Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

#36300265539 06/20/2007 14:43:34 Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

I have been informed there is to be a party in the Merovingian's and the liaison's honor. It will be at Club Masamune at 4:30 P.M. Mega City Time this Friday.

Also from what I understand, it is a Merovingian only affair so please only Merovingian operatives come on over because the other organization's operatives will most likely be turned away at the door.

-Roger "BloodlustV" Decon

#36300265856 06/21/2007 02:14:03 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

We can always try.

#36300265889 06/21/2007 03:59:43 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

I will sneak in with one of my Merovingian friends, BloddLustV. Whoops kinda revealed my plans. *giggles*

#36300266163 06/21/2007 12:12:39 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Dark_Rider wrote:

I will sneak in with one of my Merovingian friends, BloddLustV. Whoops kinda revealed my plans. *giggles*

As long as you do not drink all the wine, mes ami. I look forward to seeing you there.

#36300266374 06/21/2007 19:38:13 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

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#36300266608 06/22/2007 03:30:38 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Cabolt wrote:

Dark_Rider wrote:
I will sneak in with one of my Merovingian friends, BloddLustV. Whoops kinda revealed my plans. *giggles*

As long as you do not drink all the wine, mes ami. I look forward to seeing you there.

Well I won't be drinking, that's for sure, so I guess I'll be there.

#36300266711 06/22/2007 07:01:25 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

(( What time is this English time? GMT hopefully I'll be back from comedy night ))

I guess I might try and make an appearance...Hmm, yes.

- Ð

#36300266724 06/22/2007 07:20:11 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Dragonram wrote:

(( What time is this English time? GMT hopefully I'll be back from comedy night ))

I guess I might try and make an appearance...Hmm, yes.

- Ð

(It's 4:30pm EST, 8:00pm GMT, though I might be wrong ^^)

#36300266730 06/22/2007 07:47:38 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

I might not be able to make it, we'll see. Caillech sends word however that she might make an appearance.

((As far as I know, Mega City Time = Pacific Standard Time. So 4:30 PST = 7:30 EST = 11:30 GMT))

#36300266774 06/22/2007 08:57:27 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Harpalos-mxo wrote:

I might not be able to make it, we'll see. Caillech sends word however that she might make an appearance.

((As far as I know, Mega City Time = Pacific Standard Time. So 4:30 PST = 7:30 EST = 11:30 GMT))

wouldn't it be 12:30 PM for the UK?

#36300266804 06/22/2007 10:20:59 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

I will be sure to make an appearance, a lot of the other members of Section 9 will be there too.

Not made by me:

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#36300266872 06/22/2007 11:54:06 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

so will there be an org lock thing in effect?

#36300267267 06/22/2007 19:00:11 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Those machines are so.....eViL

#36300267285 06/22/2007 19:30:39 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Nothing personal. Your leader now should know better than trying to outsmart us. Let's say that tonight's events were only a severe warning.

#36300267300 06/22/2007 19:52:12 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Anyone else feel kinda railroaded?

I wasn't there so i don't know what actually happened, I'm just going on rumors, but from what I've heard this was by far the worst attempt SOE has made at a live event.

#36300267364 06/22/2007 23:28 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Shinryu wrote:

*shrug* Things happen... some of them, you may not like. As Vogt said, a warning. And hopefully one The Frenchman will heed.
(( and I agree about the event being anti-climactic... especially with all of the build-up on the Machinist side of things, it just kind of.. fizzled at the end. ))

((Probably didn't help that we were told to meet at a club at 4:30 MCT and no liaison or LET showed up until 6:00 MCT, long after several Merv's had lost interest and chalked it up to BS))

#36300267382 06/23/2007 00:30 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Devistate wrote:

Shinryu wrote:
*shrug* Things happen... some of them, you may not like. As Vogt said, a warning. And hopefully one The Frenchman will heed.
(( and I agree about the event being anti-climactic... especially with all of the build-up on the Machinist side of things, it just kind of.. fizzled at the end. ))

((Probably didn't help that we were told to meet at a club at 4:30 MCT and no liaison or LET showed up until 6:00 MCT, long after several Merv's had lost interest and chalked it up to BS))

Yeah, I eventually cleared off at 2:15AM after having stood round like an idiot from 12:30AM....well, 11:30PM if you want to get technical and include the whole "getting there and seeing whats going on" thing you do.

