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OMG, UO from 1998

hazrad

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I just found a report I wrote for our clan called Blackstar on Atlantic in March of 1998. So funny to read, it's the lingo that caught my attention: Anti's? LOL

March 8, 1998, Some time before Midnight, Protecting the Guild House.
There we were, Captain Bone, Kad Blackstar, Sinjen Blackstar and I, Julius Blackstar, minding our business at the guild house. Kad was just hanging around, Bone, I believe was training his magery, Sinjen was working with the vendor getting ready to go sailing. I was lumberjacking making some bolts for sinjen and I.
The mission for that day was to hunt sea serpents until the chaos began. Bone icqed man 'dude, pks attacking Kad, just ran south of the house', 'theres alot so careful, I count like 4 right now'. Ok, I
responded, I wanted to see what was going on. Funny thing, I bumped into a bunch of pks. Wow, I saw 2 of them.... Cattie-Brie began attacking me, I started attacking Lachdannan. More popped up, Luthien started attacking me and then Fretless from BLB, how many was there? That's 4 of them.... someone paralyzed me? Who was that? Soloner BLB paralyzed me. There's another. I saw the Corp Pors coming at me like mad, another one... Kain was attacking me. It was time... I died certainly at the hands of 6 pkers. What a shame. By this time, I think Sinjen and Kad were attacked but evaded. Bone was scared silly, still practicing his magery in the house. Bone certainly had the right idea, to not open that door to the guildhouse!!
What now? Playing ghost, I followed these guys to the tower
next to our guildhouse. Holy ****, they hang around next door? I'm
freaking out now. In all the time we hung around the guildhouse, this is definitely the first time I met our neigbours... pker neigbours.
I did a head count... all pkers... wow there was lots:
Lord Bacardi
Lord Soloner BLB
Lord Fretless BLB
Lady Catti-Brie
Lord Lachdanan
Lord Kain
Lord Reaper
Lady Luthien
Lord Jason II (who is blue btw)
Lord Meth
Lady Beth
Tomahawk of LOK
DevilDog
I then recieved an ICQ fromm Sinjen telling me 'the Calvary is coming'. I followed these pkers north. I think they split up. They were trying to break into a Snuffers house. One of the pkers spoke to me, I told him to follow me. I was trying to get these guys ambushed. By that time, the pkers tower was surrounded by good guys. Waiting to ambush these guys.

I baited the pkers back to the tower and all hell broke lose.
A horrific battle broke out. These pkers against the antis. Big fight. It was a sad moment. Not too long after, many antis fell to their death. Some recalled out. Only a few survived. Including Sinjen and Kad. I think 6 antis were killed in total. Not one pker died. They had an advantage. They were in the open with a good view. The antis were coming from a narrow path between a house and the tower. Sinjen fought hard. I saw that. He was standing up front fighting. Sinjen fought and survived... he bailed out when he noticed it was 10 on 1.
Later on, I found out who the owner of the tower was. It was
Soloner BLB. He's our neighbour. It's gonna be a long game...
 
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Andrasta

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I just found a report I wrote for our clan called Blackstar on Atlantic in March of 1998. So funny to read, it's the lingo that caught my attention: Anti's? LOL

March 8, 1998, Some time before Midnight, Protecting the Guild House.
There we were, Captain Bone, Kad Blackstar, Sinjen Blackstar and I, Julius Blackstar, minding our business at the guild house. Kad was just hanging around, Bone, I believe was training his magery, Sinjen was working with the vendor getting ready to go sailing. I was lumberjacking making some bolts for sinjen and I.
The mission for that day was to hunt sea serpents until the chaos began. Bone icqed man 'dude, pks attacking Kad, just ran south of the house', 'theres alot so careful, I count like 4 right now'. Ok, I
responded, I wanted to see what was going on. Funny thing, I bumped into a bunch of pks. Wow, I saw 2 of them.... Cattie-Brie began attacking me, I started attacking Lachdannan. More popped up, Luthien started attacking me and then Fretless from BLB, how many was there? That's 4 of them.... someone paralyzed me? Who was that? Soloner BLB paralyzed me. There's another. I saw the Corp Pors coming at me like mad, another one... Kain was attacking me. It was time... I died certainly at the hands of 6 pkers. What a shame. By this time, I think Sinjen and Kad were attacked but evaded. Bone was scared silly, still practicing his magery in the house. Bone certainly had the right idea, to not open that door to the guildhouse!!
What now? Playing ghost, I followed these guys to the tower
next to our guildhouse. Holy ****, they hang around next door? I'm
freaking out now. In all the time we hung around the guildhouse, this is definitely the first time I met our neigbours... pker neigbours.
I did a head count... all pkers... wow there was lots:
Lord Bacardi
Lord Soloner BLB
Lord Fretless BLB
Lady Catti-Brie
Lord Lachdanan
Lord Kain
Lord Reaper
Lady Luthien
Lord Jason II (who is blue btw)
Lord Meth
Lady Beth
Tomahawk of LOK
DevilDog
I then recieved an ICQ fromm Sinjen telling me 'the Calvary is coming'. I followed these pkers north. I think they split up. They were trying to break into a Snuffers house. One of the pkers spoke to me, I told him to follow me. I was trying to get these guys ambushed. By that time, the pkers tower was surrounded by good guys. Waiting to ambush these guys.

