do. MANY PSer simply include what aspects of 'how it would really be" they can cherry-pick that supports your their position, and then conveniently overlook the rest. Like crowds, and congestion and sight obstruction, etc, as i mentioned in my last post.

I simply RP what's implemented. It's IMO the most honest way to do it. I go by what's in game when acting on a scenario. IOW, i do not pretend i can turn ethereal (like one player does), or can blast black fire out my hands (like anohter player does), nor do i pretend i am the equal of a player FAR STRONGER than i am (while, of course, declining his challenges), just to avoid training because "only RP fighting is real fighting", or because "PvP is OOC. Sorry, no, the Devs included PvP to resolve disputes between players.

You know what IS TERRIBLY OOC? Declining a challenge when someone attacks you. "Oh? You're attacking me at a full charge with your swords? Well, pffft, i'll simply decline and ignore you or bicker some more."

Anyone who has ever declined such a challenge has NO ROOM to talk about anyone else's RP deficiencies.

As for me, i RP what's implemented. So sue me.

Warip the dwarf: "Valorius, will you dance with me at the ball?"

Valorius: "Don't make me stab you to death dwarf."

Hhehehe

Looked like you had a nice turnout. Glad you enjoyed your day, and that the at the time ongoing multi-guild war didn't spill over into your festivities.