An EPIC FAIL story from my first week in Darkfall

[Noxite]

Hey all.
I joined Darkfall last week after playing some of the MO beta since September, and I'm absolutely loving it! Last night me and 3 members of my guild went on a little pk trip and I wrote a story about it on my guild's forum. But I think it's alot of fun to read and I ought to share it here:

My name ingame is Noxite Morelle, and the other 3 dudes are some guildies of mine. We're all pretty noobish except Devi, who has been a long time casual player.
Wolfberry Runelode (A dwarf)
Feoren Lannis (the guy who organised the trip)
Devi Ante (cool tag-along)

I have another 2 stories that I've written, but one is more focused on a particular guildie's acts and the other is an epic fail story from my time in Mortal Online beta. I might post them if I get some good responses from this one.

I hope you enjoy reading it:

Edit: Since some people REALLY don't get it, it was purely for fun. NOT to show off how good our e-peens can PVP, NOT to have a completely normal pk trip, but to try something a little different and have a cool story to tell afterwards.



How To Look Good Naked, With Gok Wa... Sorry, I Mean; Feoren Lannis

Now, Feoren Lannis doesn't have much tolerance for losing his gear, so he's invented this thing called a "Naked Trip". He runs all the way to the enemy lands, completely naked and tries to gear himself up from killing as many noobs as he can.
Fun or what, eh? So me, Wolfberry Runelode and Devi Ante decide to tag along with him this time. So we all strip our armour off and bank it, then start out on our trek to the Alfar lands.

Four guys, running naked, sticking together. Sounds gay, I know... But this is the way Feoren likes it.
Feoren's formula: Less stuff = less risk + more challenge. More challenge = more fun. Less risk = win.

So all four of us are running, running, running, keeping ears open for any sign of an enemy close by, hitting each other for the fun of it, etc, etc. When finally we reach a small area that is pretty dense with big rocks and alien-looking plants/trees.
The 'Public' chat bar starts flickering green; two reds are nearby duelling, we look into the distance and we can see them sitting down on the floor resting and sharing a bit of the "GG, Nice fight" chat. All four of us hide behind a tree to see who they are and whether we could take them, when a THIRD red comes riding up to them. Now, sure, there's four of us, but we're NAKED, and they are fully geared. So we figure that we don't really have any chance and we decide to go back, and go around them. But just as we turn around, the reds suddenly spot us and start running towards us! Quickly, we shout on vent to run into the dense area and each pick a hiding spot.
We all either hide behind some random bush or a rock etc, and we're all pretty far apart from each other. We sit there for a little while wondering if the reds are going to ambush us and pick us off one by one. So Devi Ante says in public chat: "Hello" "We come in peace". Great! Now they'll think that we're some roleplaying naked faggots, looking for a spot in the wilderness to have some bum-fun together! Nice one Devi!

However, there is no reply from the reds and we sit there thinking that they are keeping their mouths shut while they try find us in these bushes. Suddenly, somebody gets attacked! THE REDS HAVE FOUND US! So we all jump out of the bushes running around to see where the hell they all are! It took us a good 10 seconds to work out that we've been hiding all this time in a raptor nest! And it wasn't the reds attacking, it was a fucking raptor! So we all get our bows/starter weapons and try to kill this raptor, while Wolfberry is running as fast as he can on his little dwarven legs away from this raptor! Unfortunately, these raptors are pretty damn fast and it pretty much rapes Wolfberry, striking him down to the ground. Next, the raptor comes after me! I start running around, shooting it but my naked body is no match for this god damn raptor, and it instantly kills me! So now I'm hit with this loading screen while I'm being ported back to Copperdale and listening to all this "OH SHIT" "THIS WAY, THIS WAY" "KEEP RUNNING" "SHOOT THE GOD DAMN THING" "UH-OH ANOTHER RAPTOR INCOMING!!!" over vent. Then suddenly it goes all silent.

I ask "Did we kill it? How many of us are still alive??". To which I get the reply: "None of us, we're all dead."

Shit... We just spent 30 minutes running all the way to the Alfar lands, EXPECTING to be ganked by some reds sooner or later, but we all end up being raped by a bunch of frigging raptors.

If there is anything we learnt today, it's that; There is no such thing as "Peace" in Darkfall.


"We come in peace"
Devi Ante's last words.

[Zezune]

Welcome to darkfall, it could always use more nakid no-risk ganker trash.

[DeciusBreakbane]

haha epic story mate. I loved it!

Also welcome to Darkfall, and fun tales like that is all Darkfall is about if you ask me :)

[Makestro]

I love how people actually travel in groups into newbie lands lol.

[Noxite]

I think some people are forgetting why we play games; Fun

[Torder]

Funny story that :)

And yea those raptors are nasty, I was going from dwarf to elf land and got attacked halfway, first I'd lost my mount so I was on foot,
and these creatures are fast on their feet and bite hard, so eventually I ended up back in dwarf startup again x)

Oh well you learn the ropes :)

[Zezune]

I think some people are forgetting why we play games; Fun

Yup, I bet the newbs you were going to gank would have had a hell of a lot of fun fighting guys who risk nothing while they put their gear on the line.

It was so much fun back at launch that they removed skill gain from the newbie weapons. Yup, can't have people having too much fun.

[Noxite]

Yup, I bet the newbs you were going to gank would have had a hell of a lot of fun fighting guys who risk nothing while they put their gear on the line.

It was so much fun back at launch that they removed skill gain from the newbie weapons. Yup, can't have people having too much fun.

You make your own fun

Now please, stop. it's just a game :S

[Preston]

Loved it, keep writing them!

[KoKane]

FYI, that forumla is only viable if you are very very new to the game.
As time goes by, dont complain about being out damaged or out healed by other people, if thats the forumla you're gonna follow.