I eventually saw Persephone turn up at stupid o'clock and pretty much go on /dance3 /afk, at which point i put my foot through the screen and went to bed.

Sooo.....I'm guessing....machines gatecrashed and killed the mervs?

i mean, i thought the "event" the night before (wear this costume then.....go run round the city for no reason whatsoever with no objectives, k thx) was vaguely stupid, but wow. 3 hours of standing round at a party to "honour liaisons" with no actual liaisons present is a new one for me.

#36300267477 06/23/2007 07:45 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Procurator wrote:

Of course you didn't have time to prepare for a fight. That's why it's called a 'surprise attack'. The entire party was a ruse by the Machines, and this was all done to show that the Merv is not in control of the Matrix, as he seems to think he is.

well, i wouldn't call it a "surprise" attack as such - someone in the club was warning everyone the machines would be gatecrashing not long after the "party" - and I use the term loosely - started.

the problem is, we had to wait round up to 3 hours for something to actually happen other than standing around bored.

when Persephone went dance / afk (presumably so rarebit could go jump into the boots of whoever was running the machine show), I just gave up and switched off. complete waste of an evening - stupidly innacurate time given for the "party" to start, inaccurate description of the party (i guess i was supposed to send my merv liaisons "honour" via my magic telepathy beams because they certainly weren't in attendance) and by the time something interesting happened, most had left the building.

i'm really stuggling to recommend this game to people at the moment, and this is coming from someone who regularly writes about it in a (more often than not) positive tone. i mean - "come play this game, there's nothing more awesome than a live event involving standing round for 4 hours?" meh.

someone needs to dig out a picture of comic book guy from the simpsons and have him saying "worst. event. ever." I'd do it, but its too depressing to think about.

out of nowhere, we've suddenly had two live events in two consecutive days.

unfortunately, they both sucked.

#36300267487 06/23/2007 08:14 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

odj wrote:

this merv salutes you.

#36300267587 06/23/2007 12:47 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote:

odj wrote:
Image[worse event ever]

Hello odj and welcome to mxo,
you participated in 7% of the operation(from my calculations), and were getting ganked every minute and a half(says the log)
Did you enjoy your time on the ladder? I enjoyed shooting you off it. Remember each org has events specific to them.

..I'm confused...you do realise they posted that "worst event ever" picture at my request and thats not necesarily how they feel about it, right? Seems a little odd to start hammering them about being killed on ladders because of an image post that relates to something I asked them to whip up.

It was indeed a contender for "worst. event. ever." Heck, its on my list of potential worst ANYTHINGS, ever.

At least if I'd stood around in my garden for four hours, I could have got some fresh air. As it is, we had to listen to fred freaking durst for most of the evening then watch Persephone go into /afk and wonder if that was the sum total of the "event". Then log out and wonder why we'd bothered.

To the mervs: You got a party, cake and a visit, it isn't so bad.

Uh, okay, standing round for 3 or 4 hours wondering what on earth was supposed to be going on "isn't so bad".

Unsurprisingly, I disagree - and I disagree to the extent that blood vessels in my eyes are bursting and dribble is flinging its way out of my mouth and onto the walls.

Bring out your comic book guy pictures, my brethren! Hand me your snark, and your annoyance and your pictures of railroads!

Seriously, if a liaison posts up on the forum stating a time and a place for what is obviously supposed to be a live event - and that happens on the forum how often? - then is it too much to expect not to have to stand around watching a handful of characters on a monitor repeating the same dance emotes for more than 3 hours?

nobody was there for a "party". nobody cared. all we were there for, was to fulfil the promise of the event that had been telegraphed to us from outer space.

