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ZOMG SuicideGrl started a thread! This one's a story, so read on if you wanna check out something that isn't an "OMG BOTTARRR" thread :)



So today my guildmate trickster, a 64+ pure str fire blader and lvl 4 trader who has been in BH longer than even I have, invites me on what we generally refer to as a suicide run from DW to HT w/ a full 5* ox. we call it such because the likelihood is great that we'll both die horrendously on the way, though in reality i think we have something like a 90% success rate on them.

So we're loading up and tedo, one of BH's officers and a 64+ pure int spear nuker, asks to come along. We leave DW from the south and proceed through the ravine and down past the Oasis, passing a few Uri campers and a few random grinders, and not a lot else. As we approach S. Tarim Ferry, a lone 70+ blader rides by on a horse. He reappears moments later on foot and garbed in thief, and immediately starts in on the ox. He tanks a volley of nukes from me and tedo, turns around long enough to bash tedo into the ground (sorry tedo), and...

**BAM** double thief spawn!! WORST timing ever. Well, i'm in hunter, so they immediately target me, and now the blader has focused his attention on me as well, so I phantom away just in time to see the ox fall behind me and see trickster's health drop to zero under a flurry of blade combos from the thief. I take a second to regroup, kill the remaining NPC thieves, and phantom back in, zerk, and 2-shot him. Score one for the good guys!

Meanwhile, tedo has come back in thief and is quickly gathering up the trade goods into a fresh ox. I stand there while the rest of my zerk burns off and see the thief reappear. I can attack him as soon as he appears, but he has to wait 5 secs before he can even move, and he's not buffed at all, so i'm dealing him some serious damage. He phantoms away and crosses the ferry while i beat back a spawn from tedo's ox, checking the map to see how long it'll be before trickster gets back on horseback. As we head toward the river with the ferry in sight, the "thief" charges back in , zerks, and starts in on me. I'm not a lightweight, I have over 11k HP as a hybrid, but he crit me for 14k w/ a knockdown, which was my first clue that this guy was probably several lvls above me (I'm 73 at the moment). I respawn before he can take out my wolf and wait a second for his zerk to burn off before reverse returning to the spot.

At this point, tedo is frantically potting his ox as a full gang of spawns are on him, but he has eluded the would-be thief for the time being. I catch up with him and get the spawns off him in time to see the trickster ride up and summon an ox. Out of nowhere, the "thief" is back, and he's in hunter this time. Quickly, tedo drops the goods, trickster picks them up, and we're back on target, but a few crits in a row from his blade sends me back to Hotan by the short route :( I reverse return back and buff up. Just before we finally cross the ferry, he's back in thief again!! We rush for the ferry and trickster crosses over while tedo and I keep him busy. tedo zerks but lags out after only one nuke; the thief realizes that i can tank his dmg pretty easily and decides to go for the spite kill and attacks my wolf!! Jerk. Luckily I have lots of "puppy pots", so we're both able to survive long enough for trickster to get away (but not before he performed a coup de grace on the zerked, lagged-out tedo :P).

This guy was persistent. He wouldn't give it up. He'd take out the ox, tedo would throw on thief and pick it up while i kept him from summoning a transport, he'd leave and come back as hunter to take out tedo, who would then drop the load so trickster could get it, which caused him to leave and come back in thief, rinse, repeat. At one point I just started running around and letting him chase me, thinking that he'd get bored and go away while allowing my guys to sneak through unharmed. Bad timing, though, because trickster took that moment to DC and loose a whole double spawn on the lower-lvl tedo, who dropped like a rock. We regrouped and kept this routine up all the way to Hotan south gate, where he came back one last time as trickster made a mad dash for the safe zone. He was chewing up the ox pretty bad, so I decided to try to ice him, hoping it'd slow him down. It worked! He froze solid, and trickster gained the safe zone. I phantomed in, called off my wolf (which he DID manage to kill once, grrrr), and we celebrated by talking loudly about how he had been outsmarted :)

Good times, everyone. Props go out to northstar from NoGuild for the good time :)

Just think.. You could have iced him in the first place...

