I tried not being /anon for a while. I don't
really like being anon. Then I have to answer these questions:
Davian: "Where are you, hun?"
Sylverlokk: "So, what are you up to tonight?"
Davian: "Where are you now, hun?"
Gaellic: "What have you guys decided to kill tonight?"
Davian: "Are you coming? Or should I go to where you are?
And by the way - where are you?"
I mean - I don't mind answering. They are friends, you know. But if
they could tell what zone I'm in - they could decide before they asked me where
we were if they wanted to do what we were doing, and davian would know that yes,
I was in fact coming to where he was, and not standing around blasting myself in
the head in ordre to practice Evocation Specialization.
And not only that... but I'm level 32. Kind of an accomplishment - yay me
- so I like for that to show. And I'm an <Arbiter>. And the
people in the <Arbiters> won't know if I'm online if I am /anon when they
do a /who guild all. They'd have to add me to the Friends list... except
you're only allowed 20 friends. Not enough. "You are now
roleplaying!" "You are only allowed 20 friends in this
game!" I don't get it.
But if I am not anon, I get these questions:
LowLevel#1: "Can u SOW me plz"
LowLevel#2: "Can u bind me plz"
LowLevel#3: "Will you teleport me to OtherContinent? I will pay
you [enter single digit number here] plat!"
AnyLevel#1: "Will you teleport me? I just ... [enter sob story
here]."
One time, I was sitting at The Camp with davian, who was luring things for us to
kill. Some guy named Odle (not his name, but it started with an O and i
can't remember what it was) /t's me with: "Can u sow me plz"
I say: "Are you right in front of me?" He says, "I don't
think so." I say, "Well, it's pretty hard for me to give you SoW
if you are not within casting range." He says, "Where are
you?" I say, "I'm at The Camp." All of a sudden, I
see, in red letters: "I NEED THE LOC ON THE CAMP ASAP PLZ!!!1"
I
gave Odle the location, and tell him, "But it's quite a run to get here
from where you are." He says, "Oh. Forget it then."
Hey, look. SoW is cheap. I can hardly tell I've cast it,
mana-expenditure-wise. When asked, I cast it on people standing next to me
without even thinking twice. I won't, however, run my butt to wherever
someone else happens to be just because they want to run faster. I mean -
the guy could have Been To His Corpse in the time he talked to me. I don't
know what he was expecting. "Yes, Odle! I spend my time
in the game so I can come wherever you are and cast spells on you! My life
is for you!"
I have never refused to bind someone when I'm in town. I answer bind
shouts often. I'm in town, they're in town. It *absolutely sucks* to
be a class who can't bind themselves. So I do it. I even make sure
that I'm the leader of our group, so that when I teleport to Misty Thicket to
turn my party's loot into plat and bring it back to them, if someone needs to be
bound while I'm there, I can do it.
But the worst, the absolute worst, is teleport
requests. Basically, what people are saying is: "I don't want
to spend 30 minutes on a boat. So please, Rori, spend two bubbles of your
mana on me so my life can be more convenient." And then if I say no,
I feel bad, because I know the boat sucks. This one guy last night gave me
a sob story about how he had forgotten to get bound in Freeport, and didn't want
to spend 30 minutes on the boat. Could I please teleport him to the
Commons?
I think there is a saying about poor planning and emergencies, but I can't quite
remember what it is.
Anyway. He really laid it on... "Please help for a fellow druid"
etc and so on. So I told him to come out to where we were, and I would
teleport him. Davian moved away from me so he wouldn't get caught up in
the teleport. Except I guess he didn't move far enough away, because he
got teleported too. So... it was two bubbles to the commons, and two
bubbles back to butcherblock.
Once we got to butcherblock, I decided to gate to Kelethin (where I had bounded
myself at a Warm Vendor) to sell, while davian waited at the Lesser Faydark
entrance for me. So I gated. I heard a croak, and then I zoned in. I
was still bound at the entrance to Guk. I must have bound the vendor
instead of myself when I was in Kelethin last. So I teleported myself back
to butcherblock, and ran my butt to kelethin to sell, bind, and bank, then I
medded back up my bar of mana, and we went back up to our lives.
All in all, it was about 30 minutes out of our evening,
so this guy didn't have to spend 30 minutes on the boat.
I have gone /anon again. I don't mind teleporting people when I'm going
there, too. I'll even /shout where I'm going and then wait for people if
they /t me that they're coming. But teleporting someone when I'm doing
other things is just too much.
The thing that would save ALL of this would be a few new switches. They
should be:
/busy (would say, "I'm sorry, I am busy now" and not let the /tells go
through)
/unbusy
/unbusy friend
/unbusy guild
/unbusy PersonName
Rori Faiyr, E'Ci.
