A story about friendship and revenge

[dst]

Almost 8 years after the story about friendship and betrayal (you can read about it here) I come to you with a story about friendship and revenge.
 
Yes, this is about the TW takeover. Probably most of you know that it was not a bug or an exploit that I used and probably some of you (ex necros - wow! how fun to say this :D - for sure) know how I was able to take it over.
 
Not to prolong the "mystery" : it was Ary who invited me in.
 
And now for some background: about 2 or 3 years ago I was casually playing MD when a team quest was announced. For some reason I ended up in the same team as Nimmy and a new guy called Ary Endleg (btw: it's the anagram for Legendary if you haven't discovered by now). I don't remember what happened to that quest but what I do remember is that one day my skype window popped and a guy called "Ary Endleg" added me. At first I was annoyed because I thought he was a noob :D. He asked me to guess who he was. I failed several times. He got bored and told me :D.
 
We began to chat and to plot things. Our mutual goal was to destroy TW/Necro/whatever resided in that land. And we set up a plan.
- Get NC citizenship
- Get in NC hidden forum
- Get in TW
- Wait for opportunity to take over TW
 
First 3 ones were pretty easy and went smooth. Last one was a female dog because the paranoid Necros didn't leave an open spot for the life of the Spaghetti Monster!
 
Yes ex-Necros! You were sooo paranoid...I had so much fun tormenting you! Remember few months ago when one of you exit the ally and I used an illusion to take on the badge? Sy got to freaked out that she used the tool to remove NC citizenship. Btw: that tool is bugged. None of you noticed that the uses didn't go down. Or...you didn't want to. I had to report it to Chew because you didn't care to. I got in that illusion several times along the years but you never seems to care or to remember. Your memory is short. Waaay too short. You should lose the hive thing :D. It damages you.
 
Back to the story. I started gaining enough loyalty to always be ahead on azull and have the number so in case of an opportunity to jump right in.
Meanwhile we were thinking of other options in order to get one of you out. Yes, believe it or not I cannot use illusions to take over allies. I can do other stuff but not this. And even after Chewett confirmed it you still didn't believe it. You couldn't believe that one of you was a mole. Believe it! He fooled you to the core!
 
The first real opportunity showed when peace announced she's leaving the game. But you were right there and replaced her with aeo. Oh well...we missed it. We moved on.
 
Days passed, both me and Ary and No one and the rest of what I like to call The Team went on with our lives and played MD and did other stuff. Disband one ally here, kill one player there, do a quest everywhere (this one's Nimmy :D), win some other quests and adventures, make players quit, business as usual.
 
Then one day (Friday evening or Saturday morning? - my mind is fuzzy cause I was incredibly tired that week-end) Ary told me that eara is leaving the ally and she'll be using "wookiee magic". That was our chance. But guess what? I slept from 6 PM until next day at 9 I believe. Poor Ary! He called, he yelled he probably pulled his hair that night. I think he cursed me more than any of you combined.
But we were lucky. Next day eara was out and the free spot was not filled in. So we acted. He invited me in, I got more loyalty than azull and then kicked ALL of ally members out.
 
Next step: send Mur the e-mail containing the log I pulled 4 years ago :D. That was a brilliant move (yes, I am VERY modest) I had so much adrenaline in me that I couldn't find that damn log (I must confess I am not a very tidy librarian :D). I passed Ary all the logs I had from that period and asked him to search for the piece cause I was unable to :D. He found it. I e-mail Mur and Chewett. I made the post on the forum.

And then the waiting game began.
 
And things happened. I haven't seen so many changes in such a short time since MD's old days. And they are not over. There are changes still to come.
 
And who is the one to thank for all this? Ary Endleg. He infiltrated you up to the highest level. He gained your trust. Yes, he did help you with stuff. Meanwhile he kept me updated with your moves :D. He's the best spy in all MD History!
 
                                                         He's the Legendary [spoiler]LIBERTY[/spoiler].

 

And now you know the reason for the takeover. REVENGE!

 

 

[DARK DEMON]

Liberty. Goddamn. You were the one who brought me up and made me stay in MD in my early days. I knew after you made and showed me 50 accounts... you couldn't suddenly quit MD after that. I knew you were way too addicted. All this time I wondered where you were, and I just got my answer now... I don't even know what to say. Shocked. 

 

You are indeed legendary. Wow.

Edited March 28, 2016 by DARK DEMON

[Nimrodel]

I got the info just yesterday :D Imagine my surprise and happiness. I was really mad at Ary for joining Necro in the start. But yesterday when I asked him about not being in the Nomads, he told me the entire story. :D 

[Muratus del Mur]

i must say i had no clue about this "alt" ... in a way i am very happy you CAN play alts in a safe way while not abusing alts. Not getting in a situation where alts need to be checked is not so easy when you get so "famous" :))) I am surprised

 

I wonder what kind of retaliation the ex necrovians will prepare for this, with so many enemies, you should prepare being the queen of the underworld one day ..willing or not :))

[Chewett]

One mainland dies, one rises (underground)?

[Muratus del Mur]

natural balance i would say. nc had(has) its purpose in this balance, and "the Dead" can't be without it...in fact its directly related to it in all ways, from how it appeared to how its accessed and how will be treated.

You can see this pattern in the east lands where two "lands" are required to balance a land without people (somehow). Dominion and tribunal are similar in a conceptual way to necrovion and the dead. But the new land will not be a full featured land ..same way domion will never be.

[Kyphis the Bard]

I actively track down and keep records of all the people I suspect of being alts. It's one of the things that keeps me around, because it amuses the hell out of me. But while I always figured Ary for a non-original account (just like myself) I never would have guessed just who they were.

Not once.

Bloody brilliant work good sir, I tip my hat to thee.

[dst]

Lib doesn't exist as account or at least is not accessible anymore. So in a way it was a fresh start. That's why it was pretty difficult to spot. Plus he's that good :D :D

[lightsage]

There were a few clues:

 

Forum mod

Personal pages (similar style)

Croatian flag

 

I've never seen him talk but looking back at his forum posts, the English certainly is a big improvement ;)

[Jubaris]

Kyphis, you knew he was an alt and you would never guess it was liberty?
Same question for dst.

He has a relatively rare Croatian flag. Even though people can use proxies, you don't dismiss that first clue. His gameplay and forum activities were relatively the same except he grew up and is more cold headed now.
He successfully cut out the "ya"s in his posts, that's a plus :D
Other than that, he tastes similar.

Worrisome that a lot of our rookies of the year are alts, tho? :P

99% of allies can be infiltrated with the amount of dedication Ary provided, as long as you are so and so smart.
Interesting that nobody tried that to Dst considering the amount of enemies she made lol.

Other than Ary's patience being impressive, it's also impressive that it took years for such a player to take down TWs, kudos to them.

So Ary, are you done or are we seeing more from you in MD? :)

Edit: didn't see lightys post, he summed it up

Edited March 30, 2016 by Jubaris

[dst]

Lib had a special way of talking/writing. Ary's is waaay different.

Also c'mon! The flag is not always a hint.

Besides, he told me who he was from the beginning (before me starting to get an interest in the "smart" noob and starting doing some checks).

[Aethon]

Worrisome that a lot of our rookies of the year are alts, tho? :P

 There's only one true rookie of the year. ;)

Edited March 31, 2016 by Aethon

[Mallos]

" make players quit"

Easily my favorite part of this post.

[Pipstickz]

An addendum; Lord Pip killed Necrovion before it was cool. That's all.

Edited May 2, 2018 by Pipstickz