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Something Awesome Happened in Cyrodiil
Exalted_Goose
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"Firstly, this one would like you to excuse him if his build looks a little silly. J'Fazirr-Dar is still growing in strength, and he finds himself using un-morphed abilities and having misplaced Ultimates on his Bow bar, (yes, I was running Incapacitating Strike on my Primary and Secondary Bars, and that has since been rectified)...". 
Right, with that out of the way, I'm going to get right into this. All of this happened a few days ago, and I was deciding whether or not to create a forum post about it, but then decided to anyway - a little comedic positivity is generally a good thing. PvP itself, on the good ol'Blackwater Blade campaign, was being fairly uneventful - there was low population, especially on the AD side, and not an awful lot was happening, (essentially, the EP kept plinking away at Sejanus Outpost while we Aldmeri bumblers were trying - and failing - to recapture Nikel after an embarrassing defeat at the hands of some really good players). As a Nightblade, and someone who enjoys scouting anyway, (and who seems to be better at getting out of trouble than actually succeeding while in trouble), I decided to do some lurking around Nikel, and perhaps take some pot-shots at lonely Covenant soldiers standing on the walls; sure enough, there were DC players stationed there, though what was odd was that there was one AD character having what appeared to be a duel with a DC one.
Curious to investigate, I readied my bow and took a shot at someone who, I imagined, was spectating on a rock, and yet he didn't retaliate. I approached, remaining cautious, and the duelling DC character turned around and tried to attack me. I spammed my abilities like a nervous wreck and was able to evade him, and I hastily concluded that there was still hostility here, so I re-approached, drew an arrow, and fired again - this time at the duelling DC fellow. Unfortunately for me, I made a complete pig's ear of my escape and got evaporated, but ever-inquisitive, my useless Khajiit mounted his horse and once again travelled to Nikel Outpost. The duel had moved, this time, to the Main Gate, and there was now another player involved, (a Mag Sorc, if I recall correctly, at which class my bow loves to pelt). I assist my fellow Dominion warrior - a player who, evidently, was a self-sustaining gank-slaughter-monster - and we were able to best him, but, given that there were only two of us and no siege weapons were up, the DC mage respawned instantly, and the fight resumed. Initially, I thought that this would be some kind of AP farm, but upon forcing the DC mage into the walls of the outpost, my comrade set up a Battering Ram, and began pounding at the gate. It was at this moment that things began to look a little unpleasant...
A few DC soldiers appeared from the gates, then more, and then more - much to my dismay, I recognised these players immediately as being the banes of the AD/EP on this server, (renowned, notorious and feared greatly in the /zone chats of the Dominion). I initiated coward mode immediately, but saw that none of them were attacking, save for the person who destroyed the Battering Ram, (who then sheathed his weapon after it had burned to merely a pile of blackened cinders). I thought to myself, "No... ...could it be? An opportunity to friendly in PvP?", and I approached, sheathing my bow and coming out of stealth. I received a few light attacks as warning shots, though I was not discouraged, and I dropped a tactical /wave emote to show my friendly intentions. After some cross-alliance communication via the forms of /dance and /congrats, the DC too sheathed their weapons, and in response, I dropped to my knees and began to worship them for their awesomeness...
So, yeah, essentially, this is how my first ever friendly session initiated by enemy players who had no form of written/verbal communication with me began in Cyrodiil. "This one took the liberty of collecting some screenshots, but you must know that J'Fazirr-Dar, despite his handsomeness, is not as skilled with a camera as he is a bow or blade. Please forgive this one's lack of artistic angles and creative flair with his images...", (and that I'm always in sneak, for some reason...
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This lasted for around half an hour, before I decided that I'd played enough ESO for the day, and subsequently logged off. However, despite this meeting's seemingly trivial nature, this actually made my evening, and I found it so heartwarming that a group of very skilled players were willing to friendly with me and another AD player instead of eviscerate us, and remind me why their names are on my, "Toggle Recap", window so often. While rare and often silly, I find that social gatherings like this - especially between enemies who should really be trying to best each-other on the virtual battlefields of Cyrodiil - are really what make ESO for me, and engaging with pleasantries with other players makes me feel really rather good. I sent a few /whispers to those players who had names without wacky characters that aren't on my keyboard, and each of the Covenant players who I spoke to seemed like genuine, lovely individuals, who were thoroughly amiable and wonderfully kind in our albeit brief verbal encounter.
