Cheater
Hall of Shame When last we saw these two they were acting as a team to gang up on players. Jasbbad challenged a Guild member to a duel, who upon entering the game found himself on a level with both of them - surprise! Of course, a few well-placed fireballs reduced Jasbbad to a smoldering pile of gold and a stinky, waxy ear on the ground (please people, if we're going to be exchanging ears, use Q-Tips!). As soon as his partner was dead BigDaddyCool conveniently disappeared from the game. Ah, loyalty and teamwork among Pkillers. To be fair, this encounter took place a few weeks ago, and it's quite possible these two have cleaned up their act. Possible... but doubtful.
As a follow-up... A few days after the above-described encounter a Guild member saw BigDaddyCool in the Bounty Hunters chat room on Battle.net. The Guild member - feeling puckish - announced to the room that Jasbbad and BigDaddyCool were known to work as a team. Within seconds the Guild member received a whispered message from BigDaddyCool which was pithy and to-the-point: "Do you want to die?". Now, again attempting to be fair, we don't know whether this was a threat or a philosophical quesion. But judging from BigDaddyCool's usual mode of conversation, we'd have to assume he doesn't even know what the word 'philosophical' means, thus rendering the message a threat. And, using the courage that most Pkillers possess, a threat that was never followed up on.
Auria is a known Tkiller who preys on newbies. In a recent game she bravely and heroically killed a level one warrior with a flame wall. A level one ear! A prestigious trophy for a pathetic wretch like Auria. She then had the gall to chide a player with enhanced stats (who was helping the newbie) for cheating! Man, the human mind can rationalize ANYTHING. In any event, Auria is a Tkiller with an even higher level of self-delusion than most of her type.
This one's a classic. Upon entering a game a Guild member was immediately attacked in town by our friend -+BLADE-- (who is so inept that she can't even make a good sword graphic to go with her cliched name). She cast flamewaves, which he easily outran, zipping down into the dungeon. He was joined by another Guild member, who suffered the same attempt by BLADE (screw the graphics) to townkill him. Now, this pissed said Guild members off. So said Guild members challenged Ms. BLADE to enter the dungeon if she was so interested in killing them. The BLADEmeister, who had moments before tried to townkill them, would not come down until our boys agreed to "fight fair", and "no fighting until I say". The gutlessness of townkillers never ceases to amaze us. Luckily, neither does their stupidity, because ol' BLADE accepted our members' assurences of a fair fight and sauntered down the steps to level one... where she was met by a hail of fireballs in the most impressive crossfire since the Kennedy assassination (John, that is - guess we have to be more specific on that topic... ironically, I think his ear flew off, too). As she lay on the ground in a pile of smoldering gold, BLADE chided our boys for reneging on their promise to "fight fair". "Now you know how it feels to be townkilled," they told her as they picked up her ear and left for another game. "No fighting until I say." From a TOWNKILLER, no less. Kiss mine.
This event marked our Guild's first meeting with a member of another guild - the X-Lords. This opportunity to exchange greetings, extend hands in friendship and build a bridge of cooperation between our two noble organizations went something like this: Our Guild member entered the dungeon with a character hacked to possess 26 million hit points, and a like amount of mana. The Hunter, living up to his name, immediately tagged him with two elementals, which killed him deader than snot - even WITH his mana shield up. Now, the Lacticians Guild recognizes that this constitutes a violation of our policies (namely using a cheated character to harm another character), but there is an extenuating circumstance. Namely... it cracked us up. There are two lessons to be learned from this encounter. One: Never enter a dungeon containing a character who is at level friggin' 88! This follows the basic tenet that however much your character is boosted there's always someone who's done it better. Two: The level of indignation our Brother member felt sums up a common state of mind on the Battle.net, which is 'A cheating bastard is anyone who has cheated better than me'. In any event, we learned that the X-Lords are a guild who cheat REALLY WELL. So watch out for 'em, or, as our Guild member said upon meeting The Hunter, "Hi! I'm uuuurrrghhghgh.........."
Another story of a cheating pkiller displaying his true nature. After a series of unprovoked attacks on a Guild member while in a chat room, Mr. H. Christ finally proved irritating enough to enter a game with. You know the type. Lots of 'Your Mom Sucks (name any large cylindrical object)' type of insults. Clever, clever stuff. Once in the game the Guild member entered the dungeon, waiting on level one for our lord and saviour. Now here's the 'true nature' part - AS SOON AS he entered the dungeon he called 'Timeout'. Uh... 'timeout'? What is this, third grade flag football? To make it even sadder, Mr. H. Christ must have typed in this message BEFORE stepping into the dungeon so that he could call it out immediately upon entering. So this would seem to be a regular tactic, and some darn clever stra-get-y too! During the battle that ensued, the Guild member managed to get Jesus' hit points down. Down to, uh, MINUS 73. That'll teach him to fight Jesus so close to Easter, I guess. So what do we have here? Someone who cheats, but still feels the need to yell 'timeout' when starting a battle. And the REALLY irritating part? The little putz won the fight, offering to dupe our Guild brother's ear for whoever wanted it. Actually, we've seen our Brother member's ear, and should Mr. H Christ not be able to give those duped ears away he might consider putting a wick in them and selling them as candles.
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From ******@****.*** Mon Mar 31 12:18:27 1997
Alex Aaron (alex@checkmaster.com) wrote:
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: For the "Cheater Hall of Shame" check out:
: Lacticians Guild
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Sigh, another post-pubescent (at least we're getting SOME credit - he didn't call us PRE-pubescent) with way too much time and money to spend. (Boy, don't we wish!) I read your resume and you state you have spent some time in college. Maybe you should enroll in a remedial social studies course and learn what due process and libel mean. (Social studies? Wouldn't those be in a remedial LAW class? And what libel? Did we call anyone by their REAL NAME? These are game names, Ron. As for due process - since when in 'Diablo' has anyone been interested in that? Sheesh.)
If you are going to take the time to accuse someone of something, publish it for all the world to see, (It's on the net - I believe it's called the 'World Wide Web' for a reason) and then advertise it to all of USENET, (Uh, that's how you found out about it, Ron.) then get the details right. (All details are verified and witnessed by three Guild members or we don't print 'em. Ha! Smart guy.) Effectively, this site notes that 'Some Character With A Somewhat Intimidating Name' has done me some grave injustice. ('Grave injustice'? They cheated, we tell the stories, we laugh about it. We're not the ones taking this too seriously, Ron.) Did you ever hear about battle.net account numbers. (Gosh, we have!) Of course, those can be changed, too, but that is another issue. (Another issue because the fact they can be changed invalidates your 'make sure you identify the right person' argument - and you wouldn't want to do that, you're on a roll!)
Your site will only serve to inspire some self-serving vigilante to go out and get this desperado. (Yeah. Hey Ron - it's a game. They don't actually KILL anyone.) I see you do not care that some other like named player could get trampled in the process. (Hmm. You're right, that's never happened on b.net. before. WE'RE the cause! Oh, the humanity! Check out the 'Bounty Hunters' room sometime, Ron. It's all part of the game.)
You know, Alex, people who sneak about and bully a lower level player are an anathema. (One of our members has anathema, but a squirt from his inhaler normally clears it up.) But your site only makes the problem worse. (Nice to have an impact. Boy do we think you overestimate OUR influence!)
Be seeing you, (Not if we be seeing you first.)
Ron (LAST NAME WITHELD SO AS TO AVOID A LIBEL SUIT - WE
WOULDN'T WANT TO GET DRAGGED INTO SOCIAL STUDIES COURT!)
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