June 6, 2001 #lumcorps (IRC)
{20:30} <@da_slog> LUm
{20:30} <@da_slog> server crashed
{20:30} <@Lum_> I’m playing ww2 offline
{20:30} <@Lum_> jesus this is bad
{20:30} <@Lum_> this is derek smart bad
{20:30} <@da_slog> need some tips?
{20:31} <@da_slog> Gameplay isnt that bad
{20:31} <@Lum_> how the fuck do I FIRE A GODDAM RIFLE
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June 11, 2001 lumthemad.net
BMQ is Brad McQuaid of SOE/Verant. Itzlegend and Gtath are members of Conquest.
BMQ:
Hello,After our first statement regarding the Conquest guild issue, several things happened. First, I began a dialog with two members of Conquest (the leader and an officer). Second, I began a very detailed investigation of what occurred. Third, the public interest in this situation continued with both public posts and well as emails to various Verant employees.
The following is a lengthy email exchange between me and the two guild members, and I’m releasing it (with their permission) as sort of a second, more definitive statement, in that much of the feedback we received and read indicated that many players were not satisfied with the depth (or lack thereof) of our original statement. That and, after further investigation on my part, there were a few errors in the original statement I wanted to clear up.
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March 5, 2001 lumthemad.net
Lum the Mad:
The Verant Spin Patrol was out on the Whineplay hustings, trying to make sense of the delirium, with Abashi playing bad cop and Absor playing, um, other bad cop. First, from Abashi, comes this explanation:
June 5, 2001 lumthemad.net
Lum the Mad:
After an upgrade to the Velious uberzone “Sleeper’s Tomb”, Conquest on Lanys devised a strategy for beating the “boss mobs” that involved chain-resurrecting group members. After killing the 4th warder, “the sleeper awoke”. Unfortunately, the game wasn’t ready for the sleeper to wake up yet. So surprised Conquest members saw a raging human placeholder. (If you break something in EQ you see the default human animation instead of whatever is supposed to be there). Throughout Velious on Lanys fragmented story events sort-of happened as it became really obvious that a very ambitious, and very incomplete quest sequence was firing off. Sort of.
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