How Not To Handle A Potential PK

[casualUcalegon]

[Warning for having a typing qUirk like a proper person does]

I didn't have a very active role in this, mind, bUt at one point dUring my first session one of the players flipped his shit and declared his intention to mUrder the fUck oUt of Us. Don't ask me aboUt what he was normally like, since there were only two people in that session I actUally gave a fUck aboUt and he wasn't one of them. I don't even remember his Role.

In any case, oUr GUard in tUrn declared her intention to mUrder the fUck oUt of him before he mUrdered the fUck oUt of Us and I got dragged into it. She dragged half oUr players into his land, me inclUded, with nothing more than basic weapons and Untested psychic-resistant helmets. Mid-way throUgh the trip there she discovered that he had not, in fact, killed her boyfriend's dreamself like he said he had bUt decided to go ahead with the crUsade anyway.

NatUrally, it tUrned into a clUsterfUck. An attempt opening a locked door with explosives and a flamethrower ended with me at the bottom of a pile of players. Not even a minUte afterwards we all discovered that resistance to mental manipUlation is a far cry from immUnity and I discovered that it really fUcking hUrts to have a red-hot flamethrower nozzle pressed against my chest.

Also, apparently charging weaponless at a psychic armed with a laser dagger is a good idea in some people's heads.

In any case, the clUsterfUck was completely pointless. One of the other players I don't care aboUt talked him down in a properly pale way and we never got oUr poUnd of flesh oUt of the deal. Literally the only thing we did was get thrown into a wall by an explosion and get fUcked aroUnd with mentally.

Let's have it for teamwork, folks!

[bluesunnyday]

Woo fucking Hoo!

Dealing with a PK is a major pain in the dick.

I got a rampaging Lord of Space. He kept Portal Cutting everyone. Didn't even use Off With His Head, just made a portal around their neck, and then closed it. It was a fucking massacre.

In the end, I had to unload my AMS MiniDerringer into him at point blank range. For a solid minute. Most Just death in the fucking world. And even then, I doubt the paste resulting from being hit point blank with a shower of Magnum ammunition would have managed to reform in the first place.

Long story short, killed my girlfriend, killed my best friend, killed my little bro, absolutely had it with that guy.

Also, I may or may not have proceeded to use up all my ammo turning the paste of that former Space player into even MORE paste out of sheer anger.

[casualUcalegon]

[Rangoooooon]

Are U trying to one-Up me or something? Ha! U got nothing on me.

Ur signatUre says Ur a PKK? How loose of a definition of PK are U Using?

[bluesunnyday]

Players that kill other players. Simple as that. Honestly, I haven't run into a lot. That's why the tally's only 3.

[casualUcalegon]

Does that inclUde extenUating circUmstances? Self-defense? MysterioUs accidents that are actUally jUst accidents? Blind panic?

One of the emergency threads is aboUt a gUy being hUnted by his coplayers becaUse they think he's going to Heart them Up. If they sUcceed, do they coUnt? What if he kills them instead?

[bluesunnyday]

Well, what I really meant was the people who do it for sport. Like some sort of demented Zaroff figure. I kill all sorts of PKKs. I only COUNT the ones that did it for no good reason.

[gracelessUprising]

A PKK, hm? Do you call yourself the ~Terror of Death~, dearie? (I'm sorry. I'm a dot-hack fan. I had to make the joke.)

[bluesunnyday]

Heh. But yeah, I mostly go after PKKs. Turns out Guards of Life are pretty well suited for hunting those guys down.

[tenaciousTheseus]

Okay. See. This? This is how you do not handle a PK. Like Casuca said, there's a lot of extenuating circumstances, and people who kill other people with malice are actually really rare. Death is not always a good punishment, either. Everybody depends on everybody else, and killing one can bring down the whole session.

[bluesunnyday]

Look, I only get the ones who do it out of malice. I remember one guy who literally did it because he thought we were "Kill stealing". For the most part, I try to avoid killing people who're doing it because of, say, Questant's Lament.

[cutthroatcanadian]

BS, You seem to be acting unrationally as a loose cannon of hatred. desist, so that YOUR madness does NOT ovetake you and you BECOME one of THEM

[repentantPrimogen]

cC, contain yourself
Sunnyday: people much more competent than I can give You guidance on what is acceptable in this community
killing the Player Killer can be a way, but only in extreme circumstances that You seem to understand
nevertheless, please abstain from radical measures if possible