07 - Trials and Tribulations...

[Experiment187]

The Black Council Rites of Passage were designed in order to determine whether you were sound enough to compete within a league of proven elite... I didn't know what the qualifications were to be in THE WHITE COUNCIL... As far as I knew and could see everyone over there was always preaching about love and respect towards fellow gamers and a bunch of other Hippie Crap...

I guess this is where part of my true to life personality engaged and translated over into the game for the first time. Long before my experience with that Foreign Paris Hilton suitor on Street Fighter... I was already a rather aristocratic personality with a charmed life of my own.

Lets just say it... I was born with a silver spoon in my ass ! Long story short I never even got my first job until I was 23 years old because my family simply always had money... even then it wasn't a necessity. During my LOTR days I was bringing home $ 1000 dollars a week, driving a $ 47,000 dollar car... and had already owned my own home by the time I was 30. And I would get up on the mic in these chat rooms and brag about it !

I was the Perfect Son of A Bitch... Who else would anybody out there rather take down other than me outside of Bin Laden ?

I'd been popular and ridiculously Good looking ( So they say ) my entire life... Dated soap actresses AND Playboy models alike... In fact my entire entourage was good looking ! I never had any overweight or unattractive friends or any friends that you could assign any negative attribute to for that matter because I hand picked all of these associates in life JUST LIKE I hand picked every BAD ASS in The BC.

The difference here was that there was little opportunity here for me to be a shallow ass. Everyone involved in this facet of my life would not be scrutinized for any possible shortcomings in their own personal lives... but rather completely accepted based on their individual talents and stand on their own merit.

Furthermore and I mean it when I say this... If I were to meet any one of you today in person, you could be the ugliest fuck tard walking... but I'd still call you my friend. Because that was a very cool time of my life and I met quite an interesting lot of people while I was there so... Thanks for that.


The BC test was simple enough... NOT really. You were required to get 10 kills vs ME in a first to 15 1 v 1 match...

Of course I believed in chivalry so ladies were only required to achieve 8 kills... That having been said it should come as no surprise to anyone that when it came time for Foxii911's test we settled on a kill count of.... 9

You were allowed to use ANY class you wanted HOWEVER.... though some previous matches had been held in THE SHIRE... you would now be facing my LURTZ at the BLACK GATE... with Me HOSTING the match... Truly an impossible task to succeed at.

I received a countless number of requests from upstarts who wanted to try their hand... some of which I accepted... Many others I declined and told they were being taken into consideration. When in all reality I knew they simply didn't stand a chance. All too often matches ended with a score of 15 - 5.

I knew WHO I wanted to be a part of this group... but there were moments I was really concerned whether certain ones would have the ability to overcome the amount of adversity I would be raining down upon them.

I had been # 1 on the boards a number of times already and had logged more hours than almost any player alive at that point... so I couldn't think of a more suitable challenge for would be recruits than to challenge their would be Leader 1 on 1.

On a side note... I would see all these clans with " LEADER " designations posted on their bios over the course of the game, but I never once nominated myself leader of THE BLACK COUNCIL. People just kinda started referring to me as such.

True enough I did create the property and concept of the group with borrowed ideas along with my own ingenuity that culminated in the most memorable ERA in all of LOTR Conquest... Sure I'll take the credit for that

And near the end times I did eventually post Leader on my bio merely because so many had come to revere me as that entity.

Several weeks in to the whole coup I might add... Many were actually under the impression that GOOGILY was the Mastermind behind the whole thing. And THAT is yet another tale to be told...

[[BC]-DAOA-Mayhem]

Feb 10, 2012 2:41:18 GMT -5 Experiment187 said:

The BC test was simple enough... NOT really. You were required to get 10 kills vs ME in a first to 15 1 v 1 match...

Of course I believed in chivalry so ladies were only required to achieve 8 kills... That having been said it should come as no surprise to anyone that when it came time for Foxii911's test we settled on a kill count of....

LOL! I believe Foxi also volunteered to judge the "Walk Off"

I remember my auditions as by far - BY FAR - the most heart pounding moments of my gaming life, haha. And this comes from someone who's duelled all kinds of top PC and PS3 archers. I wasn't the archer back then that I am today but even so, it would still feel like being in a brutal cage match.

Experiment would always rush forward from spawn using the middle tents as cover and just charge straight towards you. Especially being from the UK - it was nearly impossible to stand up quickly on his server. I remember well a 15 - 2 drubbing!

My final audition for BC happened quite late in the game's history. I think probably in February 2010. We agreed to do the match on a public server and I remember to my surprise being 12 - 10 or 13 - 10 up, which at the time was a 'holy shit' occurence. I put it down to Darthjimmy and the knowledge of that map I gained from the hours we would spend duelling each other. Anyhow, at that point Experiment activated God mode and pulled out five straight kills in a row to make the score 15 - 12 or 15 - 13.

I think Onde had a few auditions that morning. I think she managed 10 but I was rather suspicious you had gifted her the last one, lol. I now understand chivalry meant she had already qualified haha. Actually she failed her first audition that day; then I managed to pass and she was furious - FURIOUS - with a terrible jealous rage! I was mercifully relieved that she succeeded soon after.

That was around the time of the great Frederick episode and a certain person taking a day off work to prevent him becoming top of the leaderboards, lol.

[cainreaker]

I think i did auditions with each class. The scout didn't go as well as I had hoped thanks to a certain someone's magical television and ended up becoming a game of "Flee from the floating flame running at you". Hilarious.

[slayerx999187]

forgot about having to do this haha..was a good time though

[mime999]

I remember being a little peeved at first about the NAMING of the "Black Council." Only because the White Council wasn't suppose to be a "clan", but more of a United Nations-esque propriety. Where no matter what clan you were in (Fellowship, Mordor, Ace, Resistence, SOR, Etc...) you could be apart of the Council and either set up 1vs1's against other clans or wars, and be able to say afterwards "Good Game". While in retrospect I can see how this could seem "hippy" I was more hoping to bring the community closer.

This was all in theory however and NEVER came to be what I wanted it to be, otherwise I would have liked to have taken the naming of the Black Council as more of an homage I suppose.