I think most of the players that had runes to Green Acres got them from Coucilors. Silverthorne was a Smurf, and he had a rune to GA. I think some Smurfs, and some GMs for that matter, broke a few rules back then
Not sure where Ibn got his, but I would almost bet it was from Silverthorne.
Haha definately... Although I know Ibn has been involved in many things, I had no real dealings with him since he was so modest about his things. Perhaps he was himself a counselor. I always thought it was funny how the red owners had blue friends, and that the moderators were in green. Why are those colors so universal ?
I had almost no contact with either the blue or the red, just the seers... there was a strange split in gameplay between those factions and it was just like that they formed, the shadowlords being the last faction created in the split of FoA on many servers...
It's very interesting to think that my account was worth something to the eyes of one of the richest players on atlantic back then. As I told you this was an honest trade. My account against "one of his" and a house, and a million in stuff so I would never have to buy anything to pvp again.
Now my account was quite good, but not that good... it wasn't worth it for him unless he knew about something else.
So I ended up with a character named Brainbug, 7x mage, well setup for pvp and thus my last attempt at shaking sosaria off the evil time-delayed spell mondain had casted. Explosion became oficially time-delayed around those days...
The night of armageddon I tought I had made the server bug with my brain... and now I'm playing a murderer called Brainbug with unique clothes, unique hair and beard dye (noone had that back then) unique jewels, and also I think a unique character skin hue. He was overall very strange, but also very powerful, I would easily kill groups of 3-4 without any help...
ok so has someone followed me around, listening to my ramblings and created this character for me, thinking my account had something magical... or was it another strange Nick-of-Time coincidence ?
Because lemme tell you about that... I managed over 3000 legit kills without one single cheat, all pvp kills, always letting my victims react before I attacked them officially. It still impresses me to this day, I never died in often less than fair circumstances, granted I recalled often !
This brought me about the second highest bounty on the server... it was well over 10 million, but I cannot recall exactly how much... it was a **** load of money worth at ****load in real cash... and with all the new rules I knew I was going to quit the game soon, so I tought I might cash in after all, at least refund what it had costed me to play the game !
Then that night came whence we all felt like the armageddon night, a very intense pvp night I spent with Nick hunting the dungeons and killing everyone. But that night they didn't just die as usual, and we met another friend which we told we were to continue for a while. Now obviously this guy didn't have my best interest at heart, because he most likely treasoned us. We were told to meet at the rune library and I'm pretty sure neither Nick or I even suspected what was waiting for us there.
Around 100 players all tightly packed and hidden with tons of pets... as you can imagine when I felt that much lag I recalled instantly, but it was already too late. When everyone unhid, the lag got so strong that I froze and died under 20 e-bolts and 40 halberds...
Now it starts to get strange again... Nick managed to run to my body, and even if 100 people were piled over it trying to get my head, he managed to snatch it off !!!
In the nick-of-time you say ? Awesome !
Then he said he would meet me at my house and give it back to me... I would have trusted Nick with my account back then, and he certainly proved to be a good guy to put my trust into.
What puzzles me and feeds our mystery is that I don't remember if I got that account and house from him, because he would play many characters that sounded like him but I was never sure if it was him... and there was of course Nikademus which had a strange resemblance, and would show up when Nick would magically dsapear...
Anyhow with your help people I will most likely remember, I never seen one brainwash to be seamless, I'm hoping to uncover more.
So we ran and met at my house, but the server started behaving worse than on the armageddon night...
Was it my brain bugging the server again I tought, everytime it was important something like this happened...
We started warping, not only in time but in space, it would feel like I was going in the past, but also in the future, it was really strange, anyone that remembers this night will agree.
So after one terribly long hour we managed to meet behind my house, and the moment he managed to res me and all seemed pretty much stable... I had decided to res and take the huge penalty (BTW EA, holy crap... 15% of all my skills ?!) because I knew I would quit because it was soo ridiculous and brainbug was all I had left. Nick knew this and this is why he remained to help me with so much diligence... So he tried to drop the head on me but I warped again ! I saw the head drop on the floor, got disconnected, logged back in , we all warped 15 minutes in the past again... but the head was somehow still there when we warped back in normal time...
I ran , almost grabbing it like 5-6 times ! As you can imagine I was terribly nervous and the server wouldn't listen at all...
Then when I finally got there, the moment I put my mouse on the head to grab it, it decayed in my face, one second too late.
I ran around a while trying to figure out f anyone was hidden there, but I was alone.
I have never seen Nick again... although he was on my ICQ all this time and I talked to him often, he vanished, like he didn't really exist.
See this adds to the number of improbabilities I lived along wit him...
Nothing of this makes sense, even today... it's just too much for one human to plan, and just not enough for the development team to plan...
Anyone has any idea ?