Info Regarding The Sacking Of Holm

[Grabthar 185]

The Guidelines for

The Sacking Of Holm

Step 1- 4pm PST – All “citizens” meet at location ( coordinates to be given privately ) Make sure to leave ALL valuables at home. Bring no weapons/armor/goodies with you so as an accident doesn't cause you to lose your inventory. We don't want a stray cannonball hitting you and you raging that you had a stack of diamonds and want it back. Citizens will then be taken to Holm, either by boat or teleport. Once in Holm begin going about your business as if it were a normal day; browsing at shops, drinking at the tavern, talking to others, RP it and make it good. Since cameras will be rolling.

Step 2- Between 4:15pm & 4:30 pm PST – The pirate ship Obsidian Flame will be pasted just outside of Holm's Harbor. A server Broadcast can be announced that black sails are spotted at the same time that we release our first volley of cannon fire. Cannon fire must be RP'd as a gunner clearing the previous shot, packing the tube, and loading one snowball from the chest into the dispenser, then /shouting FIRE! As he pulls the lever. This will reduce spamming of cannonballs. A GM will need to be above our ship shooting fireballs at locations in Holm's docks, market, and housing area. Hiebe will have specific locations that are okay to attack listed at the time of the siege. Pure cannon fire destruction will last around 5-10 minutes depending on how much damage we can do. Citizens should RP running for their lives, helping the injured, putting out fires, that kind of thing. Guards should focus on getting people to safety and putting out fires through this part of the event. Pirates will stay aboard the ship and RP as having a great time, prepping the longboats and helping man the cannons.

Step 3- The harbor will be filled with yells and shouts of Pirates as we board the longboats and come ashore. 3 Pirates will stay aboard the ship along with 3 NPCs to continue the cannon fire, so we still need a GM to man that spot. The rest of the crew will go ashore by boat and begin the raid. Loot chests will already be in place and pirates have access to taking from them. ALL ACTIONS MUST BE EMOTED. This includes taking from chests, kicking in doors, breaking windows, scaring citizens, setting additional fires, and all general piracy. No attacking of any kind as of yet. Not PvP or RP until step 4. Citizens will be in full chaos by now and running in every direction. Guards will have their hands full with massive fires blazing and helping get injured out of the way. This would be the point that couriers could be sent to neighboring nations for help. I'm sure Hiebe, as king, has a royal notary that could find his way to a helpful nearby nation as swift as possible. I prefer someone Rping as a messenger instead of birds as I personally feel that bird use on the server makes no sense until owlery's or bird posts are implemented. I also hope that any neighboring friends of Holm aren't sitting on their docks in armor when the messenger arrives, since that might be deemed as meta ;P. The looting will go on for a good amount of time even after combat begins. Once the majority of citizens are safely inside buildings the fighting begins.

Step 4- Should any pirate be confronted by a guard, combat will then be initiated for that group. We hope to have several different sets of combat happening scattered around the island. Remember, this will not be a “Stop or Die” followed by spamming of the left mouse button. Everything must be emoted. Every swing. Every arrow fired. Every use of your environment to your advantage. Try to be creative. Think about movie fights, use tables, chairs, buildings. Find ways on roofs, even jump through windows to escape. Even the good guys usually get hurt somehow, so dodging every attack and killing the other guy fast is totally not likely. Give the other person time to respond to your emote as well. We want these to be individual, almost choreographed fight scenes created on the fly. Don't forget, there could be someone video taping your fight at any moment. Wouldn't it be awesome if YOUR RP fight went up on the forums as how everyone should do it. The ultimate goal of everyone shouldn't be to kill the other person. For pirates, the goal is to get away, but make it an amazing escape. For guards, you are trying to protect the towns folk while capturing the pirate and getting the loot back. For citizens, you are trying to not get killed and survive the chaos.

