Why do you serv the Merovingian?

#11300001739 02/26/2006 11:46:34 Why do you serv the Merovingian?

I mean no disrespect against any players that do serv the Merv!

I just want to know what drives people to actually do his bidding?

I've been a Machinist for over a year and now I switched over to Zion because of my beliefs ....
(and the Machine crits leading nowhere)

I just want to know what is tempting to join his organization?

Hate me flame me ... do what you want ... I just want straight answers from Merv operatives to come to a better understanding with their purpose in serving the Merovingian

Thank You

-TheHun

#11300001740 02/26/2006 11:58:04 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Ookami.

Thank You

-Siros

#11300001741 02/26/2006 12:13:34 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Well, I'm a fairly new redpill, but this is why I have decided to 'serv the merv' as you put it.

I'm not really serving him, I've been released from the matrix and that's all good and well. I was given a chance to explore the questions I had been asking but I didn't sign up to fight for some rightous cause or some machines vendetta.

He lets me do what I want, the way I want. If he ask a favor of me every now and again, sure I'll help him out. He gives me freedom and protects me from these 'causes' and so I thank him for that.

#11300001742 02/26/2006 13:07:12 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

you have your reasons for goin zion after being a machine. well we have ours for being merv. but remember we dont need another org to join with us to stop the other

#11300001743 02/26/2006 13:21:44 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

It is the only organisation that recongises the ambition of an individual. He doesn't insist on blind loyalty, we aren't required to trust him any more that we demand he trusts us, he understands we have our own agenda's and doesn't intrude unless they conflict with his own. I dont want to be led by someone else's morality or conscience as Zion would demand nor do I want the narrow minded quest for stale equilibrium as presented by the Machines. The matrix is a world of oppertunity where our ablities as redpills position us perfectly to aquire and enjoy power, wealth and influence...where else are such aims encouraged?

#11300001744 02/26/2006 13:25:43 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Also the merovingian has more guns....more exile's....more manpower

This is how i see power distributed

In the Matrix

Merovingian>machines>zion

In the real world

Machines>zion>merovingian

Overall Machines>Zion>merovingian

The Machines can destroy the matrix "killing" the merovingian. The Machines can kill the zion ppl in they're hovercraft.

Zion can kill the Merovingian and his programs WITH the help of the machines, if war starts in the matrix

The Merovingian is the loner of the matrix, and he could be attacked at any time or place

#11300001745 02/26/2006 18:14:20 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Tytanya_MxO wrote:
It is the only organisation that recongises the ambition of an individual. He doesn't insist on blind loyalty, we aren't required to trust him any more that we demand he trusts us, he understands we have our own agenda's and doesn't intrude unless they conflict with his own. I dont want to be led by someone else's morality or conscience as Zion would demand nor do I want the narrow minded quest for stale equilibrium as presented by the Machines. The matrix is a world of oppertunity where our ablities as redpills position us perfectly to aquire and enjoy power, wealth and influence...where else are such aims encouraged?

Yes I think Tytanya gave me the best (and most mature) answer here as far as an individuals belief in the Mero organization goes ! I was just trying to understand why people would consider joining that org (other than "My buddy is in it " "*CENSORED* Ookami iz hawt" etc)

I too created an alt once to do the Merv missions outta curiosity ... but I did not see the same treatment from the Merv you guys talking about ... When I could actually speak with him (the NPC him) I was thanked but thrown out quickly , /so he could catch the next party/ , by Flood ...

Granted the other organizations aren't treating you so great either so you can choose whats best for you...

I think now I have a better understanding of why people choose to do the Merovingians bidding....

And I thank you for that!

-TheHun

#11300001746 02/26/2006 13:34:03 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Simply cause the pay is better. And I have freedom of choice.

In general, Zionites expect you to be part of the herd. To abandon all in defense of the Great Cave or blindly bow down to false gods. And Machines, well, they are more rational than Zionites but I can't work long-term for a group that imprisons, enslaves, my family.

The Merovingian promotes a laissez-faire policy. As a Merovingian I run my own hovercraft as I see fit & for paying clients.

#11300001747 02/26/2006 14:58:27 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

I don't "serv" him, we have a mutual agreement. I do some of his dirty work, and I get a little closer to my Queen.

