WE GOT A FORT!!!
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meteordustThis post is all about Ragnarok Online. You have been warned.
So anyway, the War of Emperium has been running for a few months now on RO. Up till now, Shin Ravenloft has mostly been helping its allies to capture and defend their forts. This coming Sunday, however, was scheduled as our first serious attempt at taking a castle for ourselves.
WOE is on twice a week, Thursdays and Sundays. I figured I should log on for today's session to scope things out and get some practice in. I found a fair number of the guild online, apparently having a go at one of the Prontera forts.
I made my way to the castle gates, but as expected everyone was already inside. My previous attempts at charging in alone had always ended in death, but there was nothing else for me to do but go in and hope to meet up with my guildmates soon.
No such luck - I was in an unfamiliar castle, with no map, and the place was crowded with people. I got diced by assassins and Frost Divered by wizards. Getting killed, refilling my HP, and having to walk back was making me grumpy, but what the hell.
Then, as I was on my way back to the castle, the gamewide GM announcement came through: "The [Valkyrie Realms 3] castle has been conquered by the [Shin Ravenloft] guild."
I couldn't believe it. I still can hardly believe it. We'd taken a fort. We hadn't planned to, but we did.
In front of the gates were a whole bunch of people from Exodus, the guild which had owned the fort, and they were all saying stuff like "F&#king Shin!" I couldn't help grinning like an idiot as I went inside.
We had 20 minutes left to defend the fort before the WOE session ended. I wanted to rejoin the others, but figured I would have to settle for doing what I could where I was. So I set ankle snares at the entrance, while wizards kept FD/JTing me. I am proud to say I actually survived one of the Jupitel Thunders.
Things were better when Neshtall, a fellow hunter, and some of our allies from Playmates and Slaughtered Saints showed up. The priests could Status Recover us from being frozen, and there were too many of us to freeze at once. So you'd get wizards popping through the portal to FD someone, getting shot at, and either dying or having to retreat.
The siege ended with us still in possession of the castle. I managed to find the main hall where everyone else was, and we all lined up for victory screenies.
We have a guild fort now, with a guild dungeon, and already most of us have been taking full advantage of it. Sunday is going to be interesting - Exodus is already recruiting more people to take their castle back, and I expect they'll hammer us hard. Hopefully we'll be ready for them.
In any case, it should be interesting.
So anyway, the War of Emperium has been running for a few months now on RO. Up till now, Shin Ravenloft has mostly been helping its allies to capture and defend their forts. This coming Sunday, however, was scheduled as our first serious attempt at taking a castle for ourselves.
WOE is on twice a week, Thursdays and Sundays. I figured I should log on for today's session to scope things out and get some practice in. I found a fair number of the guild online, apparently having a go at one of the Prontera forts.
I made my way to the castle gates, but as expected everyone was already inside. My previous attempts at charging in alone had always ended in death, but there was nothing else for me to do but go in and hope to meet up with my guildmates soon.
No such luck - I was in an unfamiliar castle, with no map, and the place was crowded with people. I got diced by assassins and Frost Divered by wizards. Getting killed, refilling my HP, and having to walk back was making me grumpy, but what the hell.
Then, as I was on my way back to the castle, the gamewide GM announcement came through: "The [Valkyrie Realms 3] castle has been conquered by the [Shin Ravenloft] guild."
I couldn't believe it. I still can hardly believe it. We'd taken a fort. We hadn't planned to, but we did.
In front of the gates were a whole bunch of people from Exodus, the guild which had owned the fort, and they were all saying stuff like "F&#king Shin!" I couldn't help grinning like an idiot as I went inside.
We had 20 minutes left to defend the fort before the WOE session ended. I wanted to rejoin the others, but figured I would have to settle for doing what I could where I was. So I set ankle snares at the entrance, while wizards kept FD/JTing me. I am proud to say I actually survived one of the Jupitel Thunders.
Things were better when Neshtall, a fellow hunter, and some of our allies from Playmates and Slaughtered Saints showed up. The priests could Status Recover us from being frozen, and there were too many of us to freeze at once. So you'd get wizards popping through the portal to FD someone, getting shot at, and either dying or having to retreat.
The siege ended with us still in possession of the castle. I managed to find the main hall where everyone else was, and we all lined up for victory screenies.
We have a guild fort now, with a guild dungeon, and already most of us have been taking full advantage of it. Sunday is going to be interesting - Exodus is already recruiting more people to take their castle back, and I expect they'll hammer us hard. Hopefully we'll be ready for them.
In any case, it should be interesting.
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Date: 2004-02-21 01:12 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-23 11:13 pm (UTC)I'm glad we achieved something to make you proud of us. ^_^