I baited the pkers back to the tower and all hell broke lose.
A horrific battle broke out. These pkers against the antis. Big fight. It was a sad moment. Not too long after, many antis fell to their death. Some recalled out. Only a few survived. Including Sinjen and Kad. I think 6 antis were killed in total. Not one pker died. They had an advantage. They were in the open with a good view. The antis were coming from a narrow path between a house and the tower. Sinjen fought hard. I saw that. He was standing up front fighting. Sinjen fought and survived... he bailed out when he noticed it was 10 on 1.
Later on, I found out who the owner of the tower was. It was
Soloner BLB. He's our neighbour. It's gonna be a long game...
 

G.v.P

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These were fun days...
Thanks for changing color of OP text lol.

Those were def the days...back when reds were PKs. Nowadays people just go red because "that's what you do" to avoid flag issues. I wish factions didn't turn into such a fail. It would be so cool if they worked in the rich history of Ultima into a compelling and flag-addressing system in which participants didn't have to become a "murderer" in order to PvP.
 

Vor

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Thanks for changing color of OP text lol.

Those were def the days...back when reds were PKs. Nowadays people just go red because "that's what you do" to avoid flag issues. I wish factions didn't turn into such a fail. It would be so cool if they worked in the rich history of Ultima into a compelling and flag-addressing system in which participants didn't have to become a "murderer" in order to PvP.
The yellow works fine on the black. Black text on black background is far worse!
 

Petra Fyde

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If you have copied text from somewhere you can change the font to the default for the theme you're using by highlighting the text and using the 'remove formatting' tool - the small eraser icon top left when you are creating a post.
 

hazrad

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I hope you were like 10 years old in 1998
LOL... yeah, very bad writing... embarrassingly enough, I was in university at the time studying computer science. You would expect a little better quality writing out of someone post elementary school, wouldn't you? hehehehe
 

Lady Storm

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Ah the memories...... you can tell the time was much simpler both in game and out. This story could have any shards name on it..... that was how it went in those days.....
Back then lifestyles were different.... computers were just coming into being a fixture in houses....
 

Andrasta

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Even I could figure out what to wear and bring to the next big event/fight. I didn't need a math degree.

So you just grabbed that reagent bag, robe, archer suit or power weapon or whatever and showed up in defense of your friends.

Anti vs Pks days on Atlantic was very fun.

I certainly died more than I lived but there was a certain pride in standing your ground.

I made some great lifelong friends that way.
 

Lady Storm

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tell me about the math degree you need for todays armor set up!!!
Back then there was just the average stuff, best being invun that covered weapons, armor, shield.
No need to call on Cal Tech to do the calculations of armor degrees or the complex math computations of your weapons set up.
You did have to watch out you didnt get looted with that Invun Sword.... they were hard to get. (side note: I still want to know how Yanaki got in my bank box to swipe my invun sword....... tricky little imp collected invun) :rolleyes:
 

The Zog historian

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tell me about the math degree you need for todays armor set up!!!
Back then there was just the average stuff, best being invun that covered weapons, armor, shield.
No need to call on Cal Tech to do the calculations of armor degrees or the complex math computations of your weapons set up.
You did have to watch out you didnt get looted with that Invun Sword.... they were hard to get. (side note: I still want to know how Yanaki got in my bank box to swipe my invun sword....... tricky little imp collected invun) :rolleyes:
Vanquishing sword, didn't you mean? "Invulnerable" was for armor.

Top items were pretty rare, even with killing a lot of lich lords and balrons. Then they started spawning on escortable noble NPCs. Snoop, lead out of town, kill for those shiny new plate gloves of invulnerability. :)
 
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Lady Storm

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Yup you are exactly right The Zog you got it I was serching my brain for the word ... it was on the tip of my tougue. Vanq for weapons and invun for armor. It was very rare indeed to get one. Its why I was so miffed at Yanaki .. how did that little squirt get in my bank to get it................. my son was not privi to my account back then..... the imp must have sweet talked me into holding it and I forgot to retriev it back....
Point being that armor and weapons were the max and you didnt need a degree in math to know it was the best you could get. These days it takes a student at MIT or Caltech to figure out if the suit and weapons I have are worth it or not..... I think its why I go for tamers alot... not hard to tell if my dragon is good its just aim them at the target and get the b aids out and you got it.
 

FrejaSP

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Damn I miss this guys, it was a great time
Lord Bacardi
Lord Solonor BLB
Lord Fretless BLB
Lady Catti-Brie
Lord Lachdanan
Lord Kain
Lord Reaper
Lady Luthien
Lord Jason II (who is blue btw)
Lord Meth
Lady Beth
Tomahawk of LOK
DevilDog

Let me at a few more to the list, all red but 2 was red anti PK's
Blank Knigth
Felix
Zaigar
Torm
BELiAL AOD
Shadow sword
Man O War
Nemesis
Kali-Mar
Mandarin
Quella Devin
Sir Richard
Win
Gay
Plug
Skyblade
Ishorn Fireash
Malace
Photonic
Han
Lady Zen
Kiljox
Steele
Wisbaug
Devlin
Lancelot
Magerum
Natow
Totem
Flagg
FeelX
Wardragon
 
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