So, this was, pretty much, what happened in Cyrodiil, and man - it felt good! Meeting with the enemy - might I add, skilled enemies, feared by my comrades, who could have deleted certainly me within an instant, (and eventually, my AD friend as well) - face-to-face, and them then allowing me and a fellow AD player to mess around with them, for me, was fantastically good fun, and a great way of subverting a little frustration that had arisen due to a very uneventful evening of PvP! What about you folks - do you have any memories of similar instances in Cyrodiil that you'd like to share?
Thanks for taking the time to read all of this, or at least skim over it - I'm aware that this post is boderline pointlessly long. All the same, thank you for visiting this thread, and have a great weekend everyone!
Edited by Exalted_Goose on April 8, 2017 10:02AM Right, with that out of the way, I'm going to get right into this. All of this happened a few days ago, and I was deciding whether or not to create a forum post about it, but then decided to anyway - a little comedic positivity is generally a good thing. PvP itself, on the good ol'Blackwater Blade campaign, was being fairly uneventful - there was low population, especially on the AD side, and not an awful lot was happening, (essentially, the EP kept plinking away at Sejanus Outpost while we Aldmeri bumblers were trying - and failing - to recapture Nikel after an embarrassing defeat at the hands of some really good players). As a Nightblade, and someone who enjoys scouting anyway, (and who seems to be better at getting out of trouble than actually succeeding while in trouble), I decided to do some lurking around Nikel, and perhaps take some pot-shots at lonely Covenant soldiers standing on the walls; sure enough, there were DC players stationed there, though what was odd was that there was one AD character having what appeared to be a duel with a DC one.
Curious to investigate, I readied my bow and took a shot at someone who, I imagined, was spectating on a rock, and yet he didn't retaliate. I approached, remaining cautious, and the duelling DC character turned around and tried to attack me. I spammed my abilities like a nervous wreck and was able to evade him, and I hastily concluded that there was still hostility here, so I re-approached, drew an arrow, and fired again - this time at the duelling DC fellow. Unfortunately for me, I made a complete pig's ear of my escape and got evaporated, but ever-inquisitive, my useless Khajiit mounted his horse and once again travelled to Nikel Outpost. The duel had moved, this time, to the Main Gate, and there was now another player involved, (a Mag Sorc, if I recall correctly, at which class my bow loves to pelt). I assist my fellow Dominion warrior - a player who, evidently, was a self-sustaining gank-slaughter-monster - and we were able to best him, but, given that there were only two of us and no siege weapons were up, the DC mage respawned instantly, and the fight resumed. Initially, I thought that this would be some kind of AP farm, but upon forcing the DC mage into the walls of the outpost, my comrade set up a Battering Ram, and began pounding at the gate. It was at this moment that things began to look a little unpleasant...
A few DC soldiers appeared from the gates, then more, and then more - much to my dismay, I recognised these players immediately as being the banes of the AD/EP on this server, (renowned, notorious and feared greatly in the /zone chats of the Dominion). I initiated coward mode immediately, but saw that none of them were attacking, save for the person who destroyed the Battering Ram, (who then sheathed his weapon after it had burned to merely a pile of blackened cinders). I thought to myself, "No... ...could it be? An opportunity to friendly in PvP?", and I approached, sheathing my bow and coming out of stealth. I received a few light attacks as warning shots, though I was not discouraged, and I dropped a tactical /wave emote to show my friendly intentions. After some cross-alliance communication via the forms of /dance and /congrats, the DC too sheathed their weapons, and in response, I dropped to my knees and began to worship them for their awesomeness...
So, yeah, essentially, this is how my first ever friendly session initiated by enemy players who had no form of written/verbal communication with me began in Cyrodiil. "This one took the liberty of collecting some screenshots, but you must know that J'Fazirr-Dar, despite his handsomeness, is not as skilled with a camera as he is a bow or blade. Please forgive this one's lack of artistic angles and creative flair with his images...", (and that I'm always in sneak, for some reason...