Its not often a live event rubs me the wrong way. Even turning up halfway into an event usually results in something fun.

but this?

oh god, no.

this was waiting round for a corruptor to spawn, only with NO corruptor and the addition of even MORE hours of nothing happening.

Disastrous, and a vaguely large one finger salute to anyone who put good faith into the pre-arranged notion that yes, something would be happening on or around this particular time, only to find themselves shafted in the most ludicrous and downright baffling way imaginable.

Not one of the live event teams most glorious moments.

#36300267598 06/23/2007 13:11 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote:

Paperghost wrote:
..I'm confused...you do realise they posted that "worst event ever" picture at my request and thats not necesarily how they feel about it, right? Seems a little odd to start hammering them about being killed on ladders because of an image post that relates to something I asked them to whip up.
Yes I am aware of that. But he still posted it.

......yes, because I asked him to post an expression of my annoyance at the event. This doesn't necesarily reflect his opinion of the event. We can post the same thing again if you like, though I'd rather not.

Paperghost: Unsurprisingly, I disagree - and I disagree to the extent that blood vessels in my eyes are bursting and dribble is flinging its way out of my mouth and onto the walls.

You: It's unfortunant you feel this way.[/.quote]

...no, its unfortunate that you won't be able to gatecrash any more "parties" because anyone attending said party won't actually be attending, because they don't fancy standing in a room for four hours and so will have long since cancelled their account and not be playing.

awesome way to micro manage the players!

Paperghost: Seriously, if a liaison posts up on the forum stating a time and a place for what is obviously supposed to be a live event - and that happens on the forum how often? - then is it too much to expect not to have to stand around watching a handful of characters on a monitor repeating the same dance emotes for more than 3 hours?

You: I do admit, your Fun wasn't a primary concern of our planning.

Hi, please drop the in character stuff because I'm talking about something that has no relation to being in character. Otherwise, you're going to be answering a bunch of points with what will mostly be irrelevant Merv bashing.

Who said anything about "fun"?

We're talking about the mechanics of playing the game, herding the players from location A to location B at time C, to perform a variety of different actions.

You know, how to make a live event be a live event.

If you planned to have a bunch of people standing round for 3 to 4 hours doing nothing, then expected to gatecrash the party expecting an epic, pulsating battle then I guess you were probably disappointed to find half the people there had already left and that means your planning totally, utterly sucks and you should never "plan" anything ever again.

Except, unless you're in LESIG or you happen to be Rarebit in disguise, *you* didn't actually plan anything, did you?

If you can convince me that making a large group of players stand in a room for 3 or more hours for no reason whatsoever is somehow a good thing, then I might reconsider my stance but I somehow doubt this is going to happen. But please, feel free to try.

#36300267603 06/23/2007 13:19 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

odj wrote:

I liked the event. =|

too late, you posted comic book guy and now must suffer for all eternity, apparently. for what its worth, i thought was the best. comic book guy. ever.

#36300267620 06/23/2007 14:05 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote:

PaperGhost:
>...no, its unfortunate that you won't be able to gatecrash any more "parties" because anyone attending
>said party won't actually be attending, because they don't fancy standing in a room for four hours and so
>will have long since cancelled their account and not be playing.

You: I think in this case using up our one time party trick was worth the cost

..."worth the cost"? if people don't want to turn up to live events anymore and / or cancel because they think something else like this might happen down the line, that's "worth the cost"?

Is that the sound of lots of other players on other servers wondering if the same fate will suddenly befall them too?

You do realise that with an almost complete lack of original static content, the only thing thats actually keeping people playing - the very lifeblood of the game - hinges on not making a total and utter shambles of the live events?

So making a big bunch of players stand round like idiots for up to four hours and quite likely turn some of them away from a game that doesn't have the biggest userbase to begin with - thats logical how?

