The story about that time the enemy faction didn't kill me (Thanks Moonlight Hunters)

inthecoconut

TL;DR at bottom

I'm a new player and the game is intimidating. I don't know why I thought it was a good idea, but I decided to go to the Imperial City because I saw the announcement about extra Tele Shard things. I had no idea what they were good for. Still don't. But double of any currency is probably worth my time. So yeah, I went there. Not right away of course, because it took lots of googling to figure out that the Imperial City is located in Cyrodiil which didn't help much because I had no idea where that was either. Boring story and many hours later, I'm finally in Imperial City playing Ebonheart which is very much my luck because I guess Ebonhearts suck at everything and everyone knows it, except me, because if I did know it I would have been like everyone else and picked a different faction.

But now I'm invested and lucky for me, I find a few other clueless people who also didn't get the memo about not playing Ebonheart in Cyrodiil. So our rag tag group tries to take a few flags because apparently that attracts more of the Shards or whatever. We take one and then get trampled by a sea of blue badges that filled up my entire screen. Not wanting to fatten the blue whale that killed us once already, we try our luck in the sewers. We painfully collect a few shards, and then someone suggest we kill Molag Bal.

I didn't know what a Molag Bal was but killing it had to be more fun than picking shards out of dead rats and feces, and I'm being told there's a chance you'll get some skin that turns you into a Daedra zombie or something. So we head to the center which ended up being much further and more difficult to get to than I originally realized because who bothers looking at the map anyway. And also because Daedra don't outlaw steroids which leads to super omega powerful Daedra that get their jolly's by slowly trudging through the sewers with that slow serial-killer-pace from the cliche horror movies. We ran into these guys more than we should have and I don't know why we thought we could kill Molag Bal if his henchmen were killing us, but its obvious I didn't give any of this much thought from the beginning when I hit "purchase" on steam.

So here we are, finally at the center, and since my luck only likes to only be accompanied by the word "***", there were of course 20 or more players from one of the enemy factions already there blasting through Molag Bal like a soggy sneeze through one-ply tissues. Before we knew it, we were surrounded by a hive of yellow, but unlike the ravenous whale up top, they didn't kill us right away, and we didn't bother attacking because even we knew there was no point. To our surprise they still didn't attack, and instead they moved to make a path through their cluster, leading up to the portals we needed to destroy in order to kill Molag Bal. It was like the golden gates themselves had finally opened to allow us passage.

They stayed back and even helped us pick off some of the Daedra. After we killed Molag Bal, the yellow went back to swarming around the portals that was it. They just let us go. So there is my very long winded story about how an enemy guild didn't kill us and instead helped us kill Molag Bal. I think they were called the Moonlight Hunters. It was probably the strangest encounter I've had in my month of playing, but it was also one of the most enjoyable.

TL;DR
I stupidly went to Imperial City after only playing the game for a few days and a huge enemy zerg helped us kill Molag Bal.

Nova Sky

Players who are new to ESO are absolutely adorable in their innocence.

Glad you had a good experience (mostly) in the Imperial City!

Orjix

I got a good picture for this but I can't figure out how to post it.

inthecoconut

Nova Sky wrote: »

Players who are new to ESO are absolutely adorable in their innocence.

Glad you had a good experience (mostly) in the Imperial City!

Innocent might be one word to describe it, but I think I was just downright stupid to go there when I didn't really understand the first thing about the game But yes, it was fun!

Orjix wrote: »

I got a good picture for this but I can't figure out how to post it.

If its on your computer, I don't know how to upload them on here either but now I wanna see!

AlnilamE

That is an awesome story.

Welcome to ESO!

And no, the Pact doesn't suck at PvP, but you may have picked the wrong campaign for your alliance.

Jusey1

Depending on what you're doing, enemy faction players may generally just ignore you. While I was skyshard hunting in Cyrodiil, most enemy faction players I came across left me alone (though they're usually just by themselves or in a group of two or three) so I usually safely assumed that they were also doing their own thing and didn't care about me at all.

