Random stuffs

Collection of various anecdotes from over the years

You always remember your first unseen

You are done with the chant.

You clench your fists and yell 'tora tora tora'

You feel like your spell gained additional power.

The air is filled with pure energy and crackles with power.

Unseen BURSTS of magic are absorbed into the spell!

You crush Bregalad's mind with your psychic attack!

Marrow's Paingiver axe GLOWS chaotically!

Bregalad stops existing in this reality.

Bregalad is DEAD, R.I.P.

Spearhead [party]: heh

Choboeio [party]: wat

Huppu takes the notebook of Bregalad the black (closed).

Choboeio aborts the spell casting.

Huppu takes A silver necklace.

Huppu takes a scroll with some writing on.

Murdoch [party]: -# kops #-

Marrow (party): darna unseened it to dead

You go huh? looking like you didn't quite get it.

Happiness fills your mind as your soul sings.

Choboeio goes 'Heh'.

Spearhead goes 'MUAH'.

Your golden glow fades away.

Marrow (party): from 85% to dead

Searc (party): wasnt it supposed to run like hell

Murdoch [party]: -# lol #-

Huppu looks at scroll.

Marrow (party): it doesnt if you KEEL it

Choboeio [party]: lol

Your soul sighs as the song ends.

Marrow (report): Soul chorus DOWN!

Huppu begins to read a scroll with some writing on.

Murdoch raises his eyebrow and goes 'Nice.'.

Spearhead raises her eyebrow at you and goes 'Nice.'.

Huppu looks at notebook.

Huppu opens a Bregalad's notebook.

Huppu reads a Bregalad's notebook.

Darna [party]: umm...errr...go me! I guess?

You sizzle with magical energy.

Huppu turns a Bregalad's notebook to another page.

Marrow (party): yes you made our life easier

Huppu reads a Bregalad's notebook.

Choboeio [party]: snicker

21:29  220311: Bregalad the black twisted Valheru magician 

For once it wasn’t rigged

The Moment Has Arrived! The Big Jackpot Drawing For:

NASU's TASK POINT LOTTERY has been completed!!

And the Winner is: Darna!!!!!

Task Point lottery winner! You receive 264 task points.

Mulam [bat]: Rigged

Black Reaver incident

This happened circa 2020. Allegedly. If asked, I’ll deny involvement and in any case, all eyewitnesses perished with axe-related causes of death. However, hypothetically, it might have gone down like this:

 Once we had a party to defeat Black Reaver. IIRC it was led by Rischa. The way Black Reaver encounter works, there is a sword laying on the floor in a labyrinth, and once you pick it up, Black Reaver appears and starts killin’ ya. Alternatively, the sword can banish you. So we gathered the party, fought our way into the labyrinth, protted and buffed ourselves up. I memorized the room location (I was Psionicist at the time). Then the bravest soul picked up the sword…

And then nothing happened. Black Reaver bugged, and didn’t appear. It happens sometimes. We made a dimension door, and walked out, and disbanded the party.

But I was curious. I still had the room memorized, so I phaze shifted back in, and explored the labyrinth. And indeed, I met the Black Reaver. He was in the maze as he was supposed to be, just didn’t bother to teleport to the party for whatever reason. Guess he wasn’t feeling it.

So I decided then to pick up the sword myself, to see if I could do anything with it. After all, it was the famed Sword of Wonders. Maybe I could sell or sacrifice it. Dimension door was still up, so I used it to go to Arelium, and attempted to sell it in shops. No luck, it did not have a shop value. The sword started vibrating in my hands, and banished me to random outworld room, out to the wilderness. I took a rift to Esiris (I did not have navigator levels in that reinc). I appeared at the center square of Esiris, where bunch of people were idling, as usual. Then I stepped into Arelium portal, attempting to donate the sword to Damogran’s newbie warehouse. Again, didn’t work: the sword doesn’t really become Sword of Wonders until you complete the quest, before that it is just a quest item with no value.

