Post by Morreion on Apr 4, 2011 7:57:32 GMT -5
Feature: The Day Lord British Died (GameStooge)
Lord British was Ultima creator Richard Garriot's in-game character i9n UO.
...In this case, what happened was a player, who had previously butted heads with Origin over his gameplay, managed to steal a scroll of fire field scroll from a nearby player and use it on Lord British, never thinking he’d be able to kill the the character and then sitting there dumbfounded when he did! The player, “Rainz” re-tells the events in his own words:
The servers had just been taken down to prepare for the huge influx of players for the speech Lord British and Lord Blackthorne were giving throughout Britannia. When the servers came back up, I strolled through Britain with Helios, my fellow guild member. We headed to Blackthorne’s castle where the first speech was being given. LB, Blackthorne, and their jesters were up on a bridge orating to the masses. Unfortunately I wasn’t playing my mage character, so casting spells from a spellbook was out of the question. Luckily my character was a good thief who had high “stealing” skill. I desperately searched the backpacks of those around me and eventually came upon a fire field scroll. After that it was pretty simple, I just cast the scroll on the bridge and waited to see what would happen. Either LB or Blackthorne made the comment “hehe nice try”, can’t recall exactly who. It was a humorous sight and I expected to be struck down by lightning or have some other evil fate befall me. Instead I heard a loud death grunt as British slumped to his death. After that it was just pure mayhem, Blackthorne or another force summoned 4 daemons into the castle and people were dying left and right.
Garriott had forgotten to turn on his dev invincibility ability. Rainz was banned for other exploits before this incident. Now those were the days!
