Over the past few weeks a friend of mine has been extolling the benefits of Siege Perilous to me. "How helpful people are there, the tight knit player community, etc." "Sure there are occasional reds, but that's relatively rare". I decided to take him up on his offer to provide me with a nest egg there, enough to buy a decent size home so I would have some place to live.
I did a bit of research on Stratics and online and saw the name Safe Haven come up on occasion. I started a character, and after a bit more research and some scouting, I found a place for a 10x14 plot just on the outskirts of the town, right between the road and the mountains. "Most excellent", I thought to myself. Off to a good start.
This last Wednesday, I had a few minutes to get on before I had to turn in for the night and I decided to get on my SP character and go to a place I found on VS to get a full spellbook. Took off from my house to go to the community hub to get to the vendor location and came across a couple of blue characters right at the crossroads. The next thing I know is "So and so #1 is attacking you". I stopped, stood there a moment and died. I watched a few seconds as a ghost and saw the character messaging on General Chat. I said in chat "I guess it's not so safe in Safe Haven. His response was that it really was safe there, that he didn't loot me and he was just having some "fun". It looked like maybe a few friends were just playing around and I got caught up in the turmoil. I found a wandering healer, rezzed, and immediately received the message "So and so #2 is attacking you". This one turned their dragon on me and I immediately died of course. I only stayed a few minutes since it was late, but made my way back to town, rezzed and logged.
On my next opportunity, I returned to the area, took a look around and was surprised to see that So and so #1 owns one of the castles right in the center of the community. I guess this surprised me in that I expected the players that attacked me to be outsiders. I returned to my house, demolished it, returned all the gold my friend gave me plus 1000gp I got as a new player.
I'm not sure why I feel disillusioned. I've been PKed many times prior to Trammel and in Felucca before and didn't even lose anything this time except the clothes I was wearing, but I see no reason to ever return. I guess I just wasn't expecting to be PKed in a place that purports to be a "Safe Haven" by someone that apparently is a member of the community the makes that assertion.
I did a bit of research on Stratics and online and saw the name Safe Haven come up on occasion. I started a character, and after a bit more research and some scouting, I found a place for a 10x14 plot just on the outskirts of the town, right between the road and the mountains. "Most excellent", I thought to myself. Off to a good start.
This last Wednesday, I had a few minutes to get on before I had to turn in for the night and I decided to get on my SP character and go to a place I found on VS to get a full spellbook. Took off from my house to go to the community hub to get to the vendor location and came across a couple of blue characters right at the crossroads. The next thing I know is "So and so #1 is attacking you". I stopped, stood there a moment and died. I watched a few seconds as a ghost and saw the character messaging on General Chat. I said in chat "I guess it's not so safe in Safe Haven. His response was that it really was safe there, that he didn't loot me and he was just having some "fun". It looked like maybe a few friends were just playing around and I got caught up in the turmoil. I found a wandering healer, rezzed, and immediately received the message "So and so #2 is attacking you". This one turned their dragon on me and I immediately died of course. I only stayed a few minutes since it was late, but made my way back to town, rezzed and logged.
On my next opportunity, I returned to the area, took a look around and was surprised to see that So and so #1 owns one of the castles right in the center of the community. I guess this surprised me in that I expected the players that attacked me to be outsiders. I returned to my house, demolished it, returned all the gold my friend gave me plus 1000gp I got as a new player.
I'm not sure why I feel disillusioned. I've been PKed many times prior to Trammel and in Felucca before and didn't even lose anything this time except the clothes I was wearing, but I see no reason to ever return. I guess I just wasn't expecting to be PKed in a place that purports to be a "Safe Haven" by someone that apparently is a member of the community the makes that assertion.
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