Pondering my next move, suddenly echoed bunch of death shouts - by Black Reaver! I recognized the names Reaver triumphantly shouted out: they were very same people who I had just seen idling at Esiris. Previously the Reaver had not teleported at our party, but it had teleported out of the area, to where I just had been - Esiris central square.

I instantly realized three things:

1. Black Reaver was tracking me, and was probably seconds away

2. The sword had begun to vibrate again, meaning I would get banished again, even if the Reaver didn’t catch me

3. Hell was suddenly full of dead people who might want answers about who had released an extremely powerful and aggressive eq monster in their midst.

Immediately, I dropped the sword and walked away whistling innocently, knowing nothing of what had just transpired.

[21:59]:Kohothegreat {ghost}: black man is alive

[22:00]:Blax (ghost): accept

[22:00]:Rischa [ghost]: lol what

[22:00]:Blax (ghost): take if need rais

[22:00]:Ecky {ghost}: awww

[22:00]:Tikku (ghost): :D

[22:00]:Drizzin (ghost): :P

[22:00]:Toper (ghost): reaver goes rage mode

[22:00]:Rischa [ghost]: went through a dimdoor i guess :D

[22:01]:Kohothegreat {ghost}: just run him over

[22:01]:Ghost of Bartok (ghost): reinc

[22:01]:Ghost of Tuli [ghost]: was hunting darna?

[22:02]:Lozlo (ghost): accept what ya need

[22:02]:Darna [ghost]: well what kind of evil person would let Reaver get out of catacombs

[22:03]:Kohothegreat {ghost}: darna, borders are facism

Anyway, I'm imagining Esiris central square, a serene marketplace with people napping or checking out merchant carts. Then of all people, BLACK REAVER pops in, gleefully grips his terrifying axe, and starts making mincemeat out of everyone. It's absurdly hilarious scene, unless you were one of the people getting reaved, I suppose...oh well.

Addendum:

Apparently this was not the first instance when this had happened. I also witnessed something similar in 2025. I'm not clear on details, but there was a Two Towers party, and while fighting the Hydra (the final monster), at least one of the tanks had their Sword of Wonders somehow open a breach to reality, with end result being that the Hydra teleported itself to Arelium South Crossing.

Now, the South Crossing is obviously one of the most visited places in BatRealm, with lots of people using it as idling or shopping spot, or just walking through it (often as a part of travel macro command). End result was predictable:

[23:17]:Ghost of Tonto (ghost): who assmeister has brought hydra to sc

It took a good while from the party to kill the wayward Hydra, who had splendid time snacking on the passers-by meanwhile. Maybe that taught some people a lesson about messing with powerful artefacts they don't understand... But more likely it didn't.

Nomen ist omen

Cloud dragon shouts 'Deathwish died like a DOG!'

Ghost of Deathwish [ghost]: i told that dragon that he was great at juggling.... super Talon-ted

Ghost of Deathwish [ghost]: and he killed me

Shinarae <ghost>: you pissed off a dragon? do you want to die? is that some kind of...of...man, there should be a word for that

Cephei (ghost): accept rais/ress

[ghost]: Ghost of Deathwish eyes Shinarae suspiciously.

Rabo [ghost]: WISH GRANTED MOFO

The special reinc

So once upon a time I was this:

Level 91 Human with totals of 361.005M

Guilds and guild levels:

  Folklorist (25)     Bard (17)           Psionicist (35)

  Hardknox (5)        Magical (10)  

This was a special reinc developed by late, great Juggelo. I won it from an amethyst mining contest (!) in Porocon: actually me and Deepwood were co-winners. Deepwood found a bigger stone, but I found prettier one. Concept was that race and background were randomly selected, then a secondary background was chosen at random, from which you could also choose guilds. Later, Juggelo would sell or award these reincs to some people, they became to be known as 'bat soup reincs'.

At that time, multi-background reincs were very rare, so people were very curious about it. Nowadays, with tickets, they are of course common as dirt and no longer very special.

