Review Submitted By: Kenon
Author Status: Player
Started on Duris: Land of BloodLust: 1996 or 1997
Submission Date: May 27, 2012
TMC Listing: Duris: Land of BloodLust
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Kenon]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
This is a warning to anyone who might consider playing Duris in its
current state, with certain immortals in charge of dealing with the
race wars and the players.
I am what you can consider an old elite player of Duris, been
playing it since 96 or 97 or so. Duris was once full pk/loot
and all about race wars and no matter what you were encouraged
to hunt and kill/loot the enemy race war side.
This has changed, the current imm staff have two members named
Venthix and Octavaz, whom are abusing their imm powers to stop
players they personally dislike from dominating in the actual game.
Basically Octavaz wanted to run a quest for goodies, and one for
evils. She then did the mistake of putting in her title that
there was a quest for both sides. My side did ours fair and square,
then wanted to go hunt the enemy (the way Duris is supposed to be
played mind you). Octavaz tried to influence us to leave the enemy
alone, I refused. We went and killed some evil that was trying to do
their quest (no mercy like it's supposed to be on Duris).
Octavaz then later summoned me, while I was in the middle of
leading a zone to feed my 3 artifacts, froze my char and started
harassing me sending me threatening tells that I shouldn't ruin her
quest. She basically interfered in the race wars, stopping a major
player on one side from feeding his artifacts, based upon her own
emotions about having her spoon feeding quest for the weakened enemy
side ruined (an attitude and will to race war that was once utterly
encouraged by Cython and other original Duris imms).
I then proceeded to post a factual explainatory post on the Duris
forums explaining how Octavaz had handled this situation and why she
was wrong. This other imm Venthix, whom has been waiting for an
excuse to stop me from dominating in the game, then terminates my
char using the false accusation of flaming Octavaz on forums as an
excuse (there was no flame in the forum post what so ever, only facts
and copy/pastes of what occurred in the situation in game).
Basically, I've spent a few months after the fresh player wipe
being a major player, spent many hours collecting cash and doing
zones to max my char in levels, epic skills, artifacts, equipment
and so on. Many hours spent dominating the enemy side and stopping
them from making progress and pretty much winning the race war the
way it's supposed to be played.
All this is terminated in one second by two imms that seems to have
forgotten or does not know what Duris is about. Duris the land of
bloodlust is not the game it is supposed to be if they handle things
this way, and I would not recommend it to anyone who like full
pk/loot. A great game in theory, but not worth your time and effort
based on the actions and attitudes of these two imms.
They will claim the reason was me trying to influence them code wise
which partly is true, I did tell them I would not show any mercy to
their precious evils as long as the evils had more powerful races
and group caps remained equal, but the only times I said these
things was when Octavaz herself sent me threatening tells when I was
about to go race war the questing evils, technically I did nothing
illegal according to the Duris spirit and way of the game, this is
all their wrong doing, and now I'll leave it at that.
- Kenon, former Duris player who won't come back unless a higher imm
handles this and makes these two admit their wrong handling of this
situation.
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Comment Submitted By: G
Author Status: Player
Started on Duris: Land of BloodLust: 1997
Submission Date: Jun 14, 2012
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[G] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Was told to avoid pkill of one specific group during a one-hour window and did it anyway
because he thought that he was too important to get into real trouble. Staff deleted his
character and he went on a ridiculous Facebook rant trying to get everyone to quit
and demand that the Staff member who did it step down. Neither happened and he's
back to playing Duris a week later.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/27595394634/
Go to the enormous Kevin Pederson thread and read his tantrum for yourself if you want.
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Comment Submitted By: Kenon
Author Status: Player
Started on Duris: Land of BloodLust: 1996 or 1997
Submission Date: Jun 16, 2012
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Kenon] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
I suggest 'G' above here read the guidelines for commenting before
he comments on a review:
'Please supply as much factual information as possible to support
the position of your comments, in response to the specified review.'
What you are doing here is straight up fabricating lies, as you
claim I am back playing Duris a week later, something I would
never be doing as long as these two people have any position
of power on the mud what so ever.
My so called rant on facebook is in the TorilMUD/DurisMUD page,
and thus it became a long thread based on the Toril
(Sojourn's non-pk/loot spinoff mind you) players trolling the
thread. All my posts there are simple factual explanations of
what went down on Duris (the once full pk/loot spinoff of Sojourn).
On a side note I don't know what the rules on this site are, but
you are linking to a facebook thread and attempting to conceal
your feeble attempt at exposing my real life name here by typoing
it, good job.
You argue that I was told to lay off the enemy, well I argue that
this should NEVER EVER happen on Duris as it's against all Duris
once stood for, and that Octavaz was wrong when she attempted to
do so and summoned/froze my char in middle of leading zones.
(Venthix then terminated my char based on false accusations
of flaming Octavaz, and as everyone knows: stating the truth
is not flaming and never was).
As a matter of fact, a little bird sent me this global message
from Octavaz herself recently as she ran the same quest again
(and no I am not playing nor have I attempted to log onto Duris
after I was sitebanned by these arrogant people who are incapable
of admitting they're wrong and apologizing for their wrong doings),
note how she is suddenly not attempting to deny anyone to raid the
enemy, go figure:
'Puzzle Quest has started! Find Gremlins, figure out the puzzle and win the PHAT BAG OF GOODIES -
Be advised so there is no confusion. There will be a quest for both goodies and evils. While
you can hunt the other side...you cannot do there section of the quest. You cannot even collect
nor keep their quest pieces. There will also be no drama from disgruntle player. Tho the quest
will be staged in a place that is consider safe for lower level players you do this quest at
your own risk!!! And when I say PHAT, I MEAN PHAT!!!'
And this was EXACTLY what I was doing, I never attempted to do
their quest, I simply hunted the enemy like you are supposed to
on Duris the Land of Bloodlust, and thus got harassed by these
two imms who come from Basternae 2 and think they know what Duris
is about.
The conclusion here is: I did nothing wrong, I was attacked and
harassed by Octavaz and then terminated by Venthix as I defended
myself exposing the truth about her wrong doings. Me going public
with it all is a direct result of these imms being incapable of
simply admitting they were wrong, and the higher imms being
incapable of defending what Duris stands for. Duris does not
deserve a player base as long as it handles situations like
this one this way and lets new imms harass and terminate old
players who mastered the game 10 years before they even logged
on it, end of story.
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