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No; PACHUKA's levels did not suck. They were extremely enchanted and creative, especially considering the extremely low quality of tools & experience anyone had at the time (1998/early 99). He had an uncanny way of turning mischief & chaos into an interesting aspect of the game itself.
PACHUKA & Azrael wore their own heads that they had made their self; these heads were inaccessible, again, as mentioned earlier (to compete I claimed the thief head, but anyone could access it and at the time I always thought his devil helmet was SWEEET). They wore clothing no one else could get, horses no one else could have, guild tags featuring their names and carried NPCs that followed them which gave them an in-game godlike presence, mystique, & power (especially considering there were only 20 other heads to choose from, 5 horses, and a certain number of clothes color combinations available).
At the time, the game was pretty peaceful and full of strange levels & quests to learn from—but very occasionally (once or twice a week, if that) PACHUKA & Azrael would be online, and all hell would break loose; they would carry a leafy floor tile and other bizarre NPCs that setoff bombs that randomly built up and blew up the entire levels they were in, arrows shooting everywhere, auto-kills, sword of death, etc.
He ended up not liking me during his administration; I found out ways to hack the sword of death, 20 full hearts, etc. and was perhaps the only person to ever PK him during his peak of mischief where he was nearly invincible.
During the end of his reign, he released a ton of new creative levels to the southern map and things were really beginning to lookup for Graal; he made a very strange quest to collect "the black Graal", and wrote a poem to lead the way. At the time, he was the only person with the black Graal and truthfully the only person ever with the real black Graal; it followed him around and when he threw it killed everyone in the room.
I searched for the black Graal & analyzed the poem (which was actually quite good), but to my knowledge that b*stard made it unobtainable. I finally found it in some of the offline levels once the latest levels pack was released, which was after he left; and I recall at one time heckling him about the black Graal—for some reason me & him would heckle each other from time to time & chase each other around while I battled his administrative powers with hacks—and he claimed only he could get it. In a sense I suppose we were frenemies; I claimed myself the "God of Gravity" and he claimed I was not a god—to which I informed him in fact I was (and Galen gave me the guild tag to prove it)—and on various occasions this dude actually blasted me in the official Graal news on graalonline.com.
A year later I replaced his southern map with Destiny & proved that in fact I was indeed the 7th god—the God of Gravity. At this time we had become actual friends rather than frenemies online before his whole spout with California justice.
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