Here is the Cease & Desist Letter I received after my first Fellowship Spire Challenge (which is mentioned in the "Childe Konka" Episode). This is SO not made up, totally real and you can trust me utterly of course*:
Ebonknight01
It has come to our attention that you are intentionally setting up "challenges" that encourage (and even celebrate) the wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of minions that defend the Spire.
Our employees that defend the Spire understand the risks, and we pay them handsomely in the discharge of their duties. We provide them with medical, dental, & (of course) life insurance. We are prepared for an approximate loss rate of about 40%, but what we are NOT prepared for is the complete wipeout of multiple Spires from one Fellowship! Our records indicate that 6 full Spires experienced a 100% mortality rate from You, Konka, Billbo, Lcflee, Eldessa, & Madjaws.
This is unacceptable from a business standpoint, but more importantly, this is unacceptable from a morality standpoint. How could you Ebonknight? Those tens of thousands that were slaughtered left behind tens of thousands of spouses & children. How can you sleep at night?
Let this message serve as official notification that we are hereby ordering you to cease & desist from any future challenges that encourage death & destruction on such a large scale. If you think our hordes can be tough, wait until our lawyers get ahold of you. Murderer.
"Blank" Games
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* = Yeah, don't trust me at all
Anyways, that is the letter I received, and it was very chilling indeed! My Fellowship though, to their credit, stood behind me 100% and I wanted to post a few of their replies since they are much more levelheaded and normal than I am. No shocker there, right?
From Konka:
Well, I say "Let's do it again!"
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(OK maybe Konka is a bit of a hothead too, granted)
From LisaMV:
WOW! and UH-OH!
You can tell them that the Professional Pacifist that only brings gifts to all is in your Fellowship, so that may balance things. Also, you can tell them that I am watching you now so maybe they won't as much.
Between this and MadJaws as our new King of Conquest for Tourney Mage, we will strike fear in the hearts of fellowships worldwide!
(...and do we need to start some sort of legal defense fund...? Rainbow? Do we have budget for this?)
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(Yeah so, she might throw off a little bit of the "world-domination" vibe to some, but she's nice, I swear!)
From MadJaws:
phew... at least they didn't find all the prisoners I made to serve as slaves and build my own pyramid.
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(Hmmmm, well Madjaws is just flat out terrifying, I really can't defend that statement in good conscience honestly)
From Rainbow9213:
I say we are a force the likes of which "Blank" Games is not quite prepared to deal with..Lawyers "smh" smallyers...I have set up both spire and tournament malpractice insurance so slaughter away my dear ones, let us show them all our "Maximum Effort".
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(See? Our Archmage is reasonable at least...right? erm /cough)
From Eldessa:
I like to dance in my enemies' blood when I finish a battle on the Spire. And for those boss ghosts, I dance in their ectoplasm. mwahahaha =D
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(So. Don't know what to say to that actually. Maybe I am in the perfect FS for me after all?)
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The next Spire Interview Episode titled: "
Week 4: Childe Zhopel to the Spire of Eternity Came" will be posted on Sunday. The quotes as attributed above were all taken word for word from the responses by my guildies to the letter I received back on May 27th. I play with awesome peeps all the way around!
Ebon
Maximum Effort Spire Mage