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A customer organization lawsuit for mercs!

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Pandora's box
Pandora's box
Jungle Guide
• #1
Playing a mercenary... Doing quests on request? Beware, there are people who dont consider the quest-offer a contract. Terms may be changed while playing! Sadly enough even prince Rurik himself does not respect the conditions he signed for himself

Whats this about? You agree to free some prisoner. You did your job. Do you get the reward? No! The allmighty employer Rurik simply anounces to continue to free some more guys. Da Hell, and my reward? Will it be raised? No, we are expected to do more work for the same reward. Not once, not twice, but countless times. Me and my band would like to say: Rurik, $#&* off! First the reward, than talk about new orders, for a reasonable extra award! Or we leave you in the middle of nowhere alone... Well thats no option. Because that leaves us without any income: our wives and kids would starve and without a doubt Rurik will magically find the way back himself

Even common men offering quests are starting to follow the bad examples of this so called prince more and more. Terms change while fighting, I'm getting home later and later, this is slavery! Mercenaries unite! Lets call for a lawsuit against those how offer us quest-contracts which are not in good faith!
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Communist Robot
Ascalonian Squire
• #2
Don't worry, rurik gets whats coming to him soon, Karma you know?
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Eclair
Desert Nomad
• #3
Heroes don't get paid, why do you think they all need day jobs?
Teh Azman
Teh Azman
Frost Gate Guardian
• #4
There are 3 kinds of people in this digital world, good, bad and those who deserve to have somebodies fist plow right through their face. Rurik is a perfect example of #3
Aetherfukz
Aetherfukz
Academy Page
• #5
The fluffy explaination would be: Rurik is Prince of Ascalon so (at least he thinks) he has the god-given right to command you. All the other minor questers like Villagers and stuff see in you the aspiring Champion they themselves will never be, and ask you do do favors for them they could never do. As the hero of the story of course, that's what you do anyway day-in, day-out. ^_^
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sybban
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #6
I didn't want to help in the fight against the white mantle, but they made me. I'm a slave to the system!!
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Kershent
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #7
You fight the white mantle because your people need you! All of you are selfish jerks! You're helping these people, and if you really only do it for the reward, then I pity you, for you are the lowest scum on the face of Tyria. These people offer you all they have to you to help them, because nobody else can. And what to you do? You WHINE because they didn't tell you everything they needed upfront!

Go take your whining somewhere else, where it won't fall on deaf ears.

/roleplaying

P.S. Rurik means well, jerk!
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sybban
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #8
I'd rather kill all of them

/not roleplaying
Sekkira
Sekkira
Forge Runner
• #9
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kershent
You fight the white mantle because your people need you! All of you are selfish jerks! You're helping these people, and if you really only do it for the reward, then I pity you, for you are the lowest scum on the face of Tyria. These people offer you all they have to you to help them, because nobody else can. And what to you do? You WHINE because they didn't tell you everything they needed upfront!

Go take your whining somewhere else, where it won't fall on deaf ears.

/roleplaying

P.S. Rurik means well, jerk!
But that's what Merc's are all about. They don't have any morals, they're in it for the money.

Also I doubt the character you play is a Mercenary. You joined the academy to become one of Ascalon's soldiers. So you ARE under direct command of Rurik and the King. You also happen to be the best of his soldiers, so you're like an elite swat team or something.
Dagbiker
Dagbiker
Frost Gate Guardian
• #10
if you dont have to help, infact you could boycot, but the story kinda depends on you pertisipating in moving your but.
Edge Martinez
Edge Martinez
Jungle Guide
• #11
I wish the story branched so you had the option of going against the mantle and eventually ascending (the way it is), or working with the Mantle and their gods and gaining power while not ascending.
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sybban
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #12
Or do nothing and watch the world fall apart, I like that one better
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NoirQ
Ascalonian Squire
• #13
i always wondered what happned to Ascalon, and the Charr. It seems everyone just stepped in some snow and forgot all about them, for ever! even the heroes of the story! I was invested in the characters!
ArgentLupe
ArgentLupe
Ascalonian Squire
• #14
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sekkira
But that's what Merc's are all about. They don't have any morals, they're in it for the money.
Everybody's in it for the money. Mercs are just honest about it. Besides, what's more moral? Keeping to a signed contract between two willing parties, or involuntary conscription by the crown?

/continuing roleplay
origin boudine
origin boudine
Ascalonian Squire
• #15
Touche

This is why a ranger prefers the company of their pets.... Your pet will not expect anything more than you can give. Unless you are out of Melandru chow.

ManadartheHealer
ManadartheHealer
Desert Nomad
• #16
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArgentLupe
Everybody's in it for the money. Mercs are just honest about it. Besides, what's more moral? Keeping to a signed contract between two willing parties, or involuntary conscription by the crown?

/continuing roleplay
There is more money in being a contract killer than a mercenary
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Kershent
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #17
Quote:
Originally Posted by NoirQ
i always wondered what happned to Ascalon, and the Charr. It seems everyone just stepped in some snow and forgot all about them, for ever! even the heroes of the story! I was invested in the characters!
Remember, you helped Rurik take the citizens of Rin, which had just been destroyed, away from Ascalon, the Charr, and King Adelbern. It can be assumed that many citizens in Ascalon still fight the failing war, but it can also be assumed that many would follow Rurik's lead, including those who know that the Charr have won, i.e. the other heroes of the story. So, you pretty much have a bunch of people still knee-deep in Charr, and a bunch of people fighting desperately to free their new home of the grasp of the White Mantle. You fall into the second group.
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eagle26
Banned
• #18
Quote:
Originally Posted by Communist Robot
Don't worry, rurik gets whats coming to him soon, Karma you know?
karma is in next lifetime.. so its not karma
Jackell
Jackell
Krytan Explorer
• #19
I stole Rurik's lunchbox in Elementary school and blamd it on the Charr.

I don't think he ever got over it.
Phauran
Phauran
Ascalonian Squire
• #20
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pandora's box
Playing a mercenary... Doing quests on request? Beware, there are people who dont consider the quest-offer a contract. Terms may be changed while playing! Sadly enough even prince Rurik himself does not respect the conditions he signed for himself

Whats this about? You agree to free some prisoner. You did your job. Do you get the reward? No! The allmighty employer Rurik simply anounces to continue to free some more guys. Da Hell, and my reward? Will it be raised? No, we are expected to do more work for the same reward. Not once, not twice, but countless times. Me and my band would like to say: Rurik, $#&* off! First the reward, than talk about new orders, for a reasonable extra award! Or we leave you in the middle of nowhere alone... Well thats no option. Because that leaves us without any income: our wives and kids would starve and without a doubt Rurik will magically find the way back himself


Even common men offering quests are starting to follow the bad examples of this so called prince more and more. Terms change while fighting, I'm getting home later and later, this is slavery! Mercenaries unite! Lets call for a lawsuit against those how offer us quest-contracts which are not in good faith!
you are my hero, i spilled my mountain dew, cause of this i was laughing so hard