So my reinc came up as human/magical/civilized. Lot of people went "lol why did u pick human it sucks", but as noted, it was a random choice. (IIRC, Deepwood got merfolk/magical/evil relig - pretty awesome combo too). My previous reinc was psichann, and I wanted to remain Psi and gain councillor status. I figured Folklorist was nice complement for Psionicist - it offers good protting ability, secondary damage type (poison) and is not very exp- or level-intensive guild. Folk quests would increase my spmax. Finally,  I wanted some Bards. 

Another thing some people said "why didn't you make a channubard u dumbass". As some people remember, Channellers used to be a civilized BG guild, and combined great with bards. I did consider it, but at that time I was pretty fed up with Channellers, of their repetitive everyday life of draining rooms and maintaining energy aura. Also, I had never been a Bard before, had none of the quests or KBH's done obviously. It was not realistic for me to get a powerful, useful offensive Bard over a course of a single reinc. But going to level 17 required me to do just solo play and other easier quests, and would give me passable War Ensemble plus some other useful bard spells like Campfire Tune and Strength in Unity. My previous reinc was adequate blaster but could do little else, and I figured this would be lot more useful and utilitarian reinc in a party. And it was...eventually.

Completing the reinc was tons of work. I had been a Folk with my secondary character, but not with my main. Took a while to gain enough study marks to get the guild going. Completing necessary bard stuff was harder: learning essential songs known-by-heart, doing the quests...it took months. Once finished, it did not really match my expectations: with no Bardic Might and weak Dex, my Bard spells were horribly inefficient. Combined with Psi itself being an sp hog, in parties I ran out of spell points almost immediately. And humans don't have great sp regen.

Eventually, I learnt some upsides. Folklorist have Bookworm, which gave me better stats and Fast meta. I managed to construct bit better bard instruments to buff my stats. Human racial guild gives access to Ceremony. In parties I could borrow spells from Mages or Tarmalen to suit the occasion: Golden Arrow and party heal spells were my favourites, as Folklorists gave mastery skills which used them.

In exp parties, it worked pretty good. Humans have excellent exp rate, and Bookworm form does not reduce your exp rate. In eq parties, it wasn't that great, I didn't do that much damage as a blaster (my Int was around ~300ish usually), but overall passable. Even a bad Bard is better for a party than no bard. Down side of being able to do everything was that...I had to do everything. I could buff, heal, stun, prot and blast, even sing more EP in a pinch. So there was no idling for me and I was always out of sp.

The reinc had some weird stuff going on:

• I started at level 0, instead of 1. This gave me an effective free level

• I began to gain Mage essence from Folk and borrowed blasts, despite not being a Mage. In fact, I showed up as 0-level Mage and could talk in Mage channel:

Valkrist tells you '.--------------------------------------------------------------------.'

Valkrist tells you '| Online guild members                               | Lvl|| Tot|    |'

Valkrist tells you '+--------------------------------------------------------------------+'

Valkrist tells you '|*Pirutar Psionicist the Duck < TKT >                ( 10 )( 70 ) E  |'

Valkrist tells you '|*Shar Apollyon the Leech < Killing Art >            ( 10 )( 68 ) ER |'

Valkrist tells you '|*Drifter the transparent Shadow                     ( 10 )( 70 ) E  |'

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Valkrist tells you '| Beow Ulf the Thrikhren Eowulf and Rendel           (  6 )(  6 )    |'

Valkrist tells you '| Darna the Human (fake)                             (  0 )(  0 )    |'

Valkrist tells you ''--------------------------------------------------------------------''

I have seen this with other players' 'bat soup' reincs as well.

• I could not take Youth. This was deliberate from Juggelo's part, he didn't want people to stay in potentially overpowered reincs for ever. (Yes, I did try).

• When I finally reinced out (after reaching Ancient age), I tested if I could still join Bards...I could. Whoops. Very grumpy Juggelo re-reinced me into a 'proper' reinc, and that was the end of it.

Anniversary arena tournament

Caligula [bat]: Niele has been defeated. Darna is victorious!

[bat]: Darna marches through pyrotechnics and shouts 'Who's next!'

Riddle of Death

Ggr <wanted>: what .. is your favourite color?

Garas [wanted]: blue. no, it'