PaperGhost:

>Who said anything about "fun"?

You
: Well your posts make it obvious you didn't have fun at the event, you mentioned things about your
eye balls and also mentioned the Idea of account cancelling because of the event. This would be due to a lack of fun had?

If your assumption that the only positive reaction to taking part in an event is derived from the partaking of "fun" is right, then yes, you are correct. However, people (including myself) take part in events for all sorts of reasons that don't necessarily relate to "fun".

Try replacing the word "fun" with "having expectations managed" within the setup of the event you planned.

Then replace "having expectations managed" with "pretty much total disregard for peoples time / lives / whatever" - while STILL expecting those people to be relieved when you turn up after four hours and then interact with you ingame to complete your event, by means of PVPing and completing the outline of whatever goal you had for your event in the first place. Besides which, why would you expect anyone to have "fun" by watching dance animations loop for four hours anyway?

does. not. compute?

PaperGhost:

>We're talking about the mechanics of playing the game, herding the players from location A to location
>B at time C, to perform a variety of different actions. You know, how to make a live event be a live event.

You: Maybe it will become more apparent in the next few days.

The only thing thats "apparent" is that someone screwed up, and screwed up majorly.

What were you doing within the Machine camp that required you to do whatever you were doing for such a long period of time before showing up?

And if you knew it would take that long, did no one stop to think that, you know, making all those people hang around for such a long period of time might not be the greatest idea?

PaperGhost:

>Except, unless you're in LESIG or you happen to be Rarebit in disguise, *you* didn't actually plan anything, did you?

You:There were only five operatives who knew about this mission and assisted in planning, yes I was one of them.

Then sadly, your planning is indeed awful.

But again - please explain to me how making all those players wait around for up to four hours for you to turn up and make the event happen - which is, after all, what we were waiting for and the machine operatives too - comes anywhere close to "good planning".

#36300267626 06/23/2007 14:26 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Also, another potential side effect - wasting three or four hours of someones time would be bad enough for US based players, but think of the Euro / elsewhere players who sat around till 2 or 3 am wondering what on earth was supposed to be happening. Think they'll be happy to hang around when more live events are "promised" to them in this way?

I doubt it, unless they enjoy playing "bait and switch" as a live event. Merv live events are rare enough as it is on Syntax, and this will do nothing to encourage Euro players to stick around to some ungodly hour.

#36300267779 06/23/2007 18:54 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Pyraci wrote:

Yeah, I'm with Ballak, Marias, and Paperghost on this one.

((As I don't feel like writing a long post and wasting more time arguing about the event, I am just going to go with an /agree and leave it at that.

Even the Agent couldn't save this one. SMILEY

))

#36300267893 06/24/2007 00:05 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

/ gaaah stupid post got lost while editing. i hate these forums.

#36300267914 06/24/2007 00:41 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote:

It wasn't 4 hours. The party started at 4:30pm PST, Persephone was confirmed on site at 5:44pm PST, and the club was stormed at 6:25pm PST.

trying again due to post screwing up...

if an event is telegraphed, people will turn up anything from half an hour to an hour before it begins for various reasons.

* doors are locked, whether from the same org or not so there are no mid event interruptions, or a limited amount of places available for said mission
* they don't want to miss something important
* everyone has already left the starting point for the event, which means two hours of chase-the-horde
* roleplayers will presumably want to get there early to get into character and integrate themselves into the upcoming events in a way that suits their style of play

this is common live event practice, and not unreasonable.

With that in mind, there was indeed anything up to 3 hours of standing around. I know one player did actually stay in that club for four hours. To me, that's excessive, but then so is thinking that even TWO hours of standing around - when nobody there was interested for a party, but for the promised live event - is somehow "reasonable" too.