Also, the Pact is the dominant force in the current campaign I go to. The Ebonheart Pact usually controls every single fortress on the map, or most of them, and the Imperial City just fine. So it depends on the campaign you go to.

Feanor

It's nice to see decent players are still in the game. When I meet a player in Cyrodiil who is low level and runs instead of attacking me I usually let him go. Granted, some come back with 20 EP friends then. But mostly I think 1,5k AP are not worth the poor feeling stomping a new player.

OutLaw_Nynx

This was a nice read.

Megabear

Reminds me of Christmas truce of World War 1, also depicted in film "Joyeux Noël".

Arkangeloski

Loving it!

inthecoconut

Jusey1 wrote: »

Also, the Pact is the dominant force in the current campaign I go to. The Ebonheart Pact usually controls every single fortress on the map, or most of them, and the Imperial City just fine. So it depends on the campaign you go to.

AlnilamE wrote: »

That is an awesome story.

Welcome to ESO!

And no, the Pact doesn't suck at PvP, but you may have picked the wrong campaign for your alliance.

That is good to hear! I was on Kayne (I think that's how you spell it). Which ever one is the <lvl 50. And we are consistently stomped by both the blue and yellow guys. At least until their bed time, then we take everything back while they are sleeping.

SquareSausage

I laughed, good read.

Krissalsa

I still post this story in my guilds discord from time to time This was when Moonlight Hunters first started up and brings back great memories! Thank you for writing this up and posting it on the forum! -GM Moonlight Hunters PC/NA

zaria

Was in an guild run doing quests in Cyrodil and had politic not going after solo pve players.
The sneaking guy was an kick, he was sneaking past us thinking he was not seen probably impressed of his own sneak skills
Almost an shame some did not do an LA on him then past group just to ruin his illusion.

And you had the lady next to an town quest giver, might have an disconnect as going Afk there in an enemy town is pretty stupid. Anyway we was picking up quest then she came back.
Note then surrounded by 8 enemies and still alive, do not attack.

r34lian

Feanor wrote: »

It's nice to see decent players are still in the game. When I meet a player in Cyrodiil who is low level and runs instead of attacking me I usually let him go. Granted, some come back with 20 EP friends then. But mostly I think 1,5k AP are not worth the poor feeling stomping a new player.

You my man deserve a cookie !

UntrustedExistenz

Nice to see that this post was raised from dead. Didn't read it back then, turns out it's a great story. It was really enjoyable reading. Thanks for sharing

We had similar situation on IC. Were on run with friends (both was first time there) then we needed be afk.
We parked our chars on side (something with rest in name, had chairs and bookshelves). One on us turns back from afk and encounter enemy player who saw us, saw that we are afk and just sitting on chairs, wave on us and just go.
My friends was shocked that some players don't want frags on afk players (which is sadly normal in other games).

BrokenString

Many times in Cyrodiil while I was questing I /wave enemy players and they waved back and carry on with what they were doing. This is awesome!

Mr_Walker

When I'm doing PvE stuff in PvP (and let's face it, most of the areas you do that in, other people are doing them same), I slam block up to signify peace, and prob 60-70% of the time others do the same.

Too many people think they need to ruin other peoples day to have a good time.

It's PvP in any game really. It attracts a disproportianal number of tossbags.

rabidmyers

hell yeah

max_only

This 2017 necro deserves another good turn.

Last week I was finally binging the Imperial City quest for the first time. I stealthed mostly and squeezed through unscathed. Then it was time for Arena. I went in and I saw someone fighting the Daedra, they were on a named enemy so I shot at the npc from stealth and then ran up and started stabbing it. It was an Ebonheart player and as soon as the boss died I put up block and backed away. They advanced on me a few times and I just kept backing up. When the quest npc appeared to call me under the Arena I scampered away lol. I should have taken a screenshot, he was wearing something similar to the Stag-heart Skull Sallet. Thank you EP player for not killing me. I just wanted to help the Drake of Blades.

Fluke.Slywalker

Read this twice, great short story! Post more!