Guarding the Virtues? Not exactly....
 
 
This story takes place all over the gameworld, but the focus is on one event in Moonglow.
 
 
With the new patch out and the fame restriction on Chaos and Order guilds lifted, there has been a ferocious explosion in the number of Chaos and Order guilds. The thing they forgot was that if everyone highlights green or orange to them if they are virtue guards, then they are also green or orange, and fair game in town. So while most of the goofballs were townkilling everyone who happened to pick the wrong affiliation, I decided to exploit the system for my own ends.

I had my GM stand by our stone and wait for an ICQ from me telling him whether the main forces in a certain town were chaos or order. He then switched our affiliation from neutral to whatever I told him. Granted, there were some trigger happy punks who had to kill everything that moved, I was left unscratched for the most part.

Since no one saw me as orange, they pretty much paid me no mind. I think everyone sees where this is going now...

The funniest incident was at the Moonglow bank, when I liberated 3 different piles of regs (root, pearl, ginseng) from some "Admirable" schmuck. He ran in circles screaming "GUARDS!! GUARDS!!" and seemed quite perplexed when no guards came to his rescue. "WTF??" he cried, and I responded by stealing his bolts (or at least the largest pile).

Everyone got the "You notice Lenny Reeferstal...." message, and saw the Admirable idiot running like a chicken with his head cut off, and they too joined in the chorus of "GUARDS!! GUARDS!!" It was quite a sight: A player in full plate and wielding a Heavy Xbow running in fear/confusion as I (in my fire engine red clothes and wielding my trusty dagger) chased him while the crowd chanted "Guards! Guards!"

Anyhow, I passed the better part of the evening like that, stealing from unsuspecting and unprepared Virtue Guards and depositing my loot in the bank before proceeding on to the next town. The haul was pretty sweet, too. The pick of the lot was a durable Warhammer of Power, but there was plenty of regs and bolts to keep my PK in bliss for weeks.

Lenny Reeferstal