Battling time for the #1 position

June 19th, 2008War Reports1 comment

It was Tuesday, June 17th 17:24 server time when KARMA POLICE (#27) was very comfortable in her no.1 position. With 10,000 acres more than the no.2 alliance Orkfias Twelve (#12), everyone in the alliance IRC channel was having genuine fun. It was then that Darkwing realized that both Jamzi and Vortex had reached the age of 99. This was a cause for both celebration and mourning, as reaching the age of 100 is a great achievement, but together their deaths would result in a loss of roughly 13,000 acres.

With no intention of parting the no.1 position KP had worked so hard for solutions were discussed. With Vortex’ immortal words “Declare war? When me and Jamzi are about to die? Sounds good!” everyone was alerted and the war preparations began. With no further assurances than educated guesses on acre loss due to death by ageing it was decided to declare war upon OT as soon as possible. The decided time was 03:55, and as most of the alliance is near or in the server time zone this was cause for some amusement. Jokes on inconvenient KTs were followed by grunts of goodbye as most KT members set multiple alarms and sought out their beds, anxious for the third war in the history of the alliance.

By Wednesday, June 18th 3:45 server time KT had come and slowly everyone showed their faces in the alliance IRC channel. Assisted by the necessary quantities of caffeine intel was gathered and calculations were made. Fear gripped hearts of many a KP member as Jamzis ruler had reached the age of 100 and her general had left. She could die any tick, and with that notion war was declared at 3:56 server time. In two hours time [OT] Boze buurman, [OT] Im Back and [OT] Masquerade fell to a combination of Arsons, Dragon Mages, Dragon Apprentices and Fireballs. However, at 6:00 karma came for Jamzis ruler, who died at an age of 100. Joy ensued, for all fears had been quelled: dying of age did not count as lost acres in war!

The war continued, and noticing war mode conversion on several of their tribes, it was decided to kill those we could. OT’s elder, Spiral Architect astounded all by being continuously on-line from the start of the war until the very end. It did not matter, however. At 8:02 server time [OT] BuggyMonkey and [OT]Revenge had fallen to the same deadly cocktail as their late alliance members and the war was won. Orkfias Twelve had been brought down enough to prevent us losing our no.1 ranking to them.

By now VorteX had reached the age of 100 and his general had left as well. With the prospect of a heritage for 2,000 acres the no.1 ranking had been secured. All hell broke loose though, when the dying ritual was investigated more closely. Apparently, when dying of age, one appears as having 400 acres before the heritage bonus kicks in. United Races (#15) held the no.2 ranking now, and this difference would make them first for a little while. Still unwilling to give up the no.1 spot it was decided that one of their tribes had to go. With Pez being large, but not very well defended a KT was set for 10:55 server time so everyone had time to recharge. Not everyone could be on-line then though, so in the hours leading to the KT several already opped.

The first attempt on Pez’ life failed due to his on-line activity, and time was limited because VorteX had calculated that he had until noon to live. The second attempt, however, was successful and exactly at the noon tick Pez’ karma was delivered.

The moral of this report is, of course: death comes swiftly and unannounced. As it turned out, VorteX didn’t die until 19:00 ST and time would have allowed a properly organized KT. Nevertheless, it was a successful, albeit long, long day.

~ By AtanAsfaloth of KP ~