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: It wasn't really your event, It was our event.

perhaps in future then, people might want to refrain from having

1) merv liaisons posting about Merv parties in the events forum, clearly telegraphing an upcoming event that has something to do with....a merv event
2) word being passed down through the merv chain of command suggesting that a merv event was indeed coming up, which was going on BEFORE the post was made on the forum
3) a DJ telling us endlessly that a "special guest" was on the way
4) a live event character turning up at the club, which apparently had some form of org lock placed on it for good measure.

because you know, that sort of suggests......a merv live event.

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: So no one is interested that you had to wait a couple of hours.

Awesome, you're completely missing the point. Events don't take place in a vacuum, and its in everyones best interests for something like this not to happen.

Tell me, if all the mervs had got bored and left, if you had stormed the club and found it to be empty, would you have maybe been a touch more interested in that situation?

if nobody wants to turn up for something like this event again - and they won't - who are you going to shoot at?

I'd wager a lot of machines were fairly annoyed too, considering they swept in and were left with the prospect of killing about ten mervs because everyone had logged off due to boredom and utter puzzlement at where the liaisons where.

does that seem like a productive use of machine operative time?

#36300268039 06/24/2007 07:11 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: What you were told is that there was a party. If word came from the inside that something might happening
and it didn't that is unfortunant. But yes you are correct it doesn't trouble me.

Second verse, same as the first.

At some point in the future, I'll wager it very likely will trouble you....as nobody is ever, ever going to bother turning up to a live event which has been "set up" via a forum posting, especially if it relates to a club (or any other random building), ever again.

However, the shrinking of potential for possible live events is apparently no big deal which "doesn't trouble" you. Heh.

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: You don't even know what the event's purpose is, so you can't say it has nothing to do with the storyline yet.

Well, it doesn't take a genius to see that its a "no one is safe and we're sort of annoyed" statement of intent by the machines. Whether there's anything else attached to that is sort of irrelevant, as is whatever the event actually comprised of.

Peoples issue here is that they were explicitly told by their liaison to be somewhere for a live event involving....liaisons, only to find no liaisons BUT the promise of a "special guest". Then that special guest showed up, dished out some cake and went silent, ignoring everybody while they dance afk'd their behind off.

At that point, most people felt screwed over by this completely surreal non-event, and assumed this was basically it due to there not being any signposting that, you know, there might be more to come. we had one guy who kept telling everyone "the machines are coming!", but after hearing it for three or so hours, we thought it was safe to assume you had all fallen off a cliff or something. Anticipation turned to confusion turned to boredom turned to switching off the PC in disgust.

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: Well I had to stay up until 5am doing the report, if it makes you feel any better.

Not particularly. the experience and sensation of organising a happening, then following it through to its conclusion is somewhat markedly different from someone on dance3 /afk for three hours. Especially if a good chunk of those people didn't even get to see the club massacre, which would have made things somewhat more interesting than the most pointless thing i have ever turned up to in my life.

Once again, nobody was there for a party of any description. We didn't care.

We're not stupid, and it was obvious it was simply supposed to be a pretence for something else.

The problem is it took so long to get there, that the whole thing should have been called off and rescheduled for some other time, as opposed following it through to its trainwreck of a conclusion.

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: I'm not in the optimal time zone either, but when events happen is a seperate issue to wether you
thought it was a poor exuse for an event or not.

Uh, no it isn't. The time spent round waiting is going to be directly related to

a) how many players become so annoyed that they log off because they're so puzzled as to why they've been told to randomly stand in some club for anything up to 3 or so hours (ESPECIALLY if they're in a non-US timezone) and
b) how the remaining players who haven't logged off end up interacting with the opposing force that arrives on the scene in terms of putting up something resembling a decent fight (which wouldn't happen due to point A) and
c) everybody's overall opinion of whether the event as a whole worked or not.

Timing is everything.

Someone should have borrowed one of Flava Flavs clocks and strapped it to their chest for this one, because it might have come in handy.

