Having nearly 200 players on my ICQ list from the GL shard, I sent the following message:
I'm sick of this. Join me...
Log onto Lake Superior for a new character.
Make her Female,
Give her a ponytail,
Brown Hair
50 tactics and 50 Archery, maces, swords etc....
Name her "Dublin" and meet at Britain's North Side Inn.
Within 20 minutes the Northside Inn was spawning a "Dublin" recruit at a rate of 3 per minute. Ten minutes later the entire army filed out of Britain roughly without any due notice. (gee how does that grab you.. a whole town not noticing 45 people named "Dublin" wandering out of town single file?) Anyway once out of town, a dye tub later with a lot of pent up GL players roaming around without a care in the world on another shard.. we spot out first target. A llama.
Someone named Dublin yells out, "We will kill all men"
Someone else named Dublin yells, "It's a male llama, let's kill it!"
Well, as uneventful as that may first had seemed... we made short work of the llama. Surprised myself.. the nine Dublin's melee-ing and several more Dublins with bows made very short work of the llama. We were very satisfied with the result of this makeshift army. It was then when a mage (male) running back toward Britain at fell speed smacked right into the middle of our army.
Now the workings behind the game does not have this documented. But when one mage sees an army of newbie melee fighters and blurts out "WTF?!" shortly followed by 20-30 "Dublin is attacking you!" messages, the lag will undoubtedly mess up your escape. This got the ball into motion as people could not resist the news of a brawl right outside of town. I'm guessing that no one quite explained that every troublemaker look exactly alike and was named the same name. Dublins were everywhere and the mayhem had me gasping for air in laughter. Murder counts started to rise as innocent newbie Dublins dyed for their attackers had no idea which Dublin started the fighting.
As the army fanned out a bit, you could see Dublins finishing off a mage or fighter as another squadron of Dublins ran across the screen after another player. And certainly did we see numerous deaths of our own people. But because every Dublin was a newbie, we insta-ressed with our newbie sword or mace and dyed robe as we blended right in with the Dublins that were in prefect health.
After a good hour later Dublin corpses were littered everywhere. The mayhem that we caused eased the tension of a good amount of GL players, shook up a number of LS players and gave them something to definitely remember. Although we had a lot more runs repeating this on other shards, that first time out would never be matched.
Dublin