)...This lasted for around half an hour, before I decided that I'd played enough ESO for the day, and subsequently logged off. However, despite this meeting's seemingly trivial nature, this actually made my evening, and I found it so heartwarming that a group of very skilled players were willing to friendly with me and another AD player instead of eviscerate us, and remind me why their names are on my, "Toggle Recap", window so often. While rare and often silly, I find that social gatherings like this - especially between enemies who should really be trying to best each-other on the virtual battlefields of Cyrodiil - are really what make ESO for me, and engaging with pleasantries with other players makes me feel really rather good. I sent a few /whispers to those players who had names without wacky characters that aren't on my keyboard, and each of the Covenant players who I spoke to seemed like genuine, lovely individuals, who were thoroughly amiable and wonderfully kind in our albeit brief verbal encounter.
So, this was, pretty much, what happened in Cyrodiil, and man - it felt good! Meeting with the enemy - might I add, skilled enemies, feared by my comrades, who could have deleted certainly me within an instant, (and eventually, my AD friend as well) - face-to-face, and them then allowing me and a fellow AD player to mess around with them, for me, was fantastically good fun, and a great way of subverting a little frustration that had arisen due to a very uneventful evening of PvP! What about you folks - do you have any memories of similar instances in Cyrodiil that you'd like to share?
Thanks for taking the time to read all of this, or at least skim over it - I'm aware that this post is boderline pointlessly long. All the same, thank you for visiting this thread, and have a great weekend everyone!
"One fine day in the middle of the night. Two dead Kings got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their bows... and stabbed themselves...".
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Lore_lai✭✭✭✭✭It's nice that you found these ppl in Cyro, OP!
Honestly, my partner and I do this all the time but sadly what happens 80% of the time is said nubie plays friendly with us until 15+ of his friends show up then he turns around and zergs us.
So be a good sport and show these people the same courtesy when you run into them next time.
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Exalted_Goose✭✭✭✭notimetocare wrote: »Ha! You suck!and by you suck, I mean I am glad you are having fun!
Hahah, thanks mate! To be honest, I suppose that it is a little dire to get more enjoyment out of messing around with other players for a short space of time than actually doing what I'm meant to be doing, (probably because I am indeed not the best ESO player, to say the very least ), but thanks for your kind words! It's nice that you found these ppl in Cyro, OP!
Honestly, my partner and I do this all the time but sadly what happens 80% of the time is said nubie plays friendly with us until 15+ of his friends show up then he turns around and zergs us.
So be a good sport and show these people the same courtesy when you run into them next time.
Will do mate, I've already tried to show some courtesy when I actually play PvP properly with these DC fellows. I see one of them quite often across Cyrodiil, and usually, we spend a lot of time hammering each-other, (with him almost always coming out on top, unless I have something like 50+ other players helping me), but we now have this little gimmick where we'll bow to each-other's corpses if we're bested . Also, sorry to hear that you and your partner get obliterated when the guy you're friendly'ing with has his friends show up, but hey-diddle-diddle... ...at least they're being good sports initially! Thank you for your kind words! Edited by Exalted_Goose on April 8, 2017 11:30AM"One fine day in the middle of the night. Two dead Kings got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their bows... and stabbed themselves...".0 -
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Wonder what would've happened if an EP red would of showed up. lmaoEdited by TequilaFire on April 8, 2017 12:01PM1 -
MarkusLiberty✭✭✭✭✭I once ran into a couple of yellows inside a cathedral while exploring some insignificant part of Cyrodiil. We stared at each other for a while, triggered some emotes, and eventually heading off in each our direction.
This has happened a few times in dungeons too, lots of PVEers in Cyrodiil being all peace and love*Special Snowflake*1 -
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✭OP, that was awesome! Thanks for sharing that! In the future, should this happen again.. try and remember the universal behavior/code for "please.. please.. please don't kill me" is jumping up and down several times. Oh.. wait.. or is jumping up and down the universal sign for "please.. please.. please kill me now"? Darn.. I forget.. well, maybe try it out and see how things go? I always say "when in doubt.. jump it out!" 1 -
Serjustin19✭✭✭✭✭TequilaFire wrote: »Of course, yellow and blue.
Wonder what would've happened if an EP red would of showed up. lmao
I got you covered. That's me with flute. The only red.
However OP, I'm glad for you. Keep doing well. There are a lot of friendly's out there. In the vast, wilderness of Cyrodiil. You just have to search for them. Just be careful. For example most won't attack me when I'm alone. But when I do attack, even by self. It's kinda a warning be on high alert.Formerly Serjustin19, Save for Forum Of Course.... Fiery_Darkness (PC NA) currently.1
