Hi, I'm Ninesilver again. Im here to cause chaos, to cause order, to
distinguish right from wrong. Im here to bring illumination and
enlightenment and logic to everyone, to make things more known and
understood better. Otherwise, I'm just here to confuse and bother you.
*cackle*

I feel i am intervening with this post with the previous subject at
hand.. but I must say what I must say..

I hear a lot, and I mean quite a lot of lip about certain skills a
certain Guild has, ever since I started to Arena Spar. And I found out
the similarity of what people don't like, and what they overlook. Here
are some of the things I hear.

"I'm not going to just waltz into your vibes"

"I only lost because of your cheap vibes"

"It's unfair. If he didn't have those animals/entities, he'd be so
weak."

"When you stop hiding behind your vibes, maybe I'll come and fight you."

That's what I get a lot. That's what I hear a lot, I usually catch funny
comments much like:

'They hide behind their vibes";'They hide behind their groves"
'They hide behind their entities/animals"

Who is really hiding? Us or you?

The Logic: This whole subject is about 1 complete skillset.

We don't hide behind our skills because we are afraid of you, you hide
from us because you are afraid of our skills.

If you can tell /me/ to stop hiding behind my vibrations, then I can
sure as Hell(ick) tell /you/ to stop hiding behind your devotion, stop
hiding behind your mentis, your envenomed, affliction causing weapons,
whatever skillset you have that you rely on for fighting. Then you will
say, "No! I need that to fight." But you know what? So do I, I will hold
up a crystal and say, "I need /this/ to fight."

If you're going to tell me to fight you without a complete skillset of
your choice, I'm going to tell you to fight without one of your own as
well. Don't tell me that my vibes are unfair, because if I didn't use
Crystalism, then it would give /you/ a big advantage. And people don't
go through life with a big advantage all the time, they go through one
with a lots of disadvantages.

Yes, we /can/ be weak without one full skillset, just as much as you.
All skills have an advantage and disadvantage. And if youre going to
call it unfair, it's unfair to us, the ones who are so called, 'hiding
behind' things. Because you /don't/ need to have things out in order to
fight. You have all of your skills in your pockets when you want to pull
them out and use them. And we're the defenseless ones because we need
our skills /out/ and /ready/ or else we are dead. That's what makes us
vulnerable. We have to lug our skills around and keep them alive, or
else they leave us. And it isn't that easy to get all of them ready
again. It's actually difficult and takes quite long. That is your
advantage, and all I want to do is have a fair spar, and use both of my
guild skillsets.

So go ahead and walk into my vibes and fight me, because if you're going
to hide from a Mages Crystalism forever, I'll tell you one thing, if you
were out on Landmarking Season, it would get real ugly if a group of
Magi decided to Landmark and were on the opposite side, because we have
very good manipulation for rooms. We would be very good landmarkers. And
you would either be stranded on land or dead in the water.

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Nother thing I'd like to bring up. Deal with me here im trying to save
some money! ^.^

But we, the Magi, do not Landmark. We are above it like our Guildhall
floats above land. It causes killing, pain, hatred, death, destruction.
I don't like it.. I don't know why people come to the realm to deal out
death.. Maybe its fun for you, maybe you get something out of it, but
not for me, and not for a lot of the people I know.. We want to reach
level 99 and become a dragon!! We want to sit and talk and be content,
learn new and interesting things, and go on adventures, to be at peace
without worrying about whose out to kill us, whose out to steal the
experience we worked so hard for to get.

I know some of you believe in big changes, you /want/ change, you
believe that destruction and change is for the good of the realm. I
believe in change, I want change, but destruction should be the last
resort of change. You believe that destruction will grow and become
better, but when it concerns living individuals who have feelings, and I
also mean the consaguine, individuals that are living and walking among
this beautiful land, you turn around and say, 'Well, its for the better,
the individuals don't matter, they'll get over it, they'll reproduce and
grow again.' But you have no feeling for us, you do not have Human
emotions, Xoran, whatever race you are, you do not feel pain or anguish
or you otherwise ignore it. This realm might grow from destruction and
change, but the things that live and walk and have beautiful minds in
this realm will ungrow, and you will push each and every one of us down
into the ground, force it upon us because you don't think that we are
good enough. "Let's see some change/destruction around here. Uncreate to
recreate". Why do you want change? For the better, maybe? Because this
is not for the better of the things that walk and have emotions, and
choices. You are the ones who hurrah death, hurrah destruction, you
believe that these things are for the better. But they are not. They are
not. A god may raise his hand and desecrate this land and say it is for
the better, but he will be inhuman and insensitive, because he cares not
for the things that live there and have feelings. That /may/ be for the
good of the realm. But not for the things that have feelings within it.
That will be the worst.. for us, for everyone and everything we care
about.

So no.. We don't like your game of Landmarks.. We do not like your game
of good versus evil, and we do not like to make enemies. Our intentions
are, not to be cruel or hardhearted, but the very opposite. We do not
like to cause pain, because pain can turn into hatred and hatred can
cause one to raise their fist and kill another, and then killing and
death will cause others pain, and it will start all over again, and
over, and over. This is why we do not like your game of good versus
evil, we do not like Landmarking or killing people for kicks, or for
stupid reasons, or just because they said something offensive to us.
There is nothing to gain by it, and if there is, there is always loss
following right up ahead.

I like games that I have fun with, that make me happy and laugh and
learn too. I keep playing that game.

I do not like games that cause me pain and hatred all the time. I will
only suffer more and cause more suffering to others if I keep playing
it. I will stop playing that game, that game is no longer a game to me.

Life shouldn't be like that either, that is why I avoid Landmarking as
much as I can.

I call Landmarking a game because you fight with each other until your
side prevails at the end. I guess it just seems like a game to me. Work
hard and win at the end. But there never is an end. The end will only be
the beginning of another Landmarking Season. Another beginning of
suffering. And I am neither a masochist nor a sadist.

Speaker of Truth,

Ninesilver

Penned by my hand on the 15th of Khepary, in the year 88 MA.