AND furthermore he had to ignore PMs from me in the meanwhile, which can be tough. GJ

I have fun thieving all the time.
Especially since few people are needed to kill me

<3 bladers.

that made my day

Hehe, nice story. I miss those group moments from sro. Appreciate the time you took to type that.
Hope you continue to have fun!
@lynxz: Did you have to quote the whole thing?
>_>

fixed :)

lol nice

Hehehe our suicide runs are a bit different. These are our rules.

Everyone sets up a wager to be paid to the winner. Then everyone puts on trader and summons a lvl 20 camel. Without loading any goods we leave Donwang east gate headed to the wast ferry via the homeland road. Staying on the road at all times. Cross the east ferry and at the intersection take a left. Next intersection left as well. Staying on the road at all times. Over the second bridge from the north in jangan and in the west gate. First one to jangan alive with their original camel intact gets the pot. Transport pills are optional but usually pointless.

The first time we did this we had only 1 survivor. I actually had a thief 30 lvls higher than me at the time ride along side just to pop me. He didn't even try to attack. And his reaction when there were no goods. Priceless. I laughed so hard from the ground there. The second time there were no thieves out at all so it was one long boring camel rally race. And this last time everyone died and we ended up hunting for a few hours.

aww that must have been fun..

good job

one thing tha t you must have while thieving

summon scroll

very nice story i enjoy reading em a lot. now im going for job:

=D

nice

that sounds fun. me and my guild which is main 20-30 are planning on doing some convoy style trading soon i'll have to get them to try that empty camel thing cuz that was hilarious.

lmao gota love not giving up

i made one of my good ign friends by not giving up and same the other way around haha kept reversing in the end i just used mercs on him and kept a few of the scrols on me while i take off with his loot

sad thing is in job i pwned him loads then after in cape he pwned me loads haha

BAH!!! MERCS!!! i totally forgot that i had **3** sets of them in my storage!! gfg, SG. bah i'm a bonehead.

Jobbing has been fun lately. Lots of people hardcore grinding to hi 80 means open roads. I've escorted several guild/union members on everything from 3-5*s over the past week. It helps that I'm 77 . Even so I know who I can and can't take in general by the names and who I see grinding out with me.

Its never a sure thing but it can be fun.

ps want to have a good laugh at hunters? (note you need to be a guild master). Get a decent thief load, get on your ox and summon mercs. Let the hunters come. Enjoy the show as your mercs and npc theives tear them up.

haha i only take them on serious thif raids or union runs hehe

Jobbing really is fun. I was thieving with a few from my guild last night and while i didnt do much but run around it was fun to do something beside grinding. Go SG my hero hybrid

Hmm

Kit and I trade multi all the time. Then she disappear

Sometimes Sedene help me to a 5* ox.

Always seemed start out me / sedene... but eventually Fly come save us

=)

Rarely got robbed but... we were capped back then too.

A great story Suicide Girl.

It's nice to see a good and original story once in a while.

I ran into Rosalyn_Lau :\

Level 80 botter vs level 72 nuker = bye bye

o wow i havnt seen suicidegrl in a loong time lol. good to see you again, i like your posts

finally a good story

Hehe, nice story....and the good guys won!

I jobbed a bit last night...first time in a long long time. Here's my story, short and sweet:

1* trade run escort for 3x-4x unis from dw to hotan - npc thief killing (unjobbed)
player thief harrasses the two other hunters in convoy
suited up as hunter
we all 3 ended up dead.
player thief didn't even try to rob the convoy, just some 70+ out to goof off.

great story. I love it!

Nice stuff props out for that thief btw who kept coming alone (if i understood the story right ) most of the times thief come in bunches also great fun when you have zerk and enjoy the light nukes

lol nice story. did you find out what lvl that guy was?

AGAIN AGAIN!

aww, wish im a high lvl doing a multistar trade.

anyway, my trade story: (not nearly as exciting)
i was lvl25 doing 1 star from DW to JG, i got past the west ferry and then 2 high lvl thieves came (using 8th degree weapon) and popped me. so i was dead and my horse was dead. then all of sudden one of them said my goods sucks and they're not worth the return scroll they use... so i was like: wtf? are my goods not leet enough for u? anyway, he ressed me and they left me standing there speechless (with trade goods still on the ground).

the end: i summoned my spare transport and made it safely to JG

so how much did you spend on this whole madness?