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Here is an old one of mine, writed long ago. It's edited later, the comment in () were added right after the rep patch.
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My life in Britain (this story is writing before the rep patch came out).
I started my life in UO new years evening, I started as a smith char, got me a pickaxe and walk outside town to get some ore, and make some ingots, the first I meet outside town was a Ettin a big ugly monster with 2 heads and I got kill, I went back to the town, I was a ghost, and did not know, where the healers was, and I could not make contact to any players, (I did not know, that they not was able to see me), then I saw an other ghost, and he show me, where to find the healers.
Now I had problems, I had no more money, and no pickaxe, and no way to make money, I did not like to beg players for help, but I was new, and had no friends. So I had no choice, I went to the bank, and a nice guy gave me 200gp and a lumber axe, told me to buy a hammer and make wood shield. I was very happy, now I was able to move on.
When I was mining near despise a dread lord came, I don’t remember his name, he look at me and say, ”you are new, so you will stay alive”, and he left me, and I think, what, are some people going to kill me, I did not know that, later, when I was lumbering, and was overloaded, there came an other dread lord, his name was Blank Knight and he ask what was wrong, when I try to move, I got so scared, I could not speak, I'm real female, and my English was very bad, when I started, but he also let me stay alive. (I meet him after the rep patch, now he is blue and one of my friends)
The next dread I meet, came in the mining cave near despise, he kill me fast, and I rez, but he kill me again, I rez again, and of some reason, he could not take my stuff, I don’t know why, I run after him and say, that I want my stuff back, he say, that he took nothing, I went back to my body, and I could not take my stuff, before the body was gone. I learn not to rez, I had lost a lot of skill, that hurt, and it took long time before I got them back.
I got kill 2 time more in the mine the next week's, but one day, where I was alone in the mine, dread lord Zargar came, I had not seen him before, I got scared, he say, that he need a hammer, I gave him my hammer, a little after he went back, it was a smith hammer he need, I gave him my smith hammer, I had my tinker tools, and I was able to make a new one, and I work a little more, then he came back, now he need ingots, here goes my ingot's I think, and I ask how much he need, 117 he say, that was what I have in my bag, so he had snooped me
), I gave him 90, and say, I need some my self (if I lose my shovel), then he ask how much he should pay for the ingot's, I was still afraid for him, and I say 400 gp, he told me, that was to little, and I say that was special price to him, he say he would came back with the money, and a moment after, he was back, he gave my some money, I don’t look how much, and I say thx, he say, I should look how much he gave me, and say he don’t need special price, there was 550 gp, he started make some armor or weapon, and I say, that was nice to meet a dread with out get killed, he told me, that he never kill miners (It took 10 months or more before I found him again, on one of the messages boards)
Then I started hunting with an other miners, and I got killed a few times in the forest, but most times I just ran from there fireball's, then I started to learn magic, and I learn to recall and hide, and I started to go to covetous, and kill harpy’s and I got a bow, and before I know it, was I Great Lady Freja Master Archer.
I also got a house with a guy, he told me, that he want to be a pk, and he wanted me to be it too, but I would not kill people. We got the house with 2 vendors, and he become dread, I learn to know some of his friends, my first PK friends, and some stop me and ask me about him, I learn that PK’s could be nice to me, and good and loyal friends too, like my blue friends, and I stop fear the PK’s so much, I could let them in the house, and I could trust them, then I started to try to get the PK’s I meet as friends.
That gave me a lot of fun, but it is not always easy, some of them don't want to talk, even when I went back to them 3 or 4 times, and there is some I don't like and don’t want to learn to know, but most of them is nice, and when I meet 2-3 of my red friends with hunting and 2-3 I did not know, I learn to know them too.
A lot of times, am I get attack by 6 guy's, before they saw it was me, and I or some of them yell Stop.
