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by Maegdae » Mon 20.12.2004, 23:55
Here is a clear list of what happened from the beginning. It's as unbiased as I can possibly make it since all my thoughts and opinions are inserted in ( ) and thereby labled as such. I had understood.. whatever the name of the person killed was to be Later, but as there seems to be confusion about that, I'll call it L.
I see someone understood to me to be Later (is this innaccurate?) bragging about his newest finds, gained through a short and evidentally (very lucky) period in the ild. (having been extremely unconsiderate, ill-mannered, and generally aggravating throughout his existence.)
At this point, I open up Berendol's rules. And read them.
And re-read them. And ponder them. And read them some more, making sure that I fully understand the spirit of all the rules, focusing on section 1.3.
The rule I'm being accused of violating seems to be 1.3.4.
"Do not kill players along the main road in front of the buildings in town."
I understand myself to have been within the letter of the law.
I interpreted the spirit of this rule being to give players in town a safe place, so that they won't be attacked while they idle in town, plus various other things. Makes sense.
I also decided that neither the letter nor the spirit of the law applied to other parts of town, since half the rule was dedicated to specifying a certain place in town. This would not have been done if the rule was meant to apply to the entire town. Therefore, I also seemed to be withinthe spirit of the law also. Nevertheless, I researched the rules quite a bit more.
I told L where to meet me, and began messing with my hostility settings testing macros to speed up the process of declaring war..
And L ran into me out of nowhere while I was in the player relations menu. I set him to peace let him re-gear, dispel his suspicions, and lead him off to a legal place to engage hostilities.
L failed to set me to peace afterwards, and attacked me several times in town as a result of this. Twice I logged off to avoid killing him. Soon afterward my Dad required help from me, so I left, neglecting to close Mangband since I was on main street where it's safe.
I returned to my computer to find that my character had been killed, bolted to death at range. All my gear including esp costing 265k was destroyed. I then recieved 50k from Berendol.
Edit: My attack on him was not at all certain and very dangerous, since he was significantly higher level then myself, and possessed several times the armor value and a very powerful speed ring.
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