A state of war exist between The Roman Empire and Nordhaven. It started when a group of Roman’s invaded Nordhaven but when they found the place to be deserted they started burning down the immediate area instead (see Burning Down Nordhaven). This act angered the Nordhaven Chief and declared hostility against The Roman Empire. He then led a series of attacks or raids against their new enemy, The Roman Empire.

Killed While Rezzing

I wasn’t able to witness the earlier raids by Nordhaven but I was there during the last one. It wasn’t my best day that day because lag was terrible. It was so terrible that I couldn’t attached my weapons. This forced me to re-logged my account. When you login into Second Life, you’ll have to wait a while to let your attachments and surrounding to rez¹ and during this rezzing period I was attacked. I wasn’t able to defend myself because I was still rezzing. I did the only thing I can do at that moment and that was to run away. Well, running did me no good because the place hasn’t fully rezzed making me unable to see where I was running. I eventually got cornered and killed. If you look at the screenshot below none of my attachments rezzed and if I wasn’t wearing pants then I would be butt naked. LOL!

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RP

Getting killed early unabled me to participate in the battle. Why? Come on! You don’t get up and fight after being killed because you are already dead. I guess that’s just me. It’s an RP sim and it’s an RP battle. Getting up and fighting after you are killed will only make it hard to judge who won. Even if there are no moderators or arbiters, RP players should learn to moderate themselves and follow basic RP rules (if their are any). Luckily, The Roman Empire sim is not very strict on RP. So, you can be both yourself and your character at the same time which can be sometimes confusing because anyone can be rude to you and then give you the RP excuse. LOL!

New Weapon Rules

Both Nordhaven and The Roman Empire agreed to ban or disallow the use of DCS Enhanced Weapons during events like the WAR and Tournaments. These include weapons with impale scripts, fire scripts or any damage dealing scripts, throwing daggers and spears. To make the fights fair, only normal weapons can be used. Unfortunately, not everyone follows rules like I do. LOL! If I remembered correctly, I was impaled once. Who? I don’t know, I was busy running away! LOL!

This led me to ask some questions which kinda got a little too long which eventually irate someone. LOL! Oh well, I was just asking questions to further understand the what and why of things. I stopped talking after that because I’m afraid if I continue with my questions and expressing my observations that it would be perceived as complaining, which is not, and I might get banned from the place.

Tournament: The Roman Empire versus Nordhaven

After the raid, a tournament was held but I was lagging badly to compete and besides I wasn’t that good anyway. LOL!

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