[ProfRed]

Aha great story! I love when the AI owns players. Especially ones grouped and in vent together.

[Noxite]

FYI, that forumla is only viable if you are very very new to the game.
As time goes by, dont complain about being out damaged or out healed by other people, if thats the forumla you're gonna follow.

We're perfectly aware that people with more stuff have more advantage in combat. I don't know why you felt you had to point out the obvious.

It was just for fun, not an actual PVP tactic.

[Esudar]

now imagine you had gear on and would have survived it

[wormw00d]

I'll give you an obvious tip. Don't reply to the negative posts in threads that you start. It's called feeding the trolls, unless you are laying troll bait and arguing w/ trolls entertains you...in which case Nevermind.

I like to do that from time to time as well, especially w/ the newcomers to the clan/game. Often times they dont have much and even though they know that what they do have isnt exactly valuable they dont want to lose it. So well do lke you, and run naked to start out. If we happen by an easy spawn well kill it once and gear off of what we find. When we can get a gank (the cheaper the better) well gear up from that as well. Most times we end up back at town a mount or 2 richer and packing a big stack of arrows and ez monster lewts that our newbies can sell for gold or grind with.

The naked runs are a lot of fun to do from time to time.

[Noxite]

I'll give you an obvious tip. Don't reply to the negative posts in threads that you start. It's called feeding the trolls, unless you are laying troll bait and arguing w/ trolls entertains you...in which case Nevermind.

I like to do that from time to time as well, especially w/ the newcomers to the clan/game. Often times they dont have much and even though they know that what they do have isnt exactly valuable they dont want to lose it. So well do lke you, and run naked to start out. If we happen by an easy spawn well kill it once and gear off of what we find. When we can get a gank (the cheaper the better) well gear up from that as well. Most times we end up back at town a mount or 2 richer and packing a big stack of arrows and ez monster lewts that our newbies can sell for gold or grind with.

The naked runs are a lot of fun to do from time to time.

Haha yeah, sometimes you just can't help it though. Ignorance annoys me. Especially when it can provoke other readers to respond in the same way. >.<

I'm glad there is someone else who also understands the fun of naked trips :D

[HighTime]

Noxite you are a complete noob, but i enjoyed your story and your posts in this thread.

overall id call it a win

[Noxite]

Noxite you are a complete noob

I know! Isn't it just great!?!? :D

[Zeil]

Love the story... and to me this is a good part of what darkfall is about.

That being said... it should not be equated to geared vets repeatably hanging around starter town mobs day in and day out.

They took the time (geared or not) to go after a racial enemy.

We need more of this.

[Radeth]

I make these kind of trips too,and i like them a lot!

Sadly I used to travel around with my friends naked (or with a "cloth armor" i was able to craft back then to better melt with the environment XD) a lot more in the first months of darkfall..now they got all serious and busy with every kind of grinding/crafting and there's less time to travel just for the fun of it.

Though differently from yours, my "noob exploration trips" as i call them where more aimed at exploration,discovering lots of the endless nice and well detailed places of Agon and they were more likely "let's hope we don't cross anyone's path on the way" kind of trips.

We had even enough luck to find some player tomb to scavenge on our way sometimes,and we once found a guy inside a building in that nanic style city SW of the center of the world lvling up his riding against a wall..I don't have to tell you what happened to him,though i can tell you his mount was in my friend's backpack in less than 2 mins (his first mount!!).

Then we stopped for a while and started again (only 2 or 3 times though,as we already had visited almost every corner of the main continent) when they put in the game chaos chests.

Can't think of any other game where exploring could be so fascinating and enjoyable, if you have enough fantasy and open-mindness(?) to fully appreciate it.

P.S.: of course, many of these trips ended with us cursing mob X or player X for killing us/spotting us/finding us in our hidings..but also as many times we managed to hide/fool/escape and that's a way of having fun in a game too many ppl think as PvP based..this doesn't mean i don't like to fight with others or that i don't have fun doing so,NOW (after many months of casual playing) i do..but when you are new to the game this can be a way of having fun after being owned in a fight.. :P

[Marilio]

funny shit.

[Bael deGrey]

good stuff.

[drogan]

haha I found your story very entertaining, reminds me of the good old days during launch.

[Stillego]

Wolfberry Runelode (A dwarf)
Stopped there.


...although a dorf did rez me today.

[P4Я4N0ID]

Cool story bro!;)

[SpawNmoreover]

moral of the story ?

Not even the raptors gonna like you !

[-morph-]

:D

Nice! Ignore the player haters - they are just jelous loners with no friends that can only dream of one day having their own threeway gay naked gang to roam the starter lands with.

[Noxite]

Thanks for all the positive replies guys, I'm really glad you liked it :D

I guess I'll post more of my stories ever so often ^^

[DeManiac]

This sounds exactly like the trips I used to do when I was new to to the game, and wanted pvp training.

I ran and killed easy mobs on the way, and fought the first player I encountered.
Was great fun.

Had especially nice time with Bag and Swords, they had a hamlet I always visited, never could I fully take control of it, but often I at least succeeded to get 1 or 2 down, losing whatever regents and rank 0 weapons I picked up along the way.


It's allot more fun to find the pvp and get raped, rather then be found and be raped, because when you find the pvp, you are already prepared to lose whatever you carry, when you get jumped, you might have more then your willing to give away.

So I believe this is one of the more entertaining things you can do if your alone or just a few people and have nothing else to do :)

[Noxite]

It's allot more fun to find the pvp and get raped, rather then be found and be raped, because when you find the pvp, you are already prepared to lose whatever you carry, when you get jumped, you might have more then your willing to give away.

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[Malkahv]

haha great story!