The Scribe - 8/10/06

The Scribe

No, I'm not in it, even for my work in helping newbies in The Deep and Urgoz's Warren. I'm quite surprised (considering many people thought I was a shoo-in). The Scribe really needs to stick her head outside of the main cities sometimes.

Ah well.

I, of course, love the irony that The Scribe fails to mention the normal method of entering the Elite Missions...newbies are going to be very, very, confused.

Did you read the entire thing?
It talks about Sardelec, which is in no way a main city.

I was refering to the "Random Acts of Kindness," which always contains players in Lion's Arch, Shing Jea, etc.

I'm not even going to contemplate the lore flaw that was present in the Urgoz/Deep section (how exactly do you talk to Mhleno at Sardelac Sanitarium if he out killing both White Mantle and Shiro? Then again, that's a lore flaw in itself.)

Delusions of grandeur ? Its a little much to expect your name to come up in this, regardless of your actions.

It isnt a Flaw (On either count).

Mhenlo never kills White Mantle and Shiro at the same time. The Factions storyline takes place (time line wise) during your initial visit to Lion's Arch. Many just ASSUME (wrongly) that Factions takes place after Tyria's storyline, when infact it is in the middle of it.

Also for someone that has beaten the Lich, It is safe to assume that with the troubles over that the Heros of Ascalon would return home - so of course Mhenlo would have taken back over his responibilities at the Sanitarium.

Wow.

Isn't the reward in what you do and not what people say about you?

Acknowledging the efforts of helpful people in the game is great in concept, but the way the Scribe chooses to do it is...well, not really representative of the true game environment. There are TONS of people who help in all areas of the game, not just the main cities. Those people have zero chance of being recognized. Even within the main cities, the chances of being noticed by the scribe are slim to none. I myself spend alot of time helping new people in Ascalon City. I do it because I want to, and I don't desire recognition, although I have been told numerous times that I deserve it. I always help via PMs, because it is far easier. Maybe I am wrong, but don't most people help via whispers? The Scribe obviously can't see whispers between people, so that eliminates a whole chunk of people even within the large cities.

Its not a lore flaw, its progression in the storyline..

Mad the scribe because you were not mentioned out of the other hundreds of people who help everyone daily?

It also comes down to where the scribe is and what he sees when he is on.

everybody wants their 15 minutes

half of the time you were making your witty remarks and calling everyone "newbie"

we all just need to remember that the scribe exist to enchance the Role playing feel to the game that it solely lacks on its own and providing detailed information is not its primary but rather secondary purpose.

Enjoy it if you find the Lore entertaining, disregard it if you feel otherwise.

From what I see, the scribe only notices people who are obviously "kind" (yelling across LA to the guy on the other side via ALL chat), or people that he goes and "hangs out" with.

Maybe that is because the scribe doesn't have the time to question everybody in an already spammy town.
Anyway, people who expect a reward for their kindness, are not kind at all. Most acts of kindness go unnoticed.

That's why they're called "RANDOM acts of kindness" - there's lots of luck involwed in getting mentioned, just because they can't track all the good deeds.

Fixed for you.

This is the truth.

Unfortunately the advent of the scribe has brought about people who give away things, help others in all chat, etc. purely to get noticed. But at least people are getting helped, so why complain?

Maybe if its recognition (and attention) that you desire, you should only help people in these cities. Make sure to preceed any helpful comments in All Chat with "ATTENTION SCRIBE, ITS ME, I'M HELPING SOMEONE NOW".

I think its extremely unfair to criticize the Scribe for not recognizing the apparent greatness of you; one player among hundreds of thousands. That would be like if the New York Times had 5 employees and people got mad because they didn't cover a story about a cat stuck in a tree on Long Island.

What! They didn't write about Fluffy?! This is outrageous, they must be sued!

Cats aside, I wasn't putting down the scribe, I was making a point. If you want to get noticed, yell helpful looking messages in Lion's Arch or Shing Jea. I doubt this Monk (they told us this much) can read minds, or whispers of others for that matter.

Maybe the Scribe plays an A/Me, got kicked out of an elite mission group, and now holds a personal grudge against you. He probably has a little post-it note attached to his screen saying "Do not mention Syria Blackblood in future articles".