Three Way KVK - Where the Enemies are Friends and the Friends are Enemies

The Old Gods had made their announcements regarding the upcoming KVK. No Death, Must Kill Alpacas and it being a three way event, had intrigued me. Three way KVK could be easy if you get some weaker opponents or a waking nightmare if you match with 2 difficult enemies.  Either way, we would be at an extreme disadvantage. We are a tiny Kingdom with 6 decently strong players. Add to that our HHH friends were busy and would not be available, Vegeta had time constraints and so did Lady Sam. For my part I was not prepared to live in the game for 24 hrs, so early on I had accepted our inevitable defeat. I would however be looking to have some fun and  maybe get into some friendly fights if I could find them. Yes, I would need to be killing the dang alpacas too. As the enemy Kingdoms were announced we got to see who our opponents would be. Kingdom 397 

and Kingdom 507

507 sounded like a newer Kingdom but Fdh is a known strong alliance, and 397 was a neighboring Kingdom. 397 even had a member from UTB, but one that I don’t particularly care for. Even still, I would respect what I knew my alliance leader would expect and try to avoid my teammate. We decided to go to 507 for our castle watch to try and spawn Alpacas.

Early on, ICU’s own Pollack from 397 started making his presence known. Hopping Kingdoms like he was in witness protection, and taking castles. You can tell he had a mission to win. I debated letting him know he didn’t have to work that hard, but decided against it. He likely wouldn’t believe me anyways lol. I was tossing my extra troops into open castles in an effort to get rid of the troops that won't help me in a fight (i.e everything but my inf) I figure it was win win, I would generate points and if someone killed them, that is less troops I gotta hide if I get attacked. Attacking me there makes me harder to beat later. Muah hahaha

Skeeter got some early action, getting rallied several times…

I was bored in the castle and exhausted from adulting all day. I just had to hold the enemy castle an hr right? Then kill Alpacas and go to bed. Except that was not right lol. It was 2 hrs… 507 had someone I had known for sometime. An old Teammate from my NFI and later FFS days Krylax.

He kept me company for a bit as we caught up. We made a plan to meet up the next day to have some friendly fights, FOR SCIENCE, of course. The alpacas had finally came; 

Bzh, Vegeta and I all began an endless litany of rallies. Pollack had also come for our Alpacas. At first it was no big deal since I assumed due to 3 way kvk, his killing may count for us too. But that is not how it worked lol. The more he killed the more we had left to kill. At some point, it became clear, I wouldn’t complete it tonight.  I was too tired to hold something for another couple hrs with less and less help as the time ticked away. It made more sense to kill the last 20 tomorrow.

The next morning, I came back to the game, wondering if anything fun was happening. I greeted Krylax as I began to check on all my littles. I noticed some had been attacked on the nodes. I rolled my eyes. I know some players feel anything is fair game, but sorry not sorry a player looks weak in my eyes when they do it unless they are a brand new account. Seriously once you hit a billion power, if you are clearing nodes for merit, you need to learn how to fight a real fight.  Krylax had also had his littles hit off nodes. The culprit was the same, the alt of my teammate from my alliance… The one dark cloud of an otherwise friendly map. I did make several statements that weak accounts that can't fight,  tend to hit nodes in the world chat… No regrets, no one that has ever been around me would find it to be a spicy take. The dark cloud that was my teammate tried to get our group in trouble with UTB leadership by playing victim and omitting their part. Folks that throw a rock then hide their hand and play victim are one of my personal pet peeves. I got annoyed but did my best to ignore him and have some fun, but I would be lying if I didn’t say, people like this are why I am having an existential crisis with my alliance… Yall know how sometimes you just wish Karma would bless you with a front row seat to her show…As Krylax and I were chatting, my teammate decided he was gonna show he was prepared for a real fight. As an inf specialty, he had set his sights on Krylax, a spearman and launched an attack. I was not even aware of it, until Krylax shared the report…

Yall I dang near peed my pants from laughing so hard. Thank you Karma, love ya girl lol! 

Luckily the loss seemed to humble my teammate and he melted away from the event. This left the grownups of the game to have a bit of fun… Slowly more and more of the big players gathered in our makeshift spot. Fighting wise it was somewhat of a stalemate. We were all too big to solo, none of us had the ability to fill a rally so it was either do some friendly fights, or twiddle our thumbs… We chose violence. Lol. 

Everyone was friendly, if we took a lord we released it. It allowed us to test line ups, defenses and was a fun way to kill the time. When Nebula and I fought, we turned out to be an amazing match up. Full disclosure, I think their account is objectively better than mine. Yet our fights were pretty even. When I attacked I got the lord.

When they attacked me, they got the lord.

Pollack did a small rally on me allowing me to test my defenses. I think I would have been in trouble if he had a full rally. He is strong and he counters me.

Krylax, I had rallied. A strong spear who humbled me lol. Despite me rallying and me countering him, the match was too close with me barely winning. 

We kept going this way for a while and I enjoyed learning more about where I should improve. Honestly, these are the moments I love in this game. Where players who should or could be enemies can just be decent humans, no ego and enjoying a bit of fun. Not allowing the minutia of an occasional loss to ruin a good time. Sure we all love to win, but to find moments of joy even when you can’t win is a skill not enough of us have. After many weeks of boring or the occasionally impossible kvks, it was nice to not concern myself with winning and just to enjoy good times with good folks. Even the dark cloud that tried to rain on our parade, couldn’t stop the sunshine. I would not be surprised if after the events of KVK, there will be some changes coming down the pike for me. Stay Tuned!