Originally
posted by
ZIP:
ok so now that danger went b00m... what was this over again?
a rager was 47 hrs between hits and that being a r0r you killed it?
ZIP!
I BELIEVE SAM ALREADY OUTLINED THIS IN SOME OTHER THREAD, BUT SINCE YOU BRING IT UP, AND MAKE A WRONG ASSERTION IN YOUR ANSWER TO YOUR OWN QUESTION, I FEEL I SHOULD SUMMARIZE THE FACTS HERE AS WELL:
1. A RAGER MADE AN UNPROVOKED ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST A MEMBER OF THE MIGHTY CLAN [DANGER]!
2. THE MIGHTY CLAN [DANGER]!, AS STRICT ADHERENTS TO THE WAYS OF VIOLENT PACIFISM, NEITHER COMMIT NOR ACCEPT UNPROVOKED ACTS OF AGGRESSION. WE DISAGREE WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT PEOPLE IN OTHER ALLIANCES ARE ENTITLED TO THE LAND THAT WE HAVE WORKED TO ACQUIRE.
3. SAM, WHO WAS APPARENTLY IN AN UNUSUALLY MAGNANIMOUS MOOD THAT EVENING, LIKELY BECAUSE HE HAD JUST ENOUGH SAM ADAMS TO BE MELLOW BUT NOT ENOUGH TO BE BELLIGERENT, EXPLAINED TO RAGE OUR POLICY, AND GIVEN THAT THEY SEEMED UNAWARE OF IT, COUNSELED OUR MEMBER WHO HAD BEEN SO AGGRIEVED TO TAKE ONLY ONE RIGHTEOUS DEFENSE ACTION, EVEN THOUGH THAT RESULTED IN A NET LOSS FOR OUR MEMBER. OUR MEMBER COMPLIED.
4. 1.5 DAYS LATER YET ANOTHER RAGER STRUCK THE EXACT SAME MEMBER OF THE MIGHTY CLAN [DANGER]! BY TYPICAL STANDARDS, AN ORDINARY VIOLENT ALLIANCE WOULD CONSIDER THIS AN "RoR" -- GIVEN THAT WE HAD ALREADY EXPLICITLY EXPLAINED THE WAYS OF VIOLENT PACIFISM TO RAGE, AND HAD OFFERED THEM A NON-EXPLOSION-PACT, WHICH THEY BY THEIR ACTIONS REFUSED TO RECIPROCATE, THIS WAS TANTAMOUNT TO AN ACT OF WAR. YOU SEE, AS A FIVE-MAN ALLIANCE, WE HAVE COME TO RECOGNIZE CERTAIN PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR FROM LARGER ALLIANCES WHO FEEL ENTITLED TO TAKE OUR LAND BY FORCE, AND VIEW IT AS IMPORTANT TO NIP THOSE BEHAVIORS IN THE BUD.
5. THE OFFENDER WAS SUMMARILY EXECUTED, AND AN IMMEDIATE OFFER OF A CEASE-FIRE WAS MADE. RAGE CHOSE NOT TO ACCEPT THAT OFFER, AND INSTEAD REPLIED WITH MORE VIOLENCE. APPARENTLY THEY DISAGREED WITH THE PUNISHMENT HANDED DOWN BY THE COMMITTEE OF ONE!
HA!
BILL
ASSISTANT UNDERSECRETARY TO THE CHIEF EXPLAINER
THE MIGHTY CLAN [DANGER]!