Posted by Corrado on July 30, 1999 at 14:04:12:
In Reply to: I can think of two others that at least think she's full of shit. N/T posted by Corrado on July 30, 1999 at 13:42:18:
I'd do this in the game, but I don't much care to even play when Hilaene plays anymore because I can't get over her pompousness and Imperial-like attitude. The problem as I see it: You've got a cabal that is really about interpretation, or at least it used to be and should be. This cabal is full of people who have their own attitudes on all issues. Even Hilaene told me during the interview that she didn't expect the pack to blindly follow her, something that I think back on and get a good chuckle out of because if you cross her you suddenly find your dedication to the wildlands being questioned. Anyways, you've got this cabal that is supposed to a cabal of individuals who choose how to defend the wilds(do you look to find the defilers dead, or are you happy just getting them to loeave?)(Do you want to destroy the tower or do you just want them to leave nature alone?)(Do you like being allied with ragers or don't you?). There are so many issues to differ on, and sylvan members should be free to choose any path they desire so long as they protect nature. This isn't so under Hilaene, and in this way this thread really ties into the Serafim one above, saying how leaders have a set selection of answers and beliefs that they'll tolerate and anything else is wrong. I don't see sylvan like this, and I never have. This is all really started when I went to Dol Guldar to try and get a weapon(looking for Anduril but take angrist if it's Anduril's not in). I'd just died so I needed to get some stuff. Well, the grove gets raided by upwards of 5 Imperials and I'm the lone hero to face them all off. She tells me to come(still in request lag at this point) and when I stop meditating on the goodness of istari I do run towards the grove. Well, the bear is really pretty pathetic for an inner guardian and it dies before I can even get to Tar Valon. Hilaene calls me to the grove and bitches at me for not coming to defend. Now, I've played maybe 3 times when Hilaene was on(I don't usually enjoy playing into the wee hours of eastern standard time) but she sees fit to say I do it all the damn time. That I'm mystically on the other side of the damn world when the grove gets raided. Bullshit, I'm thinking to myself as a player. She tells me to say some bullshit like "I'm sorry Captain, I won't be a weak-willed fool anymore" so I can stay in the cabal. I do, like a fucking moron, I should've bent over and told her to kiss my ass, but I did it. Now, I've been the only really active sylvan hero for about month(Pikel and Mendeiron are there to help now) so I've been going up against 3 on 1, 4 on 1, sometimes 6 on 1 odds defending the damn grove and dying more times than not. Yet she sees fit to say I never come defend the grove. That's cool, let her think what she wants. Then she has the nuts to come onto the forum and say I don't have any friends after Kaerk quite obviously would've counted me as one of his. Now, normally I would've shrugged this off, but she did it anonymously and I as a person cannot tolerate childish taunts veiled under a name of "Someone" so I call her out on it. I don't post her IP for all to see, I don't do it to threaten the player, I do it to rip the damn mask off and display her for what she is...a child. Now it's blown all out of proportion, I hate playing one of my favorite chars to date, and all because we differ on what the cabal should be. That's cool, I'll roll up another damn char, powerrank back up to hero and pick up where I left off, in a different cabal as far away from her childishness as possible.