Step 5- At some point the battle will end. When that point comes a broadcast will announce it. Be it that the guards have fallen and the pirates happily take everything they can carry and make for the ship, or that the pirates has been driven back, drop what they carry, and flee to the safety of their own vessel. All of my crew live by the code of “Run away today and live to steal another day.” So they will do everything they can to not be caught. We would rather drop what we have and run, than risk getting killed lol.

Step 6- The retreat. Should the pirates win the day, looting would continue until there was nothing to take. We may take prisoners, valuables, we may even threaten citizens for minas. Be ready :). Should the guards win and we retreat to our ship, we would be literally running for our lives. Remember that fighting while swimming is near impossible, so swinging your sword while chasing us won't be realistic. Firing arrows on the other hand, is totally okay. Remember though, we are still firing our cannons at you. So if you feel like standing in the open and pelting us with arrows, you may take a cannonball to the face. Once every pirate alive and not captured makes it back aboard the ship we will depart. A broadcast will state that the ship vanishes over the horizon, or something like that.

Step 7- At this point the event would be over. Our ship could be erased from their harbor and we could retreat back to our cove to revel in the booty, or wallow in self pity, which ever is the case. The citizens of Holm can either help piece the town back together, or return to their previous unrelated characters. Actual residents of Holm can RP how they would react to such an attack. Rebuilding, clearing, burying the dead. Your call.

Throughout this Raid, the pirates will be only wearing leather or chain armor which is a main reason for RP fighting. Heavier armors sink in the water and make swimming and sailing unrealistic. Iron wearers will be more protected on land and therefore have an advantage in fights, but leather wearers will be a tad bit quicker on their feet. Remember this during your combat.

RULES OF THIS EVENT:

Citizens have no armor/weapons.

Pirates wear only leather/chain.

No PvP fights. Emote every action.

No eating of ANY foods during event. Make sure you are full health bar at the start and RP that you get hurt or tired as it goes down. In real life people don't heal that fast.

RP everything. ((brackets)) are FORBIDDEN during the event.

STAY IN CHARACTER. Pirates/Guards/Citizens... everyone!

No use of birds. ALL /tells are OOC for this event.

Be realistic. No superhero stuff. No Power Gaming.

Roll ONLY for absolute chance circumstances.

Film Crew:

I would ask ANYONE that can run a video recording program without upsetting game play to do so. I would also like the GM who is acting as the cannon to record, as well as any other GM's flying over head. Try to get amazing shots from wherever you are. Even citizens that can't record, F1 to lose the tool bar and Screen Shot often. I really want to get all aspects of the battle for a video I hope to make of it.

I should have the Pirate Texture Pack available later tonight, and will get a link for everyone that wants to use it, recorders and anyone else alike.

Let's make this the most amazing event ANY server has ever seen.

[Alan 1815]

I really like the amount of thought you put into this, Grabthar, this is awesome. I also am quite pleased that you were smart enough to put precise rules and guidelines to follow, as it would definitely help a lot with the roleplaying capablities. ^_^

[Aelu / Rel (Combustionary) 1540]

There will be three guards online at best, Hiebe, Nurrak, and Hannibal (I wont be online most likely, I have no interest in taking part in these things until i've actually built holm up a bit). So, I doubt holm will be able to fight them off, so, well, meh.

[mylimo7 409]

I love how you planned all of this, I hope to be a citizen or something. I am guessing you got cannons from Alras?

[Pudclud 32]

Aye, this sounds like a mighty fine event!

[Grabthar 185]

I love how you planned all of this, I hope to be a citizen or something. I am guessing you got cannons from Alras?

Not quite... We saw them for the first time on the Alras ship. Our port was built before the server went live and GM's built a previously vacant pirate harbor. It contained cannons and details on using explosives. I will be releasing Lore on this soon :)

[Cappy 1599]

Looking forward very muchly!

[FORƎST 1312]

Got there a bit late but still had a lot of fun running around in circles n' stuff. Great event. Hopefully you'll be planning a few more in the future?

[steelersfan1221 300]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.