Post by gregory on May 19, 2007 13:36:01 GMT -5
The general sentiment around here is that the BBB doesn't exist anymore or, at the least, that those who claim the BBB name now are a different group than those who called themselves Bastards during the First and Second Sieges of Blackmore.
I was there for both official sieges, and I've never given up my badge or changed my group affiliation. For me, the Blackmore is home. I go there whenever there isn't some great, interesting plot afoot that needs people willing to die for the cause - like the action in Yagoton a few weeks ago.
The Blackmore is kind of a training camp where survivors learn how dependent we are on each other for survival and discover just how effective well-organized survivors can be in a siege. The lesson we learned in the First Siege was that a sufficiently organized group of survivors CAN hold off a mob of zombies more or less indefinitely. That siege only ended because an even MORE organized (and huge) army of zombies showed up.
Holding the Blackmore requires discipline. Quite often, you log in and see 5 zeds inside with the doors open, and if you panic and run or go against your training and shoot before barricading, survivors WILL die. The only way you can preserve the Blackmore from the undead is to barricade, even though you know it moves you higher on the "recently active" list the zeds generally use to pick their targets. If you die, but the Blackmore survives, someone will revive you. If you run or forget your training, the Blackmore might fall, and if that happens, all the zombies who are busy battering on it are now free to wander around the suburb. More zeds wandering the streets means it's more likely they'll find and eat you, and there will be no needle-wielding Bastards left in the Blackmore to revive your under-disciplined rear end.
I'm often defending the Blackmore, and I see that kind of discipline all the time. To a certain extent, the Blackmore simply doesn't attract the kind of people who run away as soon as there's a break-in. If you're in the Blackmore, you're there because you're looking for danger and therefore do not fear death. Let's face it - we're pretty much here just to piss off the RRF and other zombie groups, and when they take the time to be pissed off, they bring armies against us.
Defending the Blackmore from countless break-ins and near break-ins is a ludicrous enough trial for ANY group, so if you want to call yourself a Bastard, that's fine by me. You won't be the only person out there with the BBB as your official group affiliation. As far as whether you can use the BBB badge on your wiki page, I didn't design it, so I don't feel like I have any say in how it should be used.
I was there for both official sieges, and I've never given up my badge or changed my group affiliation. For me, the Blackmore is home. I go there whenever there isn't some great, interesting plot afoot that needs people willing to die for the cause - like the action in Yagoton a few weeks ago.
The Blackmore is kind of a training camp where survivors learn how dependent we are on each other for survival and discover just how effective well-organized survivors can be in a siege. The lesson we learned in the First Siege was that a sufficiently organized group of survivors CAN hold off a mob of zombies more or less indefinitely. That siege only ended because an even MORE organized (and huge) army of zombies showed up.
Holding the Blackmore requires discipline. Quite often, you log in and see 5 zeds inside with the doors open, and if you panic and run or go against your training and shoot before barricading, survivors WILL die. The only way you can preserve the Blackmore from the undead is to barricade, even though you know it moves you higher on the "recently active" list the zeds generally use to pick their targets. If you die, but the Blackmore survives, someone will revive you. If you run or forget your training, the Blackmore might fall, and if that happens, all the zombies who are busy battering on it are now free to wander around the suburb. More zeds wandering the streets means it's more likely they'll find and eat you, and there will be no needle-wielding Bastards left in the Blackmore to revive your under-disciplined rear end.
I'm often defending the Blackmore, and I see that kind of discipline all the time. To a certain extent, the Blackmore simply doesn't attract the kind of people who run away as soon as there's a break-in. If you're in the Blackmore, you're there because you're looking for danger and therefore do not fear death. Let's face it - we're pretty much here just to piss off the RRF and other zombie groups, and when they take the time to be pissed off, they bring armies against us.
Defending the Blackmore from countless break-ins and near break-ins is a ludicrous enough trial for ANY group, so if you want to call yourself a Bastard, that's fine by me. You won't be the only person out there with the BBB as your official group affiliation. As far as whether you can use the BBB badge on your wiki page, I didn't design it, so I don't feel like I have any say in how it should be used.