And here is my expirience in all of this, i'm sure Darwoth will be happy "pleasing himself" to it
. Same rule as Cheena. Don't care? Bye.
The startI started playing this game a little over two months ago, charmed in to it by the voice of Gamerzakh. I have a long history playing all kind of different games, but you could call this one a first.
The first 2 or 3 weeks were not that great. I just ran around the safe zone of Jamestown leveling my skills. I leveled nearly all my skills with 5 bb because i didn't even have a clue you could raise biles. But my interest or addiction grew and i started looking for information. First from watching clips, then from reading often messy written topics and a poorly updated wiki. I leveled my biles a little and went to look for a place to live. I found the perfect location for a home, not counting those horrible hills though... But i'm not easily deterred and spent close to 3 days digging out a plateau with a wooden shovel in some really steep hills. After that i learned about iron shovels
I swore then never to dig again, boy was i wrong...
A home to liveFinally i had a home. It was nothing special, but it was mine. I started buiding walls, braziers, tools and other necessities. I realised by this point farms and purity are the key to succes and thus started working hard on that. Things were going smoothly as i wasn't met by any hostilities. I read the forums on a consistant basis, but decided to remain incognito. I learned a bit about The Tribe, The Candy gang and ofcourse Lord Vold.. i mean Darwoth. But i didn't knew the full story. Darwoth seemed like not such a bad guy, and with trashtalk coming from all directions, it was sometimes hard to spot truth from lie between the banter. I decided not to get involved, and did my thing. But all of that was about to change..
Entering the townIt was just another day. i was scrolling through the forums, looking to see if something interesting happened. I stumbled on a new topic, this one. I didn't really know much about Darwoths history at this point. Sure, he was a killer and basicly the king of Jamestown. But i didn't know about any backstabbing. I didn't really care enough about his backstory to research it back then. But the town was an opportunity. I had gotten the basics out of the way, and it was perhaps the moment to join a town. This was my chanche. I had another offer from someone whose identity i wont reveal, but this one was just to tempting. Now i won't denie, i was ofcourse doing this in the hope to get some power and glory in the long run myself. Why else do we play this game, right? So, i pmed hime, got a response, went over there, and got my claim.
Life in townI was one of the early birds in town and thus saw most people joining town. it was nice and fun to meet some really nice folks. Most of them very friendly. It was great, but things changed a bit. Suspicion and annoyance began to rise between some members. Some of wich caused by paranoid behavior, of wich i claim no innocence, but moslty by unreliable, leeching and lazy behavior. Still, this portrays a picture way more grim then reallity. It was still a great place. And i know of several people in town wich i could have given all my silver and snakeskulls to knowing i would get them back the next day. The positive was definitely much stronger then the negative. I would do it agin.
Darwoths behaviorAfter a week or two in town it was getting clear to me that Darwoth was not really there alot. He mostly just placed new plots and went AFK in a house in Jamestown. We had an occasional talk, but it never lasted really long. I noticed he likes to brag though, about little things. Bearkillings, Fast biling and such. It made me think/hope that maybe he was just looking for some love
But the itch was there. I noticed he just kept expanding the district, and the supposed number of applications he got, wich he posted on the forum, seemed much higher then what i could believe. I also explored the spot where the next district would be and saw that it had no preperations at all. The itch grew bigger. Then Darwoth came with an idea to "protect" us by building a makeshift fence around town. I told hime i feared it would scare of new and existing members. It was a poor excuse, and Darwoth must have felled i was on to hime at that point. He backed out of it, but i knew we had a problem. Why didn't i run? I thought about it, but really liked some people in town, they had grown on me. I tried giving signals of my suspissions by asking others about the fence and why i resisted, and i also joked about Darwoth going to kill us. i talked about soon making myself an army, "i just need a bit more time". Maybe some people got the message, i don't know. But nobody expressed his concern more private. Besides all that, Darwoth must have had a scents on me anyway, so i would have only died sooner if i ran. Doing more research on hime i read some of the stories on his site and learned of the type of traps he sets. I blatantly told hime about this, with a smile ofcourse, to see how he would respond. He didn't, oh that's bad... I figured i should just keep doing what i was doing, trying to please Darwoth and the town as much as i could. If i was a value to hime he might have given more time. I probably needed another full month to build my fort, build some new t3 fields some warriors. Then i would have been out of there, hoping to take some of the villagers with me on that day. But it never came to that.
TrolledA few days ago i logged on to see the gates were blocked. I was told a troll came by who tried and moslty failed to block the gates. No big deal. This Saturday i was going to work on the road, i ran towards it, but before i got there i met the troll. Right away i thought Darwoth. Why? It might be a coincidence, but the character looked the same as the one he used in his previous salem story, wich you can read on his site. I wasn't sure though and hesitated on what to do. He trolled around, we newbed around and discussed what to do. In the end we killed hime. I'm sure it will be a great chapter in his story.
The endWhat to say? Dead is dead. I log on and see i'm not there. I log on to the forums and see what has transpired. I wish i had seen it and atleast gotten a chanche to fight hime and let my character go out with some honour. I think i deserved that. But it wasn't to be.
Anyway, i regret nothing. It was a great month, and i had more fun then i probably would have ever had if i played alone. In the meanwhile some of us have gotten invitations from all kind of towns. I really appreciate them all, and all of them have appeal for one or more reasons. Darwoth, obviously i can't trust you anymore, but i don't dislike you for it. It's a permadeath game, and this is how things go. If you can't handle it, you shouldn't play it. I hope to meet you in game again someday, under my knife