Mud's first experience in the DAOC Battlegrounds

[Mudhoney]

DAOC speak (I'm still learning):
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Nail (eld) and I (mana enc) ported out of DL to BG. Nail told me to turn off torch. We ran across HB and found hib had CK. There was no-one nearby, so we checked out Alb PK and Mid PK. A friendly hib appeared who thought we were albs and was about to gank us. We kept checking - not a soul anywhere to be seen. We decided to leave. Nail decided the quickest way was to run straight at the alb pk and let the fire wizards single shot us. I killed my caster pet and summoned a healer pet, just for kicks. Just as we were about to run up to the alb pk, a red++ mid inf troll appeared from nowhere and mezzed (I think?) Nail. I tried to cast my stun but he interripted twice and came after me. He kept stunning and melee'ing - bad move. I kept running and my pet kept healing me. I couldn't see behind me but all the while I guess my pet and nail were wailing on him. I nearly made it to the river, but he caught me with a snare that finally stuck and I died. About 1s later, nail took him down. In retrospect, I should have quickcast a stun then pbaoe.

Ordinary Human Version:
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We teleported out of the Hibernia realm into the realm-vs-realm entry-level battleground. Starting at our keep, we ran across a bridge to the central keep, which Hibnernia was holding at the time. Nail told me to turn off my night light as it was making my face glow like a giant neon target. We came across one other friendly hibernia player who nearly mistook us for enemies. We all scouted around but couldn't find any action at all. We decided to leave. Nail reckoned the quickest way was to suicide by charging the albion keep, which is defended by computer-controlled players. I killed off my summoned creature and summoned one that specialises in healing me and my group. Just as we were about to charge the albion keep, a higher-level midgaard invisible player appeared and cast a spell on nail that put him to sleep briefly. He then decided to go after me. He kept casting stun spells which mostly didn't seem to work, while chasing me and bashing me with his axe. My pet was continually healing me, keeping my health around 1/4 most of the time. I tried to run to the river, where i thought the summoned creature would get the better of him, but he snared me before I got there and killed me. I guess while this was going on, the pet would have been attacking him as well as Nail raining death on him. All the time, Nail was screaming "RUN RUN RUN IN CIRCLES AHAHAH". Shortly after I died, Nail killed the attacker. I realised later I should have used slightly different tactics and we might have taken him down much earlier.