#11300001748 02/26/2006 17:09:47 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

only a few people are actually responding to the question here. i for one dont care what you think the other 2 orgs reasons are nor was it asked here. why do you serv the merv is the question...

and to respond to some of the few who has answered the question,..the machines did what they had to in order to survive. so if your families a battery..its their ancesters faults..and not all people of zion are goats off a cliff...some actually do have their own ideas and follow them.

and to stay on topic myself..i have done machine and merv missions many times.. i did merv missions because i wanted to see how id be treated..i did whatever i wanted and could of had anything as a merv..but still a slave to the matrix nonthe less...so im zion for now..

#11300001749 02/27/2006 06:47:35 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Oops my bad!

hehe thx for moving it SMILEY

#11300001751 02/27/2006 18:18:09 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Well, I'm an Exilist, and I root for the Outcasts and Underdogs. Plus, I value all sentient life including rogue programs. Also, I like to enjoy the finer things the Matrix has to offer. Why not have a little fun? We have Club Hel, Succubi, Ookami, etc. Plus the two times I met with The Merovingian personally he couldn't have been a more perfect gentleman. Very gracious and pleasant to be around. I forgive his ill-temper at times because I realize he's like 600 years old and with all that ennui, I'd be practically sucidal from boredom. Also, he does offer the service of harboring programs schedukled to be deleted into the Matrix. That's a good thing for those of us who, again, value all sentient life (think of Sati....would you have her deleted?)

#11300001752 02/27/2006 19:31:06 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

((OOC))
I chosed Exiles because they were very interesting. Machines are just Agents, and Zion is just Redpills. Exiles are like a melting pot of different programs with different abilities(Vampires and Werewolves.)

((RP))

I was a decorated soldier of the APU Corps. When I was released from the pods I was in my mid teens. I was in the matrix for sometime when an accident caused me to leave my Hovercraft for the APU Corps. When I met the exiles on my return to the matrix I saw a group of people(Just like redpills) taht were being hunted by the machines. The machines attacked the Humans first and I want to stop them before they kill the Exiles.

#11300001753 02/27/2006 19:52:50 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

I address this very topic, extensively, in my Manifesto. I encourage and welcome your thoughts, comments, and critiques on it.

#11300001754 02/28/2006 07:14:46 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Shortly after I was extracted and commissioned in Zion, I was given the task of eliminating exiled programs (via missions), and it became apparent to me that I was terminating these beings not because they necessarily did anything wrong, but because they aren't human and don't comply with the machines. I found this inhumaine because I felt like I was doing the same thing the machines had done to us before the truce. I see humans and exiles as being in a similar situation if you will. We as humans choose to wake up from the Matrix because we for one reason or another, don't accept the illusion that imprisons our minds. In a similar way, the exiled programs don't accept the same system of control that ends their existence when it finds them obsolete. We are all refugees of a system that we choose to live beyond.

In addition, I feel that just maybe we and the machines might have something to learn from the exiles. Sati herself is proof that exiles still have purpose and a right to exist. In working for the Frenchman, I've seen and learned things about the workings of the Matrix of which Zion has no clue, and the machines aren't willing to tell their operatives. Also, in getting to know the Merovingian, I've come to the realization that he is one of the most misunderstood of the figures in the Matrix. The Frenchman knew that the One was part of a system of control, even as he didn't know until he came face to face with the Architect himself. The Merovingian wasn't against Zion, he was against the furthering of machine control. Furthermore, the Frenchman has control over the exiles, and to be at odds with someone with that task is reckless in my view. Love him or hate him, he is the glue that binds the will of the exiles and exile operatives. I believe that without his flag binding them all, Pandora's box would really be opened...

Some see him as evil, as a program that causes nothing but trouble in the Matrix. I see evil as merely a point of view. The Matrix is the only home for the Merovingan and the exiles. We do what we can to protect it, not to destabilize it. Remember that none of the people that lead us as operatives tell us the complete truth. However, I find that I can be allowed to think for myself and find the truth in freedom.

((Sorry for the long-winded speach, but this is the best answer I can give at this time.))

#11300001810 03/08/2006 21:51:07 Re: Why do you serv the Merovingian?

Maybe i should have said "Self-Evident". It's the something that lets you follow your heart and make the choice that just feels right to you, its why I'm Zion and your merv. But besides that:

What do you mean?

I've completely matched the points in your arguments and pointed to cases and evidence in which my point is relative... all you've done is argue the perception of good and evil and said that if no one can truly judge it then its irrelevant... that doesn't make any sense.. at all.

I mean, don't you think the virtual (ha ha.. virtual) enslavement of programs who are fleeing for their lives is wrong?

If you don't really believe that this is what he does then tell me your perception on what he does.

((ps- Come to think of it, i have done quite afew merv criticals))