User:Glflegolas/Battle at Glflegolas' Fortress

The Battle at Glflegolas' Fortress was an event that occured on the One Ring Server at around midnight UTC, on the 17th of November, 2014 (8 PM Atlantic Standard Time, November 16) There were actually two battles, the first of which occured around 0000 UTC, and the second of which occured around 0015 UTC.

Events
Prior to this battle, I had been fighting a Mordor Invasion in Ithilien, along with about seven archers and five soldiers. In time, another player allied with the Rangers of the North, who called himself "King_Aragorn_II" teleported to me and lent me a hand to slay these foes. After the battle, me and my men fast-travelled back to base camp. However, the excitement had only begun....

About five minutes after I got home, a player who went by the IGN "BazedCreature" offered to teleport to me. He didn't appear to be a threat, so I allowed him to do that. He came to my base and admired it. I got on top of the battlements of my fortress and looked at him for a while. Eventually, he disappeared and walked behind a cliff. I didn't think much of it, so I just went on doing my usual things in my base (drinking, eating, enchanting, etc.)

After doing this stuff, I went back up to the roof of my fortress. Someone allied with the Dwarves offered to TP to me, and I did not refuse. He walked out my door, and I followed. Pretty soon he was intently studying my Wargskin rug.

Then it happened. BazedCreature came around the side of the fortress and swung -- allegedly at me, but because there was considerable server lag, I happened to be back inside my fortress (unintentionally; I didn't know he was there until my Dwarven companion began to get bet up. The reason I had gone back inside was to scan the area again from the rooftop) and he "accidentally" hit the Dwarven player instead. Despite the enchanted Dwarven armour he wore, it was no match against someone with Protection III diamond armour armed with a Sharpness IV diamond sword, and he was soon dead.

After that, the Dwarf complained that he had been TP killed. In fact, as revealed by my records, he had TP'd to me about 90 seconds before he got beat up, so it technically didn't count as a TP kill -- although, BazedCreature was told to give back the stuff that he had taken from the Dwarven player.

King_Aragorn_II heard all about this exchange and told me via private chat "if you see BazedCreature, give me a shout. We'll take him down together." I agreed and put BazedCreature on my hitlist. In the meantime, I decided to go for a walk around Gondor near my base. But then I remembered BazedCreature, and I quickly summoned my units back around myself just in case things turned nasty.

After a brief walk around Gondor, I went back to my base once more. I was just about to log off when BazedCreature showed up -- he had made a custom Fast Travel point near my base (against server rules) and was standing in front of my door (he could not get in, because I had a banner on the roof of my fort, and he had +0 Gondor Alignment). He said "if you log out that's combat logging." I promptly went up to the roof of my fortress and alerted King_Aragorn_II about what was going on. Meanwhile, I shot at him a couple times.

When Aragorn showed up around 0015 UTC, he quickly began shooting with a Flame I bow, and I took a few more shots at him with my Gondorian Bow. Within a few arrows, he had burnt to a crisp. I took the items he dropped and debated what to do with them -- in fact, I was considering keeping them as punishment. However, the server owner (~Dragon) solved my dilemma by saying that I should return the items, which I did do (the diamond armour was pretty beat up anyways). However, he did warn BazedCreature that, should he repeat this, he could be faced with a temporary ban.