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Interlude: Stooges on the Forum - Continued
🕑 Added 2019-05-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
- Continuation of the Thread in Interlude: Stooges on the Forum
- -Harms, confirmed Beta-Account
So, guys, have you seen the newest Highlight-reel? And noticed someone looking so very familiar? For example, a female spellcaster, standing on a frozen rampart and throwing a friggin’ avalanche at her enemies? Next to a Giantblood that we have seen before?
I looked through a couple of older, official videos and she appears a couple of times, mostly magically kicking ass and taking names. Even in another player-thread in which the players complained about getting their asses kicked six ways to Sunday when they tried to “rescue” the Giantblood.
And now, imagine my surprise when I looked at the older videos and noticed that even in the first one, there was someone that looked remarkably like our dear Morgana. Unless Morgana in this thread is trolling once again, like she did in the other player-thread, planting some false information but I kind-of doubt it. So, for now, I will assume that Morgana who posts here, claiming that she is the one in the video, truly is who she claims to be.
Now, back to the older video in which I have noticed her. Remember highlight-reel one? The one after two weeks? In which a spellcaster, hidden in shadow, used some sort of mist-magic to murder a huge group of some sort of mob?
Looky, looky here:
Two pictures, one from the original highlight-reel, showing a figure in a dark cloak, her face hidden in shadow, as she sits on the ground and channels power into a magical formation, her eyes flashing with an evil glint and her lips curled up in a happy smile.
The other, a screen-capture from the videos in the thread, from the third person to die, the moment of his demise when, for just a short moment, the darkness recedes and he sees his killer. A petite figure with a dark cloak wrapped around her like a blanket, her eyes flashing with a dark light within them and the lips curled up in a happy smile.
You can’t see the face in either image, but the two images look so very, very similar that it is remarkable.
Or, look here:
Two more pictures, one from the newest highlight-reel, showing a figure in a dark cloak, lined with black feathers, standing on a rampart made from ice, creating a magical formation, consisting of three silvery-white symbols, one dark symbol and one pulsating red symbol, floating in front of her.
Again, the other image is taken from the first highlight-reel, now showing the dark figure and her magic. The formations looks so very similar, three runes are identical, just that two silver runes have been replaced with two dark runes.
Oh, and look here, there is more:
Again, two images next to each other, one from the second highlight-reel, the other from the current one. The image from the current one shows the black cloaked figure, standing with her arms spread and her eyes shining with silvery-white light.
The other image, from the second highlight-reel, shows a very similar figure, standing behind a Giantblood, her eyes shining with the same silvery-white light, while she uses some sort of magical formation to cast hail onto her enemies.
Looks rather interesting, don’t you think, guys? But, now for the real fun.
After the first highlight-reel, a certain, rather famous, someone claimed responsibility after people got their unmentionables in a twist over the slaughter in the video. Remember who that was? Titania of Craft of War-fame, one of the few, long-running female pro-gamers, posting some semi-cryptic stuff about a fairy fallen from the light, slightly changing an old songtext from a Hard Rock/Alternative Metal-Band to make her point.
So, Titania, a name taken from a fairy-queen, says that she is no longer using light, but that the darkness will sweep the land, making it rather obvious that she was the one in the video, at least that’s what everyone thinks.
And now, as you can see above, Morgana, a name going back to Morgan le Fay or Morgan the Fairy, a character with both good and rather evil legends associated to her, does something very similar. Using song-lyrics to make her point.
To conclude my line of argument: Morgana, who posted here, is the same person as Titania. So, I would say: You have been destroyed by a legend!
Cheers, Harms
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- -Gloinar - confirmed Beta account
Wait, so, the one who killed my party was Titania? And she managed to make us question ourselves by posting here, sowing doubt? Well played, Lady, well played. But we will get you…
But I’m still curious just what was used against the three of them. I don’t suppose a certain someone is willing to tell us, right?
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- -Heracles, Official Pantheon Moderator
Just because my name is Heracles does not mean I enjoy mucking stables, so I redirected a river and washed all the unrelated posts about whether the player Morgana is also known as Titania into a new thread. Please, keep on topic people. I left the posts that still relate to this topic, at least partially.
- -Ghostblade, confirmed Beta-Account
Ok, I completely don’t care who Morgana is, was or will be. But if that isn’t cheating, I don’t know what is.
splat.avi
The two we already know from the last video are next to the recording player, walking down some sort of dirt-road, frozen mud mixed with a little snow, ice and fresh mud. They talk about going out once again, to trap game when suddenly, the figure on the left just collapses, like a puppet with cut strings. The other two freeze for a second, before hurrying to the aid of their friend, only to find some blood seeping from his mouth, nose, eyes and ears. No other injuries are visible but he is quite obviously dead.
splat1stperson.avi
This time, the video is shown from the viewpoint of the dying player. The images are synced and it becomes obvious that the player is dead before he hit the ground. There was no indication, no nothing to show that he was under attack.
Ghostblade only felt a sharp pain for a split-second before he was booted from the game. I mean, what the hell? We asked around a bit and the group around Morgana left yesterday, apparently heading into the mountains. But the videos above explain why the Snowbold behind the hunter we talked to almost pissed himself when we asked about her, maybe she wiped out his people.
So, we wrote a bug-report, I mean, it can’t be that some murder-witch can simply kill people from miles away, right? Where is the balance in that?
- -Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account
Ok, ouch.
I watched the videos about her and unless there is something I’m missing, she is throwing three fundamentally different types of magic around as if it is nothing, even combining them with ease.
But no idea how to use magic without a line-of-sight or at least an excellent idea where to target your spells. I mean, I can let a fireball follow a ballistic track or move it around a corner to some degree but completely blind and, if you are right, from miles away? That’s some high-level stuff.
- -Vulcanar, Official Pantheon Development Team
Funny how that goes.
We got two reports about this incident, one reasonable, well argued and maybe a minute after the incident.
The other, maybe fifteen minutes later, riddled with errors and basically just a toddler, throwing a tantrum, calling the company, us devs, the game, the world a pile of garbage and the one who killed them a cheating -insert a long string of insults that I won’t repeat here-.
You might ask, what was funny about that? Well, the first report, the well-written one, was written by Morgana, explaining what she had done, how it was done and what her ideas were how to limit the impact of that ability without breaking the game, at least from her limited viewpoint.
Now, here is an official statement: What Morgana did was not a cheat or bug. It might be called an exploit, depending on your point of view but even that is stretching it. She used a mechanic mostly as it was intended, apparently not believing that we had left such an easy-to-exploit mechanic open. Given that she reported it herself, there obviously will be no measures taken directly against her, we will however, look into her suggestions to prevent what she did from being done again. Her arguments against leaving the mechanic in the current form were quite well reasoned.
For the insult-laden report, Ghostfire, the report-writer, will enjoy a one-week forums-ban.
Greetings, Vulcanar.
- -Morgana, confirmed Beta-account
Thanks, Vulcanar.
To the Ghost-noun squadron. I do not cheat. I test the game, as we beta-testers are supposed to do.
I admit, I used one of my class’ abilities, testing if it would work even after you respawned, not thinking that it would, mostly because it would almost be equivalent to perma-death. But it worked. So, I did what a good beta-tester does, reported it and let the devs sort things out.
Now, you’ve insulted me once too often. If I see you again, I will demonstrate you that I don’t need to cheat to utterly destroy you. Again. I don’t even need to sneak up on you while you sleep - but I might do so, just to demonstrate that turnabout is fair play.
And to Gloinar, No, I don't think I'll tell you, a Lady got to keep her secrets and all that.