#36300268144 06/24/2007 13:40 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

caillech wrote:

I agree, standing about, dancing for a few hours wondering what was going down, when it was going down etc etc was no fun to say it mildly.
I have a somewhat different perspective though. There was the potential there for a good event if, and this seems like a big if given all the mistakes made:
1. If our LO's had set the stage, an announcement along the lines of "the machines are very angry at the merovingian and appear to be planning an attack. Be on your guard."
2. Followed by the actual presence of at least one of our LO's at a party advertised as to "honor or LO's."
3. With said LO in attendance at the party getting those present ready for some "event" bogus though that may be
4. No "special indestructable agents" as part of the attack force.
With some set up this could have been a memorable part of the story line. The Machines do in story, have reason to be angry with the Merovingian. The Merovingians have a right to support their leader and should have an honest chance to defend themselves.
Seems to me the two big objections were how long we all waited at the club for the "special guest" to arrive, how useless that all turned out to be, and the special agent and the number of machines in the "surprise" attack.
Granted, surprise attacks are part of any war time strategy and we mervs did get caught sitting so to speak on our respective a--es's, but I go back to my original statement. With just a few tweaks this event could have been fun for all!

Exactly.

To be honest, I'm puzzled as to why "live"players were needed from merv forces at all. Rarebit could have just as easily stuck a bunch of NPC mervs in a club, and you'd have the same end result minus the stupidity of having a bunch of actual people standing round for a few utterly pointless hours.

#36300268177 06/24/2007 16:01 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

d4sh wrote:

I just hope the LE-thread for it will be posted soon. I'm sure the negative thoughts about the event won't change, but at least the idea behind the original operation will be known. Might shed some additional light as to why some choices were made.

I'm sure the negative thoughts won't change as well. You see, what many have forgotten is that this isn't the first time that Merv's have been the target of a Developer initiated Zerg. Don't remember the first one? Look under the LET forums for a topic called 'Of course I'm waiting for back up you imbecile', posted by Flood.

Now yes all of the screen shots in many of the LE posts have vanished so I'll refresh your memories. There's a Machininst event going on when all of the sudden Merv operatives are hit with a request to provide Flood with assistance. This was in regards to cheat code research. Somewhere around 6 or 8 Mervs show up at the provided location to find the building full of Machinist operatives, at least 30 and that's probably a very low estimate for when we were force flagged it was nothing but a sea of red.

I think the problem with things like this is as followed: Yes, many of us have other Org alts so we know who is doing what and when they are doing it. The biggest factor here is some people pass on this info they learn from one character to another org, most likely their own character at that. Machines get an event where the Cyphs did the dirty work, they get teleported to thw White Rooms so there's no interference. Cypherites have on at least 2 occasions been teleported to lower level constructs to prevent high level resistance. Mervs got an event a few weeks ago where they got sent to 0-1 where by some miracle Mach and Cyph knew about it and showed up only for Mervs to be repaid with this most recent event, after being sent running around aimlessly with Commando disguises on as a diversion throgh the city.

The reward, a 'party' ((announced on the forums, first warning bell right there)) where only Mervs operatives showed up for at least an hour after the scheduled time. Am I mad? Nope. As I said before I knew that after waiting for an hour with no LESIG or LE shows that something stupid was up, especially when most of us had already found out about the ongoing Machine event. That's why I burned off. I'm simply stating facts and explaining why a lot of Mervs are probably pissed and have somewhat of an apathetic view of things at this time.

#36300268185 06/24/2007 16:25 A different perspective.

One thing that has occurred to me, due to the fact that I am a recent returnee to the game is how this event would look to new players or Merovingian Operatives who have only recently come aboard. Personally, while I think this was horribly handled event, I'm able to accept it for what it is.

The thing is this, I've managed in my month back to level to thirty, and as such, I don't mind being the occasional CQ point for the sake of fun or rp. People have seen me flag up surrounded by 50's just for the pure fun of getting to take a shot now and again. BUT, again, were I a new player who had just come around, been made aware of a party via the forums, stood around for hours then been force-flagged and later mocked by the overwhelming number of pwnjoo machine players who were there, it would seriously make me consider where my money was being spent.