I die once, I was to close to some anti’s, and a good friend of mine, Man O War, got me, before I could stop him, but he got my stuff for me, with 7 anti’s around him, then he call me via ICQ, and told me to go to my house, then he gated me to the chaos shine, I had never been there before, someone kill me when I got res, and I lost the gate, then I call him and told him to make a gate more, and I res and run in the gate, and I was home at my house again, I took my key from my vendor, and we walked in. I got most of my stuff back, one of the antis got 200 bolt, I never got them back, and 2 of my guild members(some of the anti’s) had a little of my stuff, they call me, one of my guild members was to scared to try to get some of my stuff, he know the PK was my friend, and was afraid he would kill him if he took something, but I sure, he would not do that, my pk friend told me, that my guild members had the rest of my stuff, so he did know, that some of the anti’s was from my guild. He was alone, when he killed me, and he did not run, when there were 8 around him. I like really that guy. (Keep in mind, in old days most blue was very clumsy to PvP)
The guy I had house with lost his dread char, and started a new, he got strong, and he was a NPK for long time, and I don’t want to have much to do with him, then he went dread again, that was better, but he is strong now GM archer and 8 circle mage, and one night, when he was with 2 others, I not had seen before, there was dead body’s all around the house, I told them, that I don’t like when they killed players close to me, players must think, I was bad too, and I can’t fight my friends, they accept that.
When I meet my red friends in the forest, they sometimes hunt monsters with me, and most time, they let me get the loot, when I stood with a blue friend, one of them came and told me, that there was 2 troll's south, and he did not attack the guy I stood with, I had just learn to know him, he attack me, and when we was fighting, I talk to him, and ask him to wait, and we talk, and I got a friend more, a nice guy, I think he will be one of my best friends. (I lost him, I think he quit with the rep(when we got stat loss))
I never get any of their loot, from there kill, only from monsters, and I don't spy for them, and I don’t help them with there killing. The blue players who know me accept, that I have PK friends, and I did not get blue enemies because of that, only once a guy attack me, because he was got kill 4 times that day, but he ran, when my bow auto attack. Some day's later, I help him with some monsters, and ask him why he attack me, when I told him my stories, he wanted to be my friend. That my stories, and how I got so many PK friend's. (After the rep, he became a thief pk)
I'm Great Lady and I had never killed a player, if I see someone who need help, I try to help, even if it’s a PK, there had try to kill me the day before, only problem is that I can't heal them, and attack blue players who tried to kill red players, who’s not evil, with out losing noto, I don't want to get red. I don’t se no reason to, that I can’t heal a red guy, there is close to get kill of monsters, I can only helping with killing the monsters, and giving him some GH potions if I have some. (Here is the new system a lot better, now you don’t get red from healing reds)
I don't look at a players color to see, how he is, there is a lot of evil blue, and a lot of nice red in the game.
That was my main char Freja’s stories, I have a char more, Archer Girl, I hope her stories will be different, it already is, she had never been a newbie, she did know the world, when she was born. She is born to be a bad girl, but until now, she had been nice too, and until she get a lot of power, she will stay nice.
When she is ready to join her pk friends, I hope she will be a nice pk, with a lot of honor, but I will let her kill players, just not newbie’s and other weak players, or players there fight with monsters.
But how do I play a pk, who ask a player for his stuff or his life, if he just recall, when he see me?
I only want to kill evil blue players, or players who attack me just because I'm red, I hate that kind of players, I had seen a lot of none evil red players got kill without any reasons.
But I know I must learn to kill, if I will play a pk
), that will not be easy for me, but I want to play the evil side of the game too, and I'm sure, I will get a lot of fun with this player too, and I know I have friends there will help me with my first kill. I think a looter or an npk will be my first victim, and I will like to see them die for my hand.
Freja will always be a nice girl (oops, she got boring, and it was her who joined a pk guild, and become a role-playing pk), and don't ran or recall if you see Archer girl, even when she get the title Dread Lady Archer Girl Master Archer, (she never get that, the rep system ruin that) I hope she always will speak before she attack, and if you know her now, don’t fear her, she won't hurt you, if she remember you.
My stories it true, many non PvP players don’t believe them, because, for them the UO world is black and white, they do miss a lot of the game, because they always run, and have to much fair, or just not like to get scared, maybe they are afraid for there own feeling.
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I did write this long ago, some before the rep patch and some after. The comments in () are added later, but still long ago. It’s all from before Siege was born, before Trammel and T2A. It was my best time in UO. I’m sure I have more stories from that time; it was an amazing time and an amazing game.
I was 43 years, when I started to play. My son came home with the game; he wanted to use my internet and computer. I was excited when I saw it and he told me to make a char and then he left me alone with the game.
He was wise enough to know, he could make me to play, he would be able to play too. After 3-4 months, we got a program to share the modem, and we got an account more. We did both have chars on old account, so we had to share the new account too and then switch between them so we still play the old account. That was the reason I made Archer Girl, she was on the new account. Archer Girl is lost forever, my son do have that account now and I have the old account.
