Well, met Mon'Star in Dresden. And i had not a scratch afterwards. Not even on my shield. Oh and yes, i was lv40+.
Oh and yes, that comes because i ran. Single Bomber against Necrosis? No go.
In a brilliant tactical movement, i charged backwards.
I killed him once back in NY on my LPI bomber in 84
This was before the new, improved FLHook that gave death messages. So it was just "Death: Necrosis-Mon'Star has died"
D:
Zealot Wrote:Just go play the game and have fun dammit.
Treewyrm Wrote:all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.
Ive seen you with a custom looking ship. Very scary. You nearly killed me as well!! I escaped but was badly damaged ;). And when I first got on, a few hours in you had an OC dessie which I hadn't seen before and I was circling you for a while as you owned the Navy.
It's interesting that a single player can instill so much arbitrary fear in the entire population of a system, causing them all to flee.
I haven't been playing much at all, (A few days) but I still somehow learned that Mon'star was something you wanted to avoid like the plague. I don't know where I heard it from, but somehow I just... knew.
I was playing a few days ago, in New York, trading about end doing what it is that a Junker does when He suddenly appeared in game. I was on my way to Buffalo base, so I thought "Brilliant, I'm safe in the Badlands." The worst happened at that point in time.
Mon'star was at Buffalo.
My wireless mouse also decided that this was the opportune time to act up again.
I docked at Buffalo quickly, sold my cargo, and undocked, so I could make exodus as switfly as possible.
Needless to say, I was a sitting duck during my slow, paralyzed arc through the badlands and away from Buffalo. In the middle of attempting to get my mouse to work, I froze as I passed this strange ship... that was destroying everything in its path except for me.
I was happy that I survived my first encounter, unscratched my Mon'star. (But damaged by the Badland asteroids...)
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In my opinion, there need to be legends on a server.
There should be intereactive, overarching plot elements and recurring character that make you feel like you're really part of something. Having a crazed criminal like Mon'star is, I think, what a server needs. It's a random event that can bring enemies together in exodus and pull friends together in pointless last stands against the Fiend Himself.
It might be silly, but who said this is inherently serious? Sometimes the best villains are the ones who are incompetent and have a staff that does everything, or ones with an inferiority complex, or those who randomly kill everything in sight while laughing manically. Sometimes the best villains aren't the ones you take seriously - they're the ones you can laugh at - or with - as you get your entrails ripped out of you, or the ones who you can merrily chortle with as they launch a thousand missiles at you. They're the ones that you don't really mind getting killed by, it's so ridiculous. They're the ones that make the game more fun and interesting than it already is.
Despite how "cliched" he might be and how silly it might seem, there's certain things you need, certain things to bring a community together, certain things to pull the game together and break the monotony.
And I am quite sure that Mon'star is this certain thing - a crazy, evil, random criminal who spams with missiles and lays waste to entire galaxies between breakfast and elevenses.
So, in my humble opinion, Mon'star is an almost vital element to the role-paying in the game.
And I look forward to the next time we meet. Maybe he'll kill me, and maybe... just maybe... I'll escape and live to tell about it.
Haha, my official first encounter with Mr. Cannibal was in Leeds.
This is what happened:
I was on my Planetform character, and we just got done dealing with a Kusari Merc on New London, So we head to Leeds to finish our trade run. While I was still in the gate, my friend said "BACK UP!" I wasn't aware of what he was talking about until I undocked to a giant ship staring at me, saying "Ah there you are." To which point I started to get shot at, So I went back through the gate freaking out. I'd have to say, getting away from Mon'Star actually got my adrenaline flowing.
So. Mr. Cannibal, keep up the good work...had me scared crap less.
The VERY VERY First time I even heard of Mon'Star was when I was on my Kusarian in New Tokyo, I remember some random trader talking about a Terrorist. I asked him who and well, that was when Mon'Star jumpped into New Tokyo, where I hide 50k off the plane, for the entire hour he was on a rampage through New Tokyo.
I still have yet to meet him personally, but as sprolf's brilliant post outlined he already had a certain feeling of fear built in my mind at the mere mention of his name.
I have to say- he and phate were the two most common names I heard when I started freelancer, and it was only until recently that I met phate. I have yet to meet mon'star and as things continue, I'm hoping it remains this way.
Hakatoa Yamota, Fuku-Honbucho in the Black Dragon Society