New players are skeptical enough, things like this give them a reason to uninstall and cancel. I'm not trying to make that sound like a whine, it was just something that had occurred to me.

#36300268189 06/24/2007 16:31 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Ballak wrote:

"I think the problem with things like this is as followed: Yes, many of us have other Org alts so we know who is doing what and when they are doing it. The biggest factor here is some people pass on this info they learn from one character to another org, most likely their own character at that. Machines get an event where the Cyphs did the dirty work, they get teleported to thw White Rooms so there's no interference. Cypherites have on at least 2 occasions been teleported to lower level constructs to prevent high level resistance. Mervs got an event a few weeks ago where they got sent to 0-1 where by some miracle Mach and Cyph knew about it and showed up only for Mervs to be repaid with this most recent event, after being sent running around aimlessly with Commando disguises on as a diversion throgh the city."
The 01 Construct, Agent Gray did a world broadcast and it led us straight to Ookami.

I understand that Ballak but what I'm getting at is that it sure seems funny that Mach/Cyph get events that can't really be interrupted yet the one time Mervs go to a construct, well.....

#36300268686 06/25/2007 16:42 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

NightTrace wrote:

[[After reading this... I have to say I'm used to seeing this kind of drama on Recursion. I did have a few questions, but if you dont want any outsiders butting him, feel free to tell me to **Welcome to our forums** . After going over the thread, it sounded like a Mech event, that was sold to the Mervs as a merv event. This "event" actually consisted of nothing more then a forced zerging of the Mervs involved right? Now, this is an issue because not only did the mervs get told a certain time, and nothing happend for about an hour, but then their flags were forced on in the face of greatly superior numbers, etc. Then to top it all off, it seems that the mech players themselves "planned" this event? I'm not sure how that works, considering every event I've ever been to, has been planned between LESIG/Rarebit. This player "planned event" was nothing more then a forced gank fest...how the hell does that further the story or end up being enjoyable for anybody but the gankers? Meh...poorly thought out process if you ask me.]]

Woo, my first post on the Matrix boards from America!

Anyway....back to subject....

I'm still wondering what on earth happened to the liaisons during this thing.

Did any of them actually show up near the end? If so, what did they say?

And we still have the truck sized plot hole of a Merv liaison posting the invite in the first place.

The live event post will be....interesting, to say the least.

How does the song go? "I predict a riot"...

#36300268697 06/25/2007 16:52 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

NightTrace wrote:

[[So does this mean I pretty much hit the nail on the head with the "poorly thought out" bit? ]]

Yep, with a hammer the size of Belgium.

#36300268877 06/25/2007 21:00 Re:Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Chainer wrote:

I am truely sorry so many of you misunderstand me.

It's not so much that you are misunderstood. It is that you make statements about the Merovingian Organization without truly being a member because you have wrapped yourself in a cloak of 'your RP'. Saying that *you* were the only one with the balls to tell the Merv how it is earlier in the post. Just because you RP'd it to yourself doesn't make it cannon and in no way reflects on what it means to be a member of the Org.

Since I've been back I've seen you call <Consequence> a bunch of hedonists and followers because we follow the Frenchman and not roleplay 'Exiles' in the way that you have chosen to. Newsflash, everyone in this game, regardless of your RP is a human operative working for one of three Organizations. You are the one who has circumvented this for your needs. And so, when you insult us for following the Merv, and then I see you and CD show up at events like Club Succubus where your own faction mates blather on to the Merv about how they would kill anyone for him if he only just asks, I have to wonder what in the hell you are getting at with your rp. Is it only when you are sitting at TPW that you are a half breed exile?

I'm not trying to be rude, I just really don't understand.

Edit, because I want to clarify that if someone wants to play an Exile or a Vampire or a Lupine or Machine, that's their business, but when they make it their platform to say that is what they are and screw everyone else in the Org name that they carry until Live